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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.
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