11-letter words containing o, r, t, h
- cross-patch — a bad-tempered or irritable person.
- crotcheteer — a person with a crotchet
- crown ether — a type of cyclic ether consisting of a ring of carbon and oxygen atoms, with two or more carbon atoms between each oxygen atom
- crown vetch — a trailing leguminous European plant, Coronilla varia, with clusters of white or pink flowers: cultivated in North America as a border plant
- crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
- cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
- cryotherapy — medical treatment in which all or part of the body is subjected to cold temperatures, as by means of ice packs
- cryptograph — something written in code or cipher
- cryptophyte — any perennial plant that bears its buds below the soil or water surface
- cryptorchid — an animal or human in which the testes fail to descend into the scrotum
- ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cut through — to penetrate or go through by cutting
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- cytopharynx — the gullet of a protozoan.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- deep throat — an anonymous source of secret information
- dehortation — an exhortation against a course of action
- dehortatory — intended to dissuade from a course of action
- dehydration — the act or process of dehydrating.
- dehydrators — Plural form of dehydrator.
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- 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.
- dichromatic — having or consisting of only two colours
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- diphtheroid — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- disenthrone — to dethrone.
- disthronize — to dethrone
- dittography — reduplication of letters or syllables in writing, printing, etc., usually through error.
- do honor to — to show great respect for
- do up right — to do carefully or thoroughly
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- dorset horn — one of an English breed of sheep having a close-textured, medium-length wool.
- dorsetshire — a county in S England. 1024 sq. mi. (2650 sq. km).
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
- downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- downlighter — Downlight.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- droolworthy — inspiring or likely to inspire excessive enthusiasm or pleasure; extremely attractive or desirable
- drop a hint — If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.