11-letter words containing h, o, t, a
- cossack hat — a warm brimless hat of fur or sheepskin
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
- crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
- creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- cross-match — to test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood) by checking that the red cells of each do not agglutinate in the other's serum
- cross-patch — a bad-tempered or irritable person.
- cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
- cryotherapy — medical treatment in which all or part of the body is subjected to cold temperatures, as by means of ice packs
- cryptograph — something written in code or cipher
- ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
- cyclothymia — a condition characterized by periodical swings of mood between excitement and depression, activity and inactivity
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- cytopharynx — the gullet of a protozoan.
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- death house — the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- deep throat — an anonymous source of secret information
- dehortation — an exhortation against a course of action
- dehortatory — intended to dissuade from a course of action
- dehydration — the act or process of dehydrating.
- dehydrators — Plural form of dehydrator.
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diarthrosis — any freely movable joint, such as the shoulder and hip joints
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichromatic — having or consisting of only two colours
- diophantine — Alternative capitalization of Diophantine.
- diphosphate — a pyrophosphate.
- diphthongal — Pertaining to a diphthong.
- diphthongia — diplophonia.
- dittography — reduplication of letters or syllables in writing, printing, etc., usually through error.
- do to death — overdo sth, do sth too often
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- donut peach — fruit
- downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
- downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- 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.
- drop a hint — If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.