11-letter words containing o, a, t, h, s
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
- chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
- chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
- chemiotaxis — Dated form of chemotaxis.
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chiastolite — a variety of andalusite containing carbon impurities
- chiloplasty — cheiloplasty.
- china stone — a type of kaolinized granitic rock containing unaltered plagioclase
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- chloroplast — a plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments, occurring in plants and algae that carry out photosynthesis
- choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
- choirmaster — A choirmaster is a person whose job is to train a choir.
- choirstalls — fixed seats in the choir of a church, generally of carved wood
- cholangitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the bile duct.
- cholestasis — the medical condition characterized by the inability of bile to pass normally out of the liver due to blockage or impairment
- cholestatic — of or relating to cholestasis
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chrismation — a rite of initiation involving anointing with chrism and taking place at the same time as baptism
- chrismatory — a small receptacle containing the three kinds of consecrated oil used in the sacraments
- christogram — a symbol of Christ, especially the Chi-Rho.
- chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohabitates — cohabit.
- corinthians — either of two books of the New Testament (in full The First and Second Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians)
- corn starch — Corn starch is a fine white powder made from corn, used as a thickener or binder in the manufacture of drugs.
- cossack hat — a warm brimless hat of fur or sheepskin
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
- crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
- creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
- cross-match — to test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood) by checking that the red cells of each do not agglutinate in the other's serum
- cross-patch — a bad-tempered or irritable person.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
- death house — the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution
- dehydrators — Plural form of dehydrator.
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diarthrosis — any freely movable joint, such as the shoulder and hip joints
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- diphosphate — a pyrophosphate.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- dwarf shoot — a very thin lateral branch in certain trees.