11-letter words containing d, c, h
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- preheadache — occurring before a headache
- preschedule — taking place ahead of schedule
- psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
- psychedelic — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
- psychic bid — a bid designed to mislead one's opponents that is not based on the strength of one's hand or of the suit named but rather on one's feeling that not bidding would be more costly.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- punch-drunk — (especially of a boxer) having cerebral concussion caused by repeated blows to the head and consequently exhibiting unsteadiness of gait, hand tremors, slow muscular movement, hesitant speech, and dulled mentality.
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
- radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
- ramachandra — the hero of the Ramayana, and a character in the Mahabharata.
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- rechartered — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- record shop — store selling recorded music
- red chamber — the Canadian Senate chamber.
- red channel — in an airport, the route taken by passengers wishing to declare goods, such as large quantities of tobacco or alcohol
- rhabdocoele — any member of the turbellarian flatworm order Neorhabdocoela, comprising both freshwater and marine species, having a simple saclike digestive system.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhynchodont — having a toothed beak
- richard hoe — Richard, 1812–86, U.S. inventor and manufacturer of printing-press equipment.
- richard iii — (Duke of Gloucester) 1452–85, king of England 1483–85.
- richard roe — a fictitious name used in legal proceedings for a male party whose true name is not known, used especially as the second such name when two male persons are involved whose real names have not been ascertained.
- road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
- roundarched — having semicircular arches
- rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- saccharated — sweetened
- saddlecloth — Horse Racing. a cloth placed over the saddle of a racehorse bearing the horse's number.
- sandwiching — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- sap orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- sapphic ode — Horatian ode.
- schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
- schizopodal — pertaining to a split-foot or appendage
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
- schoolchild — a child attending school.
- schoolwards — in the direction of school
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- schwarzwald — a wooded mountain region in SW Germany. Highest peak, Feldberg, 4905 feet (1495 meters).
- scratch pad — a pad of paper used for jotting down ideas, informal notes, preliminary writing, etc.
- scratchcard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- secchi disk — an opaque, white or black-and-white disk used to measure the cloudiness or turbidity of ocean water by the point at which it is no longer visible from the surface.
- second hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- second home — an additional residence, as at the shore or in the country, where one goes on weekends, vacations, and the like.
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game