11-letter words containing n, a, c, h, e, s
- chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- chastenment — the process of chastening
- chatelaines — Plural form of chatelaine.
- chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar
- 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)
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chicaneries — Plural form of chicanery.
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- china aster — a related Chinese plant, Callistephus chinensis, widely cultivated for its showy brightly coloured flowers
- china stone — a type of kaolinized granitic rock containing unaltered plagioclase
- chindonesia — China, India, and Indonesia: seen collectively as the most important developing economies with the best growth markets for investors
- chinese tag — a variety of the game of tag in which the tagged player must hold one hand on the part of the body where he or she was tagged.
- chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
- clean hands — freedom from guilt
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- clean sheet — an instance of conceding no goals or points in a match or competition (esp in the phrase keep a clean sheet)
- cleanshaven — having all the hairs shaved off
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- despatching — Present participle of despatch.
- detachments — Plural form of detachment.
- deutschland — Germany
- disenchants — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenchant.
- enchantress — A woman who uses magic or sorcery, esp. to put someone or something under a spell.
- encroachers — Plural form of encroacher.
- enfranchise — Give the right to vote to.
- escheatment — (legal) The process of transferring unclaimed or abandoned property to a state authority, especially when a person dies intestate.
- esthetician — Alternative spelling of aesthetician.
- ethicalness — (rare) The state or quality of being ethical.
- fianchettos — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fianchetto.
- franchisees — Plural form of franchisee.
- franchisers — Plural form of franchiser.
- 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.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- hackishness — (jargon) The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Synonym hackitude.
- haines city — a town in central Florida.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hispanicize — to make Spanish or Latin American, as in character, custom, or style.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house