11-letter words containing h, d
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clean hands — freedom from guilt
- cleanhanded — free from guilt
- clearheaded — having or indicating a clear mind; lucid; unconfused
- clodhoppers — a large heavy shoe or boot
- clodhopping — loutish; boorish.
- closed shop — If a factory, shop, or other business is a closed shop, the employees must be members of a particular trade union.
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- cloth-eared — deaf
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- cohabitated — cohabit.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
- comedy show — a funny programme on TV or radio
- comprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprehend.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- cooch dance — a sinuous, quasi-Oriental dance performed by a woman and characterized chiefly by suggestive gyrating and shaking of the body.
- cool-headed — If you describe someone as cool-headed, you mean that they stay calm in difficult situations.
- copperheads — Plural form of copperhead.
- copyholders — Plural form of copyholder.
- copyrighted — Copyrighted material is protected by a copyright.
- crack hardy — to disguise one's discomfort, etc; put on a bold front
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
- cryptorchid — an animal or human in which the testes fail to descend into the scrotum
- cued speech — a method of communication in which a speaker uses a system of manual cues to aid a lipreader by clarifying potentially ambiguous mouth movements with hand gestures.
- curd cheese — a mild white cheese made from skimmed milk curds, smoother and fattier than cottage cheese
- cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
- cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
- dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
- daisy chain — A daisy chain is a string of daisies that have been joined together by their stems to make a necklace.
- daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- 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.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
- danish loaf — a large white loaf with a centre split having the top crust dusted with flour, esp one baked on the sole of the oven
- 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.
- dark-haired — (of a person) having dark hair
- dasht-e-lut — vast desert region of central and SE Iran, extending southward from the Dasht-e-Kavir
- dasht-i-lut — a desert plateau in central and E central Iran
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.