11-letter words containing h, c
- bronx cheer — A Bronx cheer is a sound that people make by vibrating their lips in order to express disapproval or contempt.
- brood bitch — a female dog used for breeding.
- brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
- brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
- brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
- brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- bunch light — a light consisting of a group of small light bulbs mounted in a reflecting box.
- bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
- bur chervil — a plant of the carrot family, Anthriscus caucalis, that is related to and resembles chervil
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
- butt chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade less than 4 inches (10 cm) long.
- butt-cheeks — the flesh of the buttocks
- by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
- cabbagehead — cabbage1 (def 2).
- cache block — cache line
- cachectical — cachetic
- cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
- cachinnator — One who laughs loudly and immoderately.
- cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
- cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
- cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
- cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
- cactus moth — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.
- caddishness — the state of being caddish
- cadet cloth — a heavy woolen cloth of double-cloth construction and bluish-gray color, used especially for uniforms at military schools.
- caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
- cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
- caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- call a halt — to put an end (to something); stop
- calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
- callimachus — late 5th century bc, Greek sculptor, reputed to have invented the Corinthian capital
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
- cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
- camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
- camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
- camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
- camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
- camphorweed — vinegarweed.