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11-letter words containing s, p, h

  • cephalopods — Plural form of cephalopod.
  • chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
  • champerties — Plural form of champerty.
  • 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.
  • champignons — Plural form of champignon.
  • championess — a female champion
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • cheap skate — a person who is stingy and miserly.
  • cheapskates — Plural form of cheapskate.
  • checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
  • checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
  • cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
  • cheekpieces — Plural form of cheekpiece.
  • cheeseparer — a skinflint or miser
  • cheesepress — the equipment used to press cheese curd
  • 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
  • chesspieces — Plural form of chesspiece.
  • chessplayer — a player of chess
  • chiasmatypy — the process of chiasma formation, which is the basis for crossing over.
  • chiloplasty — cheiloplasty.
  • chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
  • chinquapins — Plural form of chinquapin.
  • chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
  • chip slicer — a machine or tool for cutting chips
  • chiropodist — A chiropodist is a person whose job is to treat and care for people's feet.
  • chirrupings — Plural form of chirruping.
  • chisel plow — a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.
  • chloroplast — a plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments, occurring in plants and algae that carry out photosynthesis
  • chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
  • chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
  • chou pastry — cream puff paste.
  • christopher — Saint. 3rd century ad, Christian martyr; patron saint of travellers
  • chromascope — An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
  • chromoplasm — chromatin.
  • chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
  • chromoscope — a piece of equipment that is used to examine different aspects of colour including, for example, intensity
  • chronoscope — an instrument that registers small intervals of time on a dial, cathode-ray tube, etc
  • chrysograph — a manuscript, especially of the Middle Ages, written in gold or gold and silver ink.
  • chrysophyte — any of the golden alga species
  • chrysoprase — an apple-green variety of chalcedony: a gemstone
  • chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
  • citizenship — If you have citizenship of a country, you are legally accepted as belonging to it.
  • cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
  • cleethorpes — a resort in E England, in North East Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire. Pop: 31 853 (2001)
  • clodhoppers — a large heavy shoe or boot
  • closed shop — If a factory, shop, or other business is a closed shop, the employees must be members of a particular trade union.
  • clothes peg — A clothes peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.
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