11-letter words containing c, u, s, h
- chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
- chauvinists — zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory.
- cheliferous — bearing chelae
- chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar
- cheque stub — the part of a cheque that is retained as a record of its purpose
- chequerwise — in the manner of a chequerboard
- chiaroscuro — Chiaroscuro is the use of light and shade in a picture, or the effect produced by light and shade in a place.
- chilaquiles — (in Mexican cooking) a dish of fried tortilla strips typically topped with a spicy tomato sauce and cheese.
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
- chili sauce — a spiced sauce of chopped tomatoes, green and red sweet peppers, onions, etc.
- chin cactus — any of various globular cacti of the genus Gymnocalycium, native to South America, having white or pinkish flowers and a chinlike protrusion below each cluster of spines.
- chinese lug — a lugsail stiffened by battens and kept flat when hoisted: used in Chinese sailing vessels.
- chinquapins — Plural form of chinquapin.
- chirrupings — Plural form of chirruping.
- chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- chorus frog — any of several small North American frogs of the genus Pseudacris, having a loud call commonly heard in the early spring.
- chorus girl — A chorus girl is a young woman who sings or dances as part of a group in a show or film.
- chorus line — the group of dancers who perform routines in a musical
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
- chuckwallas — Plural form of chuckwalla.
- chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
- chula vista — city in SW Calif.: suburb of San Diego: pop. 174,000
- chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
- chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
- churchgoers — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
- churchwards — in the direction of the church
- churchyards — Plural form of churchyard.
- chyliferous — containing chyle
- chymiferous — containing chyme
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- clutch slip — Clutch slip is a faulty condition in which there is not enough friction in the clutch, so that engine speed rises without a corresponding increase in road speed.
- coach house — a building in which a coach is kept
- coconut shy — a fairground stall in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off stands
- coffeehouse — an establishment that sells coffee and usually other refreshments and that commonly serves as an informal club for its regular customers
- conchylious — Archaic form of conchylaceous.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
- cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
- cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
- couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
- couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- cough sweet — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- cough syrup — Cough syrup is a liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- countershot — a sequence of frames seen from the perspective of the subject of the previous shot