11-letter words containing i, n, h
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns
- bushbashing — the process of forcing a path through the bush
- bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- bushranging — the life of a bushranger
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
- cachinnator — One who laughs loudly and immoderately.
- cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
- caddishness — the state of being caddish
- cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
- caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
- canoe birch — paper birch.
- canophilist — a person who loves dogs
- cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
- cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
- cantharidic — cantharidal
- cantharidin — the compound C10H12O4, which is the active ingredient in cantharides and is secreted by many species of blister beetle
- cap in hand — If you go cap in hand to someone, you ask them very humbly to give you something or to do something for you.
- cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
- captainship — captaincy.
- carpathians — a mountain range in central Europe, extending from N Slovakia to central Romania. Highest peak, Gerlachovka, 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
- cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
- casing shoe — A casing shoe is the bottom of the casing string, including the cement around it.
- cataphonics — catacoustics
- catarrhines — Plural form of catarrhine.
- catch basin — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
- catechising — Present participle of catechise.
- catechizing — Present participle of catechize.
- catherine i — ?1684–1727, second wife of Peter the Great, whom she succeeded as empress of Russia (1725–27)
- cattishness — The property of being cattish.
- cenesthesia — the mass of undifferentiated sensations that make one aware of the body and its condition, as in the feeling of well-being or illness
- centrarchid — (zoology) Any member of the Centrarchidae.
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- ch'ien lung — (Kao Tsung) 1711–99, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1736–96.
- ch'iungshan — Qiongshan.
- chaffinches — Plural form of chaffinch.
- chain coral — coral of the extinct genus Halysites, from the Ordovician and Silurian periods, consisting of oval, laterally compressed corallites united to form a chainlike structure.
- chain drive — a chain of links passing over sprockets that transmits rotation from one shaft to another
- chain grate — a type of mechanical stoker for a furnace, in which the grate consists of an endless chain that draws the solid fuel into the furnace as it rotates
- chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
- chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
- chain wheel — sprocket (def 1).
- chain-react — to undergo a chain reaction
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.