11-letter words containing c, h, e, s
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- chessboxing — a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively
- chesspieces — Plural form of chesspiece.
- chessplayer — a player of chess
- chest voice — a voice of the lowest speaking or singing register
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chevy chase — (The Ballad of Chevy Chase) a 15th-century English ballad describing the battle of Otterburn between the Percys and the Douglases.
- chiastolite — a variety of andalusite containing carbon impurities
- chicaneries — Plural form of chicanery.
- chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.
- chiffoniers — Plural form of chiffonier.
- chifforobes — Plural form of chifforobe.
- chilaquiles — (in Mexican cooking) a dish of fried tortilla strips typically topped with a spicy tomato sauce and cheese.
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
- chile-bells — a vine, Lapageria rosea, native to Chile, having leathery evergreen leaves and showy reddish flowers: the national flower of Chile.
- chili sauce — a spiced sauce of chopped tomatoes, green and red sweet peppers, onions, etc.
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- 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
- chindonesia — China, India, and Indonesia: seen collectively as the most important developing economies with the best growth markets for investors
- chinese ink — a black pigment consisting of lampblack mixed with glue or size.
- chinese lug — a lugsail stiffened by battens and kept flat when hoisted: used in Chinese sailing vessels.
- chinese red — a bright red colour
- 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.
- chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
- chinoiserie — a style of decorative or fine art based on imitations of Chinese motifs
- chintziness — The quality of being chintzy.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- chip slicer — a machine or tool for cutting chips
- chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
- chisel plow — a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.
- chisellings — a series of chiselled or engraved markings
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
- choirmaster — A choirmaster is a person whose job is to train a choir.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- cholecystic — gallbladder.
- 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
- cholesteric — resulting from the reaction of nitric acid and cholesterin and producing cholesterates
- cholesterin — a sterol, C 27 H 46 O, that occurs in all animal tissues, especially in the brain, spinal cord, and adipose tissue, functioning chiefly as a protective agent in the skin and myelin sheaths of nerve cells, a detoxifier in the bloodstream, and as a precursor of many steroids: deposits of cholesterol form in certain pathological conditions, as gallstones and atherosclerotic plaques.
- cholesterol — Cholesterol is a substance that exists in the fat, tissues, and blood of all animals. Too much cholesterol in a person's blood can cause heart disease.
- 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.
- chorus line — the group of dancers who perform routines in a musical
- chris evert — Chris(tine Marie) born 1954, U.S. tennis player.
- christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
- christening — A christening is a Christian ceremony in which a baby is made a member of the Christian church and is officially given his or her name. Compare baptism.