11-letter words containing cho
- chondrified — Simple past tense and past participle of chondrify.
- chondrocyte — A cell that makes up the tissue of cartilage.
- chondroitin — an element that is present in cartilage
- 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.
- choplogical — (rare) Characterized by equivocation or by overly complex or specious argumentation; improperly reasoned.
- chord chart — a chart indicating by means of symbols the identity, sequence, and duration of the musical chords occurring in the accompaniment to a melody.
- chord organ — an electronic organ having a small keyboard for the right hand and for the left hand a set of buttons each of which produces a full chord when pushed.
- chordophone — any musical instrument producing sounds through the vibration of strings, such as the piano, harp, violin, or guitar
- chordotonal — (of an insect) responsive to sound vibrations, as certain organs or parts.
- choreodrama — dance drama performed by a group
- choreograph — When someone choreographs a ballet or other dance, they invent the steps and movements and tell the dancers how to perform them.
- chorography — the technique of mapping regions
- choroiditis — a medical condition consisting of pain and swelling of the choroid
- chorus frog — any of several small North American frogs of the genus Pseudacris, having a loud call commonly heard in the early spring.
- chorus girl — A chorus girl is a young woman who sings or dances as part of a group in a show or film.
- chorus line — the group of dancers who perform routines in a musical
- chou en-lai — 1898–1976, Chinese Communist statesman; foreign minister of the People's Republic of China (1949–58) and premier (1949–76)
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- chowderhead — a fool or an idiot
- cinchoninic — relating to cinchonine
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- cool school — a school where the students resolve conflict without the involvement of teachers
- cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomist — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomize — to divide or become divided into two parts or classifications
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
- drag anchor — (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
- drop anchor — secure a ship in place
- echo boomer — a member of Generation Y, born in the 1980s or 1990s; a Millennial.
- echolocated — Simple past tense and past participle of echolocate.
- echolocator — An organism capable of echolocation.
- echotexture — (medicine) The patterning of echogenicity in a diagnostic image.
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
- enchondroma — A cartilage cyst found in the bone marrow.
- epitrochoid — A geometric curve traced by a fixed point on one circle which rotates around the perimeter of another circle. Examples include the shape of the Wankel engine.
- euchologion — a collection of prayers
- free school — a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.
- french chop — a rib chop, usually of lamb, with the meat trimmed from the end of the bone.
- gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- gonochorism — (biology) The situation in which the individuals of a species are of one of two distinct sexes, and retain that sexuality throughout their lives.
- harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.