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11-letter words containing a, c, h, r, i, s

  • chandleries — Plural form of chandlery.
  • chansonnier — a writer of chansons
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • charchemish — an ancient city in S Turkey, on the upper Euphrates: important city in the Mitanni kingdom; later the capital of the Hittite empire.
  • charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
  • charioteers — Plural form of charioteer.
  • charismatic — A charismatic person attracts, influences, and inspires people by their personal qualities.
  • charles iii — known as Charles the Fat. 839–888 ad, Holy Roman Emperor (881–887) and, as Charles II, king of France (884–887). He briefly reunited the empire of Charlemagne
  • charles vii — 1403–61, king of France (1422–61), son of Charles VI. He was excluded from the French throne by the Treaty of Troyes, but following Joan of Arc's victory over the English at Orléans (1429), was crowned
  • charles xii — 1682–1718, king of Sweden (1697–1718), who inflicted defeats on Denmark, Russia, and Poland during the Great Northern War (1700–21)
  • charles xiv — the title as king of Sweden and Norway of Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte
  • chart music — songs that feature in the music charts
  • cherishable — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
  • chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
  • chiaroscuro — Chiaroscuro is the use of light and shade in a picture, or the effect produced by light and shade in a place.
  • chicaneries — Plural form of chicanery.
  • china aster — a related Chinese plant, Callistephus chinensis, widely cultivated for its showy brightly coloured flowers
  • chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
  • chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • chrysalidal — relating to a chrysalis or stage in the development of an insect
  • chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
  • chrysalises — Plural form of chrysalis.
  • chrysarobin — a tasteless odourless powder containing anthraquinone derivatives of araroba, formerly used medicinally to treat chronic skin conditions
  • citharistic — relating to the cithar
  • clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
  • coarse fish — a freshwater fish that is not a member of the salmon family
  • comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
  • corinthians — either of two books of the New Testament (in full The First and Second Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians)
  • corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
  • crampfishes — Plural form of crampfish.
  • creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
  • cross hairs — crossed lines, as of fine hair or cobweb, mounted in the optical system of a telescopic gun sight, surveyor's level, etc., to assist in precise aiming or centering of the instrument
  • curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
  • diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
  • diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
  • dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
  • disc harrow — a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting
  • discharging — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • discography — a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings, typically of one composer, performer, or conductor.
  • discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
  • disharmonic — lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.
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