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11-letter words containing m, a, c, h, r, e

  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • charchemish — an ancient city in S Turkey, on the upper Euphrates: important city in the Mitanni kingdom; later the capital of the Hittite empire.
  • charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
  • 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
  • charmlessly — in a charmless manner
  • checkmarked — to indicate by a check mark.
  • cheesemaker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
  • chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
  • chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
  • chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
  • choirmaster — A choirmaster is a person whose job is to train a choir.
  • choreodrama — dance drama performed by a group
  • chromascope — An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
  • chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
  • chrome tape — magnetic recording tape coated with chrome dioxide
  • chromeplate — to plate with chromium.
  • chrominance — the quality of light that causes the sensation of colour. It is determined by comparison with a reference source of the same brightness and of known chromaticity
  • claw hammer — a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nails
  • cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
  • comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
  • crampfishes — Plural form of crampfish.
  • death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
  • demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
  • deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
  • dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
  • eames chair — Also called LCM chair. a side chair designed by Charles Eames in 1946, having a slender tubular steel frame with a seat and back of molded plywood panels.
  • ectothermal — coldblooded (sense 1)
  • enchondroma — A cartilage cyst found in the bone marrow.
  • epicheirema — Alt form epichirema.
  • escarmouche — a skirmish
  • escharotomy — A surgical procedure in which an incision is made through eschar to expose the fatty tissue below.
  • euchromatin — the part of a chromosome that constitutes the major genes and does not stain strongly with basic dyes when the cell is not dividing
  • farm cheese — a mild, firm pressed cheese
  • french seam — a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
  • frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
  • frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
  • gamechanger — A visionary, innovative person who changes the way people think of a situation.
  • gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
  • germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
  • hack hammer — an adzlike tool for dressing stone.
  • haemachrome — Hematin.
  • haematocrit — Alternative spelling of hematocrit.
  • haemochrome — a blood pigment, such as haemoglobin, that carries oxygen
  • hammercloth — a cloth covering for the driver's seat on a horse-drawn carriage.
  • hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
  • heat cramps — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
  • heavy cream — thick cream having a high percentage of butterfat.
  • hematocryal — cold-blooded; poikilothermal.
  • hemeralopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; day-blind; suffering from hemeralopia.
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