11-letter words containing e, r, c, h
- cryptophyte — any perennial plant that bears its buds below the soil or water surface
- ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- curd cheese — a mild white cheese made from skimmed milk curds, smoother and fattier than cottage cheese
- cyberethics — Ethics in cyberspace.
- cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
- 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.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- de la roche — Mazo [mey-zoh] /ˈmeɪ zoʊ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1961, Canadian novelist.
- death chair — electric chair.
- death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- decahydrate — a hydrate that contains ten molecules of water, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- deciphering — Present participle of decipher.
- 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
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- dendrachate — a variety of agate with black or brown tree-like markings, caused by impurities
- derrickhand — A derrickhand is a member of the drilling crew who works on a platform above the rig floor and handles the drillpipe.
- 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.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- ditchdigger — a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
- 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.
- door charge — an entrance fee.
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- dutch treat — a meal or entertainment for which each person pays his or her own expenses.
- eames chair — Also called LCM chair. a side chair designed by Charles Eames in 1946, having a slender tubular steel frame with a seat and back of molded plywood panels.
- earth-color — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- ecclesiarch — a sacristan, especially of a monastery.
- echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.
- echo boomer — a member of Generation Y, born in the 1980s or 1990s; a Millennial.
- echolocator — An organism capable of echolocation.
- echotexture — (medicine) The patterning of echogenicity in a diagnostic image.
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
- ectomorphic — having a thin body build, roughly characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic ectoderm (contrasted with endomorphic, mesomorphic).
- ectothermal — coldblooded (sense 1)
- ectothermic — a cold-blooded animal.
- ectotrophic — (of a mycorrhiza) growing outside the root or between the cells.
- eichendorff — Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf), Freiherr von. 1788–1857, German poet and novelist, regarded as one of the greatest German romantic lyricists