11-letter words containing d, c, h
- closed shop — If a factory, shop, or other business is a closed shop, the employees must be members of a particular trade union.
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- cloth-eared — deaf
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- cohabitated — cohabit.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
- comedy show — a funny programme on TV or radio
- comprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprehend.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- cooch dance — a sinuous, quasi-Oriental dance performed by a woman and characterized chiefly by suggestive gyrating and shaking of the body.
- cool-headed — If you describe someone as cool-headed, you mean that they stay calm in difficult situations.
- copperheads — Plural form of copperhead.
- copyholders — Plural form of copyholder.
- copyrighted — Copyrighted material is protected by a copyright.
- crack hardy — to disguise one's discomfort, etc; put on a bold front
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
- cryptorchid — an animal or human in which the testes fail to descend into the scrotum
- cued speech — a method of communication in which a speaker uses a system of manual cues to aid a lipreader by clarifying potentially ambiguous mouth movements with hand gestures.
- curd cheese — a mild white cheese made from skimmed milk curds, smoother and fattier than cottage cheese
- cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
- cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
- dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
- daisy chain — A daisy chain is a string of daisies that have been joined together by their stems to make a necklace.
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- dante chair — a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- de la beche — Henry. 1796–1855, English geologist. His work led to the founding of the Geological Survey (1835)
- de la roche — Mazo [mey-zoh] /ˈmeɪ zoʊ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1961, Canadian novelist.
- death chair — electric chair.
- death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
- debauchedly — In a debauched manner.
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- decahydrate — a hydrate that contains ten molecules of water, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- decathletes — Plural form of decathlete.
- deccan hemp — kenaf.
- deciphering — Present participle of decipher.
- declutching — Present participle of declutch.
- decoherence — the process in which a system's behaviour changes from that which can be explained by quantum mechanics to that which can be explained by classical mechanics