11-letter words containing h, e, c, o
- chansonnier — a writer of chansons
- chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
- 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.
- chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
- charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
- charbroiler — a grill or other equipment used for charbroiling
- charioteers — Plural form of charioteer.
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
- chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
- chateauroux — a town in central France: 10th-century castle (Château-Raoul). Pop: 46 386 (2009)
- chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- checkerwork — a pile of loosely stacked bricks in the regenerator of a regenerative furnace.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- cheek pouch — a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents and some other mammals: used for holding food
- cheek tooth — any of the three posterior chewing teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaws in human adults; molar.
- cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- cheesecloth — Cheesecloth is cotton cloth that is very thin and light. There are tiny holes between the threads of the cloth.
- cheesed off — If you are cheesed off, you are annoyed, bored, or disappointed.
- cheesed-off — disgusted; fed up (usually followed by off).
- cheliferous — bearing chelae
- chemiotaxis — Dated form of chemotaxis.
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
- chemoreflex — a reflex caused by a chemical stimulus.
- chemosensor — A cell in a sense organ that can convert a chemical stimulus into some form of action.
- chemosmosis — chemical action between substances that are separated by a semipermeable membrane
- chemosphere — an atmospheric zone about 19 to 80 km (11.8 to 49.7 mi) above the earth's surface, in which photochemical reactions take place
- chemotactic — oriented movement toward or away from a chemical stimulus.
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- cheque book — A cheque book is a book of cheques which your bank gives you so that you can pay for things by cheque.
- chequerwork — any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern
- cheremkhovo — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, near Lake Baikal.
- cherepovets — city in NE Russia, on the Rybinsk Reservoir: pop. 319,000
- chernozemic — of or relating to a chernozem
- cherry bomb — a powerful firecracker that is shaped like a cherry
- cherry coal — a type of bituminous coal that burns readily and gives a hot fire.
- cherrystone — a small or not fully-grown edible clam of the genus Mercenaria, found in the waters off the Atlantic coast of North America
- chersoneses — Plural form of chersonese.
- chess clock — a timer for chess players, having a dial for each player on which his or her accumulated time is recorded and a device for stopping one timer and starting the other at the end of each move.
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- chessboxing — a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively
- chest voice — a voice of the lowest speaking or singing register
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chiastolite — a variety of andalusite containing carbon impurities