11-letter words containing h, a, g, n
- changelings — Plural form of changeling.
- changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
- changeround — the process of changing position
- channelling — Architecture, Furniture. ornamentation with flutes or channels.
- chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
- chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- charlemagne — ?742–814 ad, king of the Franks (768–814) and, as Charles I, Holy Roman Emperor (800–814). He conquered the Lombards (774), the Saxons (772–804), and the Avars (791–799). He instituted many judicial and ecclesiastical reforms, and promoted commerce and agriculture throughout his empire, which extended from the Ebro to the Elbe. Under Alcuin his court at Aachen became the centre of a revival of learning
- chattanooga — a city in SE Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: scene of two battles during the Civil War, in which the North defeated the Confederates, cleared Tennessee, and opened the way to Georgia (1863). Pop: 154 887 (2003 est)
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- chikungunya — A viral disease resembling dengue, transmitted by mosquitoes and endemic in East Africa and parts of Asia.
- chimichanga — a savoury deep-fried filled tortilla
- 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.
- chinwangtao — Qinhuangdao
- choir organ — a part of the full church organ, used for accompanying the choir
- cholangitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the bile duct.
- chord organ — an electronic organ having a small keyboard for the right hand and for the left hand a set of buttons each of which produces a full chord when pushed.
- chronograms — Plural form of chronogram.
- chronograph — an accurate instrument for recording small intervals of time
- chuck wagon — a wagon carrying provisions and cooking utensils for men, such as cowboys, who work in the open
- cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- coat hanger — A coat hanger is a curved piece of wood, metal, or plastic that you hang a piece of clothing on.
- coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
- coprophagan — a dung beetle
- coronagraph — an optical instrument used to simulate an eclipse of the sun so that the faint solar corona can be studied
- coronograph — an instrument for observing and photographing the sun's corona, consisting of a telescope fitted with lenses, filters, and diaphragms that simulate an eclipse.
- craniograph — an instrument that outlines the skull.
- crapehanger — a gloomy person; a pessimist
- crepehanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- death angel — Azrael.
- death grant — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a grant payable to a relative, executor, etc, after the death of a person
- deganawidah — ("The Peacemaker") flourished 1550–1600, Huron prophet, cofounder of the Iroquois Confederacy.
- dehydrating — Present participle of dehydrate.
- despatching — Present participle of despatch.
- dining hall — a large room in which meals are served to members of a special group and their guests, as to the students and faculty of a college.
- diphthongal — Pertaining to a diphthong.
- diphthongia — diplophonia.
- discharging — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dishearting — Present participle of disheart.
- dishwashing — the act of washing dishes.
- dispatching — Send off to a destination or for a purpose.
- dog handler — a member of the police force, a security organization, etc, who works in collaboration with a specially trained dog
- downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
- drag anchor — (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
- dragon-head — dragonhead.
- draughtsman — a checker, as used in the game of checkers.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- dreadnaught — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.