11-letter words containing e, c, h, i
- chillicothe — a city in S Ohio.
- chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
- chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
- chimneylike — resembling a chimney
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- china aster — a related Chinese plant, Callistephus chinensis, widely cultivated for its showy brightly coloured flowers
- china stone — a type of kaolinized granitic rock containing unaltered plagioclase
- china white — a very potent form of synthetic heroin.
- chindonesia — China, India, and Indonesia: seen collectively as the most important developing economies with the best growth markets for investors
- chinese ink — a black pigment consisting of lampblack mixed with glue or size.
- chinese lug — a lugsail stiffened by battens and kept flat when hoisted: used in Chinese sailing vessels.
- chinese red — a bright red colour
- chinese tag — a variety of the game of tag in which the tagged player must hold one hand on the part of the body where he or she was tagged.
- chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
- chingtechen — Jingdezhen.
- chinoiserie — a style of decorative or fine art based on imitations of Chinese motifs
- chintziness — The quality of being chintzy.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- chip heater — a domestic water heater that burns chips of wood
- chip slicer — a machine or tool for cutting chips
- chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
- chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
- chisel plow — a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.
- chisellings — a series of chiselled or engraved markings
- chitchatted — Simple past tense and past participle of chitchat.
- chitterling — part of the small intestine of swine
- chloanthite — a form of nickel arsenide having commercial importance as a nickel ore
- chloracetic — an acid made by chlorinating acetic acid
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- chlorimeter — a device used to determine the amount of chlorine present in a preparation
- chlorimetry — the methods and procedures used to determine the amount of chlorine present in a preparation
- chlorinated — Chlorinated water, for example drinking water or water in a swimming pool, has been cleaned by adding chlorine to it.
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- chlorine 36 — the radioactive isotope of chlorine having a mass number 36 and a half-life of about 440,000 years, used chiefly as a tracer.
- chloroquine — a synthetic drug administered orally to treat malaria. Formula: C18H26ClN3
- chocolatier — a person or company that makes or sells chocolate
- choirmaster — A choirmaster is a person whose job is to train a choir.
- choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- cholecystic — gallbladder.
- cholestasis — the medical condition characterized by the inability of bile to pass normally out of the liver due to blockage or impairment
- cholestatic — of or relating to cholestasis
- cholesteric — resulting from the reaction of nitric acid and cholesterin and producing cholesterates
- cholesterin — a sterol, C 27 H 46 O, that occurs in all animal tissues, especially in the brain, spinal cord, and adipose tissue, functioning chiefly as a protective agent in the skin and myelin sheaths of nerve cells, a detoxifier in the bloodstream, and as a precursor of many steroids: deposits of cholesterol form in certain pathological conditions, as gallstones and atherosclerotic plaques.
- cholinergic — denoting nerve fibres that release acetylcholine when stimulated
- chondrified — Simple past tense and past participle of chondrify.
- chorus line — the group of dancers who perform routines in a musical