11-letter words containing h, g, e
- 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.
- charge card — A charge card is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores. Compare credit card.
- charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
- chargrilled — Simple past tense and past participle of chargrill.
- 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
- chateauguay — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
- che guevara — Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Che") 1928–67, Cuban revolutionist and political leader, born in Argentina.
- check digit — a digit derived from and appended to a string of data digits, used to detect corruption of the data string during transmission or transcription
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
- chessboxing — a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively
- chewing gum — Chewing gum is a kind of sweet that you can chew for a long time. You do not swallow it.
- chiliburger — a hamburger served with a topping of chili con carne.
- chinese lug — a lugsail stiffened by battens and kept flat when hoisted: used in Chinese sailing vessels.
- 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.
- chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
- chisellings — a series of chiselled or engraved markings
- chitterling — part of the small intestine of swine
- cholinergic — denoting nerve fibres that release acetylcholine when stimulated
- choreograph — When someone choreographs a ballet or other dance, they invent the steps and movements and tell the dancers how to perform them.
- 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
- chromogenic — producing colour
- chronologer — A chronologist.
- chug report — (humour) From "chug" - to drink heavily. A bug report whose the submitter is thought to have had one too many. Not as bad as a drug report.
- chugalugged — Simple past tense and past participle of chugalug.
- churchgoers — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
- 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.
- clothes peg — A clothes peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.
- clothes-peg — a clothespin.
- coat hanger — A coat hanger is a curved piece of wood, metal, or plastic that you hang a piece of clothing on.
- cockfighter — One who engages in a cockfight.
- copyrighted — Copyrighted material is protected by a copyright.
- copyrighter — One who obtains the copyright on a work.
- cough sweet — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- crapehanger — a gloomy person; a pessimist
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepehanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
- crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- dead weight — A dead weight is a load which is surprisingly heavy and difficult to lift.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense