11-letter words containing s, e, h
- courthouses — Plural form of courthouse.
- cover sheet — top page of a document
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- crampfishes — Plural form of crampfish.
- crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
- 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.
- creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepe shoes — shoes soled with crepe rubber
- crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
- crime sheet — a record of an individual's offences against regulations
- crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
- cross-bench — a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member
- cross-check — If you cross-check information, you check that it is correct using a different method or source from the one originally used to obtain it.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- 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.
- crunchiness — The state of being crunchy.
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- cued speech — a method of communication in which a speaker uses a system of manual cues to aid a lipreader by clarifying potentially ambiguous mouth movements with hand gestures.
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- curd cheese — a mild white cheese made from skimmed milk curds, smoother and fattier than cottage cheese
- cushionless — without a cushion
- customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
- cyberethics — Ethics in cyberspace.
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish
- danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
- dasht-e-lut — vast desert region of central and SE Iran, extending southward from the Dasht-e-Kavir
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- de-emphasis — a reduction in emphasis: There has been de-emphasis on athletic activities at the school.
- dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- 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
- death squad — Death squads are groups of people who operate illegally and carry out the killing of people such as their political opponents or criminals.
- death taxes — Death taxes were a tax which had to be paid on the money and property of someone who had died. This tax is now called inheritance tax.
- deathlessly — In a deathless manner.
- deathliness — The state or quality of being deathly.
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- decathletes — Plural form of decathlete.
- deemphasize — to place less emphasis upon; reduce in importance, size, scope, etc.: The university de-emphasized intercollegiate football.
- dehumanised — Past participle of dehumanise.