11-letter words containing l, a, h, o
- chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- clock watch — a watch that strikes the hours. Compare repeater (def 3).
- close reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- close shave — a narrow escape
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- cloth-eared — deaf
- coach class — the US and Canad. name for economy class
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- coal heaver — a workman who moves coal
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
- coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
- coleorhizae — Plural form of coleorhiza.
- collagraphy — A printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as cardboard or wood).
- collenchyma — a strengthening and supporting tissue in plants, consisting of elongated living cells whose walls are thickened with cellulose and pectins
- cologarithm — the logarithm of the reciprocal of a number; the negative value of the logarithm
- colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
- cool-headed — If you describe someone as cool-headed, you mean that they stay calm in difficult situations.
- coprophilia — an abnormal interest in faeces and their evacuation
- corbel arch — a construction like an arch but composed of masonry courses corbeled until they meet.
- corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
- cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- cyclohexane — a colourless insoluble flammable liquid cycloalkane with a pungent odour, made by hydrogenation of benzene and used as a paint remover and solvent. Formula: C6H12
- cyclothymia — a condition characterized by periodical swings of mood between excitement and depression, activity and inactivity
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- danish loaf — a large white loaf with a centre split having the top crust dusted with flour, esp one baked on the sole of the oven
- de la roche — Mazo [mey-zoh] /ˈmeɪ zoʊ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1961, Canadian novelist.
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- diaphonical — Diacoustic; diaphonic.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- diphthongal — Pertaining to a diphthong.
- diplophonia — a condition in which the voice simultaneously produces two sounds of different pitch.
- dog handler — a member of the police force, a security organization, etc, who works in collaboration with a specially trained dog
- door handle — doorknob.
- drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
- earth lodge — a circular, usually dome-shaped dwelling of certain North American Indians, made of posts and beams covered variously with branches, grass, sod, or earth and having a central opening in the roof, a tamped earth floor, and frequently a vestibule.
- earth-color — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- echolocated — Simple past tense and past participle of echolocate.
- echolocator — An organism capable of echolocation.
- ectothermal — coldblooded (sense 1)
- emetophilia — A sexual fetish in which an individual is aroused by vomiting, or by seeing others vomit.