11-letter words containing e, t, h, i, c
- checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
- cheese mite — a white soft-bodied free-living mite, Tyrophagus (or Tyroglyphus) longior, sometimes found in decaying cheese
- chelicerate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chelicerata, a subphylum of arthropods, including arachnids and the horseshoe crab, in which the first pair of limbs are modified as chelicerae
- chemiotaxis — Dated form of chemotaxis.
- chemisettes — Plural form of chemisette.
- chemistries — Plural form of chemistry.
- chemotactic — oriented movement toward or away from a chemical stimulus.
- cherishment — the act or process of cherishing
- chest voice — a voice of the lowest speaking or singing register
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chiastolite — a variety of andalusite containing carbon impurities
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.
- chieftaincy — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chieftainry — the area governed by a chieftain
- chilled out — relaxed
- chillicothe — a city in S Ohio.
- chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
- 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.
- 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.
- chingtechen — Jingdezhen.
- 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
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- 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
- 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.
- chocolatier — a person or company that makes or sells chocolate
- choirmaster — A choirmaster is a person whose job is to train a choir.
- 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.
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- chris evert — Chris(tine Marie) born 1954, U.S. tennis player.
- christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
- christening — A christening is a Christian ceremony in which a baby is made a member of the Christian church and is officially given his or her name. Compare baptism.
- christingle — (in Britain) a Christian service for children held shortly before Christmas, in which each child is given a decorated fruit with a lighted candle in it
- christopher — Saint. 3rd century ad, Christian martyr; patron saint of travellers