11-letter words containing r, h, i
- craniograph — an instrument that outlines the skull.
- craniophore — a device that holds a skull in place for measuring.
- creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- crime sheet — a record of an individual's offences against regulations
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
- cross hairs — crossed lines, as of fine hair or cobweb, mounted in the optical system of a telescopic gun sight, surveyor's level, etc., to assist in precise aiming or centering of the instrument
- cruise ship — A cruise ship is a large ship which takes people from place to place on a cruise holiday, and on which entertainment, food, and drink are provided.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- crunchiness — The state of being crunchy.
- cryophysics — a branch of physics in which phenomena are studied at low temperatures
- cryptarithm — a type of mathematical puzzle in which the digits of an equation have been substituted by letters
- cryptorchid — an animal or human in which the testes fail to descend into the scrotum
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
- cyberethics — Ethics in cyberspace.
- cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
- dante chair — a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
- dark-haired — (of a person) having dark hair
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- death chair — electric chair.
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- deciphering — Present participle of decipher.
- dehortation — an exhortation against a course of action
- dehydrating — Present participle of dehydrate.
- dehydration — the act or process of dehydrating.
- demi-hunter — a watch having a hinged case with a hole in the lid permitting the time to be seen even when the lid is closed.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- dendrophile — One who loves trees.
- derrickhand — A derrickhand is a member of the drilling crew who works on a platform above the rig floor and handles the drillpipe.
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diamorphine — heroin.
- diaper rash — (in babies) any irritation to the skin around the genitals, anus, or buttocks, usually caused by contact with urine or excrement
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diaphragmic — Which uses, or which is located in or near, the diaphragm.
- 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
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- dinner hour — lunch hour
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.