11-letter words containing i, l, e, s, h
- channelised — Simple past tense and past participle of channelise.
- charles iii — known as Charles the Fat. 839–888 ad, Holy Roman Emperor (881–887) and, as Charles II, king of France (884–887). He briefly reunited the empire of Charlemagne
- charles vii — 1403–61, king of France (1422–61), son of Charles VI. He was excluded from the French throne by the Treaty of Troyes, but following Joan of Arc's victory over the English at Orléans (1429), was crowned
- charles xii — 1682–1718, king of Sweden (1697–1718), who inflicted defeats on Denmark, Russia, and Poland during the Great Northern War (1700–21)
- charles xiv — the title as king of Sweden and Norway of Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte
- chatelaines — Plural form of chatelaine.
- cheliferous — bearing chelae
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- cherishable — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
- chiastolite — a variety of andalusite containing carbon impurities
- chilaquiles — (in Mexican cooking) a dish of fried tortilla strips typically topped with a spicy tomato sauce and cheese.
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
- chile-bells — a vine, Lapageria rosea, native to Chile, having leathery evergreen leaves and showy reddish flowers: the national flower of Chile.
- chili sauce — a spiced sauce of chopped tomatoes, green and red sweet peppers, onions, etc.
- chinese lug — a lugsail stiffened by battens and kept flat when hoisted: used in Chinese sailing vessels.
- chip slicer — a machine or tool for cutting chips
- chisel plow — a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.
- chisellings — a series of chiselled or engraved markings
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- cholecystic — gallbladder.
- cholestasis — the medical condition characterized by the inability of bile to pass normally out of the liver due to blockage or impairment
- cholestatic — of or relating to cholestasis
- cholesteric — resulting from the reaction of nitric acid and cholesterin and producing cholesterates
- cholesterin — a sterol, C 27 H 46 O, that occurs in all animal tissues, especially in the brain, spinal cord, and adipose tissue, functioning chiefly as a protective agent in the skin and myelin sheaths of nerve cells, a detoxifier in the bloodstream, and as a precursor of many steroids: deposits of cholesterol form in certain pathological conditions, as gallstones and atherosclerotic plaques.
- chorus line — the group of dancers who perform routines in a musical
- 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
- chroniclers — Plural form of chronicler.
- chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
- chrysalises — Plural form of chrysalis.
- chrysomelid — a vibrantly-coloured beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae that eats the leaves of plants
- chyliferous — containing chyle
- cleisthenes — 6th century bc, Athenian statesman: democratized the political structure of Athens
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- coltishness — The state or condition of being coltish.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- cushionless — without a cushion
- 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
- danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- deathliness — The state or quality of being deathly.
- delightless — not offering delight
- delightsome — highly pleasing; delightful.