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13-letter words containing a, c, h, g, e

  • chandernagore — a port in E India, in S West Bengal on the Hooghly River: a former French settlement (1686–1950). Pop: 162 166 (2001)
  • changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • changefulness — Propensity to change.
  • changing tone — cambiata.
  • changing-note — cambiata.
  • charcoal grey — a very dark grey colour
  • chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
  • chasse gardee — a private hunting preserve.
  • checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
  • cheddar gorge — a pass through the Mendip Hills renowned for its stalactitic caverns and rare limestone flora
  • cheese grater — an implement for grating cheese
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • chicago ridge — a town in NE Illinois.
  • chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
  • chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
  • child rearing — the activity of rearing children
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • chilean guava — a tropical shrub or small tree, Ugni molinae, of the myrtle family, having leathery, oval leaves, rose-pink flowers, and blue-black, edible fruit.
  • chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
  • choreographed — You describe an activity involving several people as choreographed when it is arranged but is intended to appear natural.
  • choreographer — A choreographer is someone who invents the movements for a ballet or other dance and tells the dancers how to perform them.
  • choreographic — Choreographic means relating to or connected with choreography.
  • cigar lighter — a small, portable implement containing fuel which produces a flame with which to light a cigarette
  • cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • collieshangie — a quarrel
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
  • corn exchange — A corn exchange is a large building where, in former times, grain was bought and sold.
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • counterchange — to change parts, qualities, etc
  • countercharge — a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • cryptographer — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • curb exchange — American Stock Exchange.
  • cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
  • dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
  • daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
  • demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • discographies — Plural form of discography.
  • disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
  • encephalalgia — pain in the head; headache
  • encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
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