11-letter words containing s, h, e, c, m
- chromosomes — any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs, designated 1 to 22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively.
- chrysomelid — a vibrantly-coloured beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae that eats the leaves of plants
- chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
- chymiferous — containing chyme
- clam shells — the shell of a clam.
- comedy show — a funny programme on TV or radio
- commis chef — an apprentice chef
- comprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprehend.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- coppersmith — a person who works copper or copper alloys
- cosmosphere — a device consisting of a glass globe on which the stars are shown, and within which is another globe representing the Earth, that shows the position of the Earth, at any given time, in relation to the stars
- cosmothetic — positing the existence of the external world
- crampfishes — Plural form of crampfish.
- crime sheet — a record of an individual's offences against regulations
- customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- 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.
- detachments — Plural form of detachment.
- 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
- dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- eames chair — Also called LCM chair. a side chair designed by Charles Eames in 1946, having a slender tubular steel frame with a seat and back of molded plywood panels.
- echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- enrichments — Plural form of enrichment.
- escarmouche — a skirmish
- escharotomy — A surgical procedure in which an incision is made through eschar to expose the fatty tissue below.
- escheatment — (legal) The process of transferring unclaimed or abandoned property to a state authority, especially when a person dies intestate.
- estheticism — aestheticism
- euphemistic — Using or of the nature of a euphemism.
- eurhythmics — Alternative spelling of eurythmics.
- farm cheese — a mild, firm pressed cheese
- fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
- french seam — a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- haemostatic — That promotes haemostasis.
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- heat cramps — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- hectometers — Plural form of hectometer.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- helminthics — Plural form of helminthic.
- hemiacetals — Plural form of hemiacetal.
- hemisecting — Present participle of hemisect.
- hemisection — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- hemispheric — of or relating to a hemisphere.
- hemistichal — of or relating to a hemistich
- hemostatics — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- hemstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of hemstitch.