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11-letter words that end in ch

  • middlemarch — a novel (1871–72) by George Eliot.
  • moss stitch — a knitting stitch made up of alternate plain and purl stitches
  • motor coach — a coach driven by an internal-combustion engine
  • naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
  • neural arch — a bony or cartilaginous arch resting on the chief part of each vertebra and forming a tunnel through which the nerve cord passes
  • night coach — the class of airline coach at a lower fare than regularly offered, often restricted to late-night journeys.
  • night latch — a door lock operated from the inside by a knob and from the outside by a key.
  • night watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
  • night-watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
  • nimzowitsch — Aaron Isayevich (ɪˈzaɪjɛvɪtʃ) 1886–1935, Latvian chess player and theorist; influential in enunciating the principles of the hypermodern school, of which he was the main instigator
  • nitrostarch — an orange powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 8 O 2 6 , soluble in ethanol, used in explosives.
  • norman arch — a semicircular arch, esp one in the Romanesque style of architecture developed by the Normans in England
  • not so much — less
  • ocean perch — redfish (def 1).
  • old scratch — the devil; Satan.
  • open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  • overstretch — to stretch excessively.
  • paper birch — a North American birch, Betula papyrifera, having a tough bark and yielding a valuable wood: the state tree of New Hampshire.
  • paper match — book match.
  • pearl perch — an edible marine fish, Glaucosoma scapulare, of eastern Australian coastal waters.
  • pelvic arch — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.
  • pipe wrench — a tool having two toothed jaws, one fixed and the other free to grip pipes and other tubular objects when the tool is turned in one direction only.
  • power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
  • pretty much — mostly
  • prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • quick march — a march in quick time.
  • quick-hatch — a wolverine.
  • quick-march — a march in quick time.
  • ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
  • re-entrench — to place in a position of strength; establish firmly or solidly: safely entrenched behind undeniable facts.
  • river birch — a tree, Betula nigra, of the eastern U.S., having papery, reddish-brown bark that peels away.
  • roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
  • rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
  • route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
  • sales pitch — promotional talk
  • schrecklich — frightful or horrible
  • self-speech — the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
  • skin-search — strip-search.
  • slip stitch — a sewing stitch for securing hems, etc, in which only two or three threads of the material are caught up by the needle each time, so that the stitches are nearly invisible from the right side
  • slip-stitch — a loose stitch taken between two layers of fabric, as on a facing or hem, so as to be invisible on the right side or outside surface, used in stoating.
  • slit trench — a narrow trench for one or more persons for protection against enemy fire and fragmentation bombs.
  • slow-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively slowly and is resistant to fatigue (distinguished from fast-twitch).
  • soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
  • sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
  • square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
  • state coach — a horse-drawn coach used by royalty on state occasions
  • storm watch — watch (def 20).
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
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