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11-letter words containing s, t, h, r, i

  • book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
  • brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • british gum — dextrin.
  • british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
  • bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
  • burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns
  • butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
  • cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
  • carpathians — a mountain range in central Europe, extending from N Slovakia to central Romania. Highest peak, Gerlachovka, 8737 feet (2663 meters).
  • cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
  • catachresis — the incorrect use of words, as luxuriant for luxurious
  • catarrhines — Plural form of catarrhine.
  • cesarevitch — the eldest son of a czar.
  • chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
  • champerties — Plural form of champerty.
  • charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
  • charioteers — Plural form of charioteer.
  • charismatic — A charismatic person attracts, influences, and inspires people by their personal qualities.
  • chart music — songs that feature in the music charts
  • chemistries — Plural form of chemistry.
  • cherishment — the act or process of cherishing
  • chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
  • childbirths — Plural form of childbirth.
  • china aster — a related Chinese plant, Callistephus chinensis, widely cultivated for its showy brightly coloured flowers
  • chiropodist — A chiropodist is a person whose job is to treat and care for people's feet.
  • chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
  • choirmaster — A choirmaster is a person whose job is to train a choir.
  • choirstalls — fixed seats in the choir of a church, generally of carved wood
  • cholesteric — resulting from the reaction of nitric acid and cholesterin and producing cholesterates
  • cholesterin — a sterol, C 27 H 46 O, that occurs in all animal tissues, especially in the brain, spinal cord, and adipose tissue, functioning chiefly as a protective agent in the skin and myelin sheaths of nerve cells, a detoxifier in the bloodstream, and as a precursor of many steroids: deposits of cholesterol form in certain pathological conditions, as gallstones and atherosclerotic plaques.
  • choroiditis — a medical condition consisting of pain and swelling of the choroid
  • chris evert — Chris(tine Marie) born 1954, U.S. tennis player.
  • chrismation — a rite of initiation involving anointing with chrism and taking place at the same time as baptism
  • chrismatory — a small receptacle containing the three kinds of consecrated oil used in the sacraments
  • christcross — the mark of a cross formerly placed in front of the alphabet in hornbooks
  • christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
  • christening — A christening is a Christian ceremony in which a baby is made a member of the Christian church and is officially given his or her name. Compare baptism.
  • christian x — 1890–1947, king of Denmark (1912–47) and Iceland (1918–44)
  • christiania — Christie1
  • christianly — like a Christian; Christianlike.
  • christingle — (in Britain) a Christian service for children held shortly before Christmas, in which each child is given a decorated fruit with a lighted candle in it
  • christmassy — Something that is Christmassy is typical of or suitable for Christmas.
  • christogram — a symbol of Christ, especially the Chi-Rho.
  • christology — the branch of theology concerned with the person, attributes, and deeds of Christ
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