11-letter words containing e, a, r, t, h
- chromeplate — to plate with chromium.
- church rate — (formerly in England and Ireland) a compulsory assessment imposed on the parishioners' holdings of houses or land in order to repair the parish church and maintain its services.
- city father — You can refer to a member of a city council or city's government as a city father.
- cloth-eared — deaf
- coat hanger — A coat hanger is a curved piece of wood, metal, or plastic that you hang a piece of clothing on.
- cohortative — intended to encourage
- coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
- creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
- cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
- cryotherapy — medical treatment in which all or part of the body is subjected to cold temperatures, as by means of ice packs
- ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
- 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.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- death adder — a venomous Australian elapid snake, Acanthophis antarcticus, resembling an adder
- death chair — electric chair.
- death grant — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a grant payable to a relative, executor, etc, after the death of a person
- death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- decahydrate — a hydrate that contains ten molecules of water, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- deep throat — an anonymous source of secret information
- dehortation — an exhortation against a course of action
- dehortatory — intended to dissuade from a course of action
- dehydrating — Present participle of dehydrate.
- dehydration — the act or process of dehydrating.
- dehydrators — Plural form of dehydrator.
- dendrachate — a variety of agate with black or brown tree-like markings, caused by impurities
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- disenthrall — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disheartens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dishearten.
- dishearting — Present participle of disheart.
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- draw weight — the measured force, in foot-pounds, stored by an archery bow when fully drawn.
- dreadnaught — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- durum wheat — a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta.
- dutch treat — a meal or entertainment for which each person pays his or her own expenses.
- early night — If you have an early night, you go to bed early. If you have a late night, you go to bed late.
- earth auger — a drill for boring holes in the ground, as to tap springs.