11-letter words containing r, o, s, e, h
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
- cardholders — Plural form of cardholder.
- carpophores — Plural form of carpophore.
- catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
- chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
- chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chancellors — Plural form of chancellor.
- changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
- chansonnier — a writer of chansons
- chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
- charioteers — Plural form of charioteer.
- 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.
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- cheliferous — bearing chelae
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
- chemosensor — A cell in a sense organ that can convert a chemical stimulus into some form of action.
- chemosphere — an atmospheric zone about 19 to 80 km (11.8 to 49.7 mi) above the earth's surface, in which photochemical reactions take place
- cherepovets — city in NE Russia, on the Rybinsk Reservoir: pop. 319,000
- 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.
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chiffoniers — Plural form of chiffonier.
- chifforobes — Plural form of chifforobe.
- chinoiserie — a style of decorative or fine art based on imitations of Chinese motifs
- chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- choirmaster — A choirmaster is a person whose job is to train a choir.
- cholesteric — resulting from the reaction of nitric acid and cholesterin and producing cholesterates