11-letter words containing n, e, o, c, h
- championess — a female champion
- chancellors — Plural form of chancellor.
- chancellory — Alternative spelling of chancellery.
- chancellour — Archaic form of chancellor.
- change down — When you change down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
- change over — If you change over from one thing to another, you stop doing one thing and start doing the other.
- changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
- changeround — the process of changing position
- channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
- chansonette — a little song
- chansonnier — a writer of chansons
- chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
- 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.
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- chemosensor — A cell in a sense organ that can convert a chemical stimulus into some form of action.
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- 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.
- chessboxing — a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- chiffoniers — Plural form of chiffonier.
- chiffonnier — a high chest of drawers or bureau, often having a mirror on top.
- chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
- 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
- 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.
- chloanthite — a form of nickel arsenide having commercial importance as a nickel ore
- 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.
- choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
- choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.