14-letter words containing a, c, h, g
- body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
- boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
- brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
- branch manager — a person who manages the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
- breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
- bronchorrhagia — hemorrhage from the bronchial tubes.
- cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- calligraphical — calligraphic
- cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
- campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
- carriage horse — a horse trained and groomed to draw carriages.
- carriage house — coach house.
- cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
- casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
- catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
- cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
- cavalry charge — a charge by mounted troops
- champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
- change machine — a machine that provides smaller denomination coins or notes in exchange for larger ones
- change of life — The change of life is the menopause.
- change of pace — variation in tempo or mood, in the presentation of acts in a variety show, etc.
- change ringing — the art of ringing a series of tuned bells of different tones, as those hung in a church tower, according to any of various orderly sequences.
- change-ringing — the art of bell-ringing in which a set of bells is rung in an established order which is then changed
- changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
- changelessness — The state or quality of being changeless.
- characterising — Present participle of characterise.
- characterizing — Present participle of characterize.
- characterology — the academic study of character
- charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
- charge carrier — an electron, hole, or ion that transports the electric charge in an electric current
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- charge-a-plate — charge plate.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
- chauvinist pig — a sexist man
- checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
- chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
- chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
- chicago school — a group of Chicago architects active between c1880 and c1910 and known for major developments in skyscraper design and for experiments in a modern architectural style appropriate especially to business and industrial buildings: two of the best-known members were Louis Sullivan and John Wellborn Root.
- chicago window — a composite window, horizontal in character, consisting of a large, fixed sheet of glass between two vertical windows with sash for ventilation, first popularized in commercial buildings in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s.
- child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
- chinook jargon — a pidgin language containing elements of Native American languages, English, and French: formerly used among fur traders and Indians on the NW coast of North America
- chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
- chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
- cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
- chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- choreographers — Plural form of choreographer.