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11-letter words containing s, a, h, r

  • couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
  • couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
  • cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
  • crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
  • cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
  • crampfishes — Plural form of crampfish.
  • crankshafts — Plural form of crankshaft.
  • crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
  • crash truck — an emergency vehicle based at an airport.
  • crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
  • crazy horse — Native American name Ta-Sunko-Witko. ?1849–77, Sioux chief, remembered for his attempts to resist White settlement in Sioux territory
  • crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
  • creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
  • creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
  • crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
  • 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
  • cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
  • 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
  • dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
  • dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
  • dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
  • dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
  • dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
  • decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
  • dehydrators — Plural form of dehydrator.
  • deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
  • dharmashala — (in South Asia) a building devoted to religious or charitable purposes, especially a rest house for travelers.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • disc harrow — a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting
  • discharging — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • discography — a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings, typically of one composer, performer, or conductor.
  • discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
  • disenthrall — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • dish aerial — a microwave aerial, used esp in radar, radio telescopes, and satellite broadcasting, consisting of a parabolic reflector
  • disharmonic — lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.
  • disheartens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dishearten.
  • dishearting — Present participle of disheart.
  • dishonorary — tending to dishonour or disgrace
  • dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
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