11-letter words containing s, h, o, e
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- 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
- 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.
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- cushionless — without a cushion
- customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- 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.
- dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
- 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
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- dehydrators — Plural form of dehydrator.
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- delightsome — highly pleasing; delightful.
- demolishing — Present participle of demolish.
- demosthenes — 384–322 bc, Athenian statesman, orator, and lifelong opponent of the power of Macedonia over Greece
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diapophyses — Plural form of diapophysis.
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- 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.
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- diphosphate — a pyrophosphate.
- discotheque — a nightclub for dancing to live or recorded music and often featuring sophisticated sound systems, elaborate lighting, and other effects.
- disenshroud — to free from a shroud
- disenthrone — to dethrone.
- dishonestly — In a dishonest manner.
- dishonoured — Simple past tense and past participle of dishonour.
- dishonourer — One who dishonours.
- disthronize — to dethrone
- do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
- dog whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- dog-whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.