11-letter words containing e, n, t, h
- bindheimite — a mineral, hydrous antimonate of lead, resulting from the alteration of lead antimony ores.
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- botheration — bother
- bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
- brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
- breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
- brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
- brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
- by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
- calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
- canned heat — fuel packaged to be used in small cans for heating, as with chafing dishes or in portable stoves.
- cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
- cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
- cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
- catarrhines — Plural form of catarrhine.
- catechising — Present participle of catechise.
- catechizing — Present participle of catechize.
- catechumens — Plural form of catechumen.
- catherine i — ?1684–1727, second wife of Peter the Great, whom she succeeded as empress of Russia (1725–27)
- cattishness — The property of being cattish.
- cenesthesia — the mass of undifferentiated sensations that make one aware of the body and its condition, as in the feeling of well-being or illness
- centerpunch — to mark with a center punch.
- centrarchid — (zoology) Any member of the Centrarchidae.
- centre half — a defender who plays in the middle of the defence
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
- chain grate — a type of mechanical stoker for a furnace, in which the grate consists of an endless chain that draws the solid fuel into the furnace as it rotates
- chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
- chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
- chain-react — to undergo a chain reaction
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- change feet — to put on different shoes, boots, etc
- chansonette — a little song
- chantefable — (in medieval French literature) a prose narrative interspersed with verse.
- chanterelle — any saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus of the genus Cantharellus, esp C. cibarius, having an edible yellow funnel-shaped mushroom: family Cantharellaceae
- chanticleer — a name for a cock, used esp in fables
- chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.