12-letter words containing che
- credit check — a check performed by a company selling goods on credit to establish if a potential customer is creditworthy
- crochet hook — a hooked needle used for crocheting
- crossbencher — A member of the British parliament, or a similar assembly, who does not vote regularly with either the government or the main opposition party.
- crosschecked — Simple past tense and past participle of crosscheck.
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- cytochemical — the branch of cell biology dealing with the detection of cell constituents by means of biochemical analysis and visualization techniques.
- deathmatches — Plural form of deathmatch.
- deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- deep-chested — having a broad, strong-looking upper body
- detachedness — the quality of being detached or separated
- deux chevaux — a very small, inexpensive automobile
- diet kitchen — a kitchen, as in a hospital, where special food is prepared for those requiring it.
- double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
- dreamcatcher — A small hoop containing a horsehair mesh, or a similar construction of string or yarn, decorated with feathers and beads, believed to give its owner good dreams. Dreamcatchers were originally made by American Indians.
- duchesse bed — a bed having a suspended, full-length tester.
- dust catcher — Informal. a knickknack or other household object that is little used.
- dutch cheese — Inland North. cottage cheese.
- duty chemist — a dispensing chemist's that is open to the public for a specific period when other chemists are closed
- dwarf cherry — any of several low, North American cherries that grow on dry or sandy soil, especially Prunus pumila, of the Great Lakes region.
- en brochette — (esp of meat) roasted or grilled on a skewer
- endotracheal — Situated or occurring within or performed by way of the trachea.
- feel cheated — If you feel cheated, you feel that you have been let down or treated unfairly.
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
- flat-chested — If you describe a woman as flat-chested, you mean that she has small breasts.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- glacé cherry — a crystallized or candied cherry, used in cookery and cocktail-making
- gnatcatchers — Plural form of gnatcatcher.
- greenfinches — Plural form of greenfinch.
- hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
- hamantaschen — a small triangular cake often made with yeast and filled with a mixture of poppy seeds and honey or with prune paste, prepared especially for the festival of Purim.
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- hatchet face — a thin face with sharp features.
- hatchet-face — a face with narrow dimensions and sharp features
- head teacher — A head teacher is a teacher who is in charge of a school.
- health check — a medical checkup
- heart cherry — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry having soft flesh.
- hematochezia — the passage of bloody stools.
- high-pitched — Music. played or sung at a high pitch.
- histochemist — someone who specializes in histochemistry
- home teacher — private tutor
- hotchpotches — Plural form of hotchpotch.
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
- inescutcheon — A small shield placed within a larger one.
- john bircher — Bircher.