11-letter words containing a, c, h, l, s
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
- clam shells — the shell of a clam.
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clean hands — freedom from guilt
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- clean sheet — an instance of conceding no goals or points in a match or competition (esp in the phrase keep a clean sheet)
- cleanshaven — having all the hairs shaved off
- close reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- close shave — a narrow escape
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- coach class — the US and Canad. name for economy class
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
- cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
- 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
- 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.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- decathletes — Plural form of decathlete.
- deutschland — Germany
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dispatchful — of or relating to dispatch, particularly in terms of haste
- ecclesiarch — a sacristan, especially of a monastery.
- eschatology — The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
- escheatable — Liable to escheat.
- ethicalness — (rare) The state or quality of being ethical.
- facial wash — a beauty product which cleanses the skin of the face
- feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- grass cloth — a cloth made from plant fibres, such as jute or hemp
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- hazel crest — a town in NE Illinois.
- hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
- heliostatic — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- hemiacetals — Plural form of hemiacetal.
- hemistichal — of or relating to a hemistich
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.