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11-letter words containing t, s, h, a

  • chiloplasty — cheiloplasty.
  • chin cactus — any of various globular cacti of the genus Gymnocalycium, native to South America, having white or pinkish flowers and a chinlike protrusion below each cluster of spines.
  • china aster — a related Chinese plant, Callistephus chinensis, widely cultivated for its showy brightly coloured flowers
  • china stone — a type of kaolinized granitic rock containing unaltered plagioclase
  • chinese tag — a variety of the game of tag in which the tagged player must hold one hand on the part of the body where he or she was tagged.
  • chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
  • chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
  • chloroplast — a plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments, occurring in plants and algae that carry out photosynthesis
  • choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
  • 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
  • cholangitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the bile duct.
  • cholestasis — the medical condition characterized by the inability of bile to pass normally out of the liver due to blockage or impairment
  • cholestatic — of or relating to cholestasis
  • chou pastry — cream puff paste.
  • 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
  • christian x — 1890–1947, king of Denmark (1912–47) and Iceland (1918–44)
  • christiania — Christie1
  • christianly — like a Christian; Christianlike.
  • christmassy — Something that is Christmassy is typical of or suitable for Christmas.
  • christogram — a symbol of Christ, especially the Chi-Rho.
  • chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
  • chula vista — city in SW Calif.: suburb of San Diego: pop. 174,000
  • citharistic — relating to the cithar
  • cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
  • clean sheet — an instance of conceding no goals or points in a match or competition (esp in the phrase keep a clean sheet)
  • coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
  • cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
  • cohabitates — cohabit.
  • corinthians — either of two books of the New Testament (in full The First and Second Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians)
  • corn starch — Corn starch is a fine white powder made from corn, used as a thickener or binder in the manufacture of drugs.
  • cossack hat — a warm brimless hat of fur or sheepskin
  • cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
  • crankshafts — Plural form of crankshaft.
  • crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
  • crash truck — an emergency vehicle based at an airport.
  • crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
  • creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
  • cross-match — to test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood) by checking that the red cells of each do not agglutinate in the other's serum
  • cross-patch — a bad-tempered or irritable person.
  • curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
  • cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
  • cutlassfish — any of a family (Trichiuridae) of very long, thin percoid fishes with a wide mouth and sharp, pointed teeth, found near the surface in tropical seas
  • cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
  • cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
  • czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
  • dasht-e-lut — vast desert region of central and SE Iran, extending southward from the Dasht-e-Kavir
  • dasht-i-lut — a desert plateau in central and E central Iran
  • dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
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