11-letter words containing t, e, l, h, r
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- chelicerate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chelicerata, a subphylum of arthropods, including arachnids and the horseshoe crab, in which the first pair of limbs are modified as chelicerae
- chitterling — part of the small intestine of swine
- chloracetic — an acid made by chlorinating acetic acid
- chlorimeter — a device used to determine the amount of chlorine present in a preparation
- chlorimetry — the methods and procedures used to determine the amount of chlorine present in a preparation
- chlorinated — Chlorinated water, for example drinking water or water in a swimming pool, has been cleaned by adding chlorine to it.
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- chlorophyte — A lower plant of the division Chlorophyta, which comprises the green algae.
- chocolatier — a person or company that makes or sells chocolate
- 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.
- cholesterol — Cholesterol is a substance that exists in the fat, tissues, and blood of all animals. Too much cholesterol in a person's blood can cause heart disease.
- 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
- chromeplate — to plate with chromium.
- cleethorpes — a resort in E England, in North East Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire. Pop: 31 853 (2001)
- cloth-eared — deaf
- coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
- cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
- disenthrall — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- downlighter — Downlight.
- early night — If you have an early night, you go to bed early. If you have a late night, you go to bed late.
- earth lodge — a circular, usually dome-shaped dwelling of certain North American Indians, made of posts and beams covered variously with branches, grass, sod, or earth and having a central opening in the roof, a tamped earth floor, and frequently a vestibule.
- earth-color — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- earthliness — of or relating to the earth, especially as opposed to heaven; worldly.
- echolocator — An organism capable of echolocation.
- ectothermal — coldblooded (sense 1)
- eleutherian — giving or protecting freedom
- elsewhither — Somewhither else; to some other place; in some other direction.
- emery cloth — a cloth covered with abrasive emery particles, used for sanding
- endothermal — Endothermic.
- enlightener — One who, or that which, enlightens.
- enthralldom — The act of enthralling, or the state of being enthralled; slavery; bondage.
- enthralling — Capturing and holding one's attention; fascinating.
- enthralment — Alternative spelling of enthrallment.
- establisher — A person who establishes something.
- estranghelo — an archaic, cursive form of the Syriac alphabet
- ethelred ii — known as Ethelred the Unready. ?968–1016 ad, king of England (978–1016). He was temporarily deposed by the Danish king Sweyn (1013) but was recalled on Sweyn's death (1014)
- ethereality — The quality of being ethereal.
- etherealize — (transitive) To make ethereal.
- ethyl ether — chemical anaesthetic; ether
- eurythermal — (of organisms) able to tolerate a wide range of temperatures in the environment
- exhilarated — Simple past tense and past participle of exhilarate.
- exhilarates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exhilarate.
- exhilarator — a person who, or thing which, exhilarates
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- featherless — Having no feathers.
- featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- fire blight — a disease of pears, apples, quinces, etc., characterized by blossom, twig, and fruit blight and stem cankers, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia amylovora.