11-letter words containing n, e, h, r
- chancellour — Archaic form of chancellor.
- chandeliers — Plural form of chandelier.
- chandleries — Plural form of chandlery.
- chandlering — the work of a chandler
- change over — If you change over from one thing to another, you stop doing one thing and start doing the other.
- changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
- changeround — the process of changing position
- chansonnier — a writer of chansons
- chanterelle — any saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus of the genus Cantharellus, esp C. cibarius, having an edible yellow funnel-shaped mushroom: family Cantharellaceae
- chanticleer — a name for a cock, used esp in fables
- chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
- chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- 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.
- 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
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
- chemosensor — A cell in a sense organ that can convert a chemical stimulus into some form of action.
- cherishment — the act or process of cherishing
- chernozemic — of or relating to a chernozem
- cherrystone — a small or not fully-grown edible clam of the genus Mercenaria, found in the waters off the Atlantic coast of North America
- chersoneses — Plural form of chersonese.
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chicaneries — Plural form of chicanery.
- chicken run — the departure of white residents from South Africa
- chicken-fry — to dip (meat, vegetables, etc.) in batter and fry, usually in deep fat: chicken-fried steak.
- chieftainry — the area governed by a chieftain
- chiffoniers — Plural form of chiffonier.
- chiffonnier — a high chest of drawers or bureau, often having a mirror on top.
- childminder — A childminder is someone whose job it is to look after children when the children's parents are away or are at work. Childminders usually work in their own homes.
- china aster — a related Chinese plant, Callistephus chinensis, widely cultivated for its showy brightly coloured flowers
- chinese red — a bright red colour
- chinoiserie — a style of decorative or fine art based on imitations of Chinese motifs
- chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
- chitterling — part of the small intestine of swine
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- chlordecone — a highly toxic pesticide, C 10 H 10 O, causing nerve damage in humans, that is believed to contaminate waterways: no longer widely used.
- chlorinated — Chlorinated water, for example drinking water or water in a swimming pool, has been cleaned by adding chlorine to it.
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- chlorine 36 — the radioactive isotope of chlorine having a mass number 36 and a half-life of about 440,000 years, used chiefly as a tracer.
- chloroprene — a colourless liquid derivative of butadiene that is used in making neoprene rubbers; 2-chloro-1,2-butadiene. Formula: CH2:CHCCl:CH2
- chloroquine — a synthetic drug administered orally to treat malaria. Formula: C18H26ClN3
- chlorphenol — chlorophenol.
- 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.
- cholinergic — denoting nerve fibres that release acetylcholine when stimulated
- chondrified — Simple past tense and past participle of chondrify.
- chondrocyte — A cell that makes up the tissue of cartilage.