11-letter words containing e, a, c, h
- black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
- braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
- branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
- breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- cabbagehead — cabbage1 (def 2).
- cache block — cache line
- cachectical — cachetic
- cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
- cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
- caddishness — the state of being caddish
- cadet cloth — a heavy woolen cloth of double-cloth construction and bluish-gray color, used especially for uniforms at military schools.
- caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
- calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
- camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
- camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
- camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
- camphorweed — vinegarweed.
- can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
- candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
- canned heat — fuel packaged to be used in small cans for heating, as with chafing dishes or in portable stoves.
- canoe birch — paper birch.
- cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
- cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
- cape helles — a cape in NW Turkey, at the S end of the Gallipoli Peninsula
- capiz shell — whitish, translucent shell of the Philippines, used in making lamp shades, decorative articles, etc.
- capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
- card hopper — a device that allows cards of varying thicknesses to be fed individually through an outlet opening in a printer without adjustment
- cardholders — Plural form of cardholder.
- cardsharper — (rare) alternative spelling of cardsharp.
- carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings