11-letter words containing e, o, h
- ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.
- cushionless — without a cushion
- customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
- cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
- cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
- cyclohexane — a colourless insoluble flammable liquid cycloalkane with a pungent odour, made by hydrogenation of benzene and used as a paint remover and solvent. Formula: C6H12
- cyclohexene — (organic compound) A cyclic hydrocarbon containing six carbon atoms and one double bond; any of its derivatives.
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
- 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.
- de la roche — Mazo [mey-zoh] /ˈmeɪ zoʊ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1961, Canadian novelist.
- dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- death house — the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- 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
- 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
- dehydration — the act or process of dehydrating.
- dehydrators — Plural form of dehydrator.
- dehypnotize — to bring out of the hypnotic state
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- delightsome — highly pleasing; delightful.
- demob-happy — feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces
- demographer — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- demolishing — Present participle of demolish.
- demosthenes — 384–322 bc, Athenian statesman, orator, and lifelong opponent of the power of Macedonia over Greece
- dendroglyph — the art of carving in the bark of a living tree, esp as practised by the aboriginal peoples of New Zealand
- dendrophile — One who loves trees.
- dermography — a type of marking on the skin, whether in the form of writing or pictures, supposedly of psychic origin, similar to stigmata except for being more short-lived
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- diamorphine — heroin.
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diapophyses — Plural form of diapophysis.
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichlobenil — a nonselective preemergence herbicide, C 7 H 3 Cl 2 N, used primarily as a weed and grass killer.