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14-letter words containing a, n, e, s, t, h

  • burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
  • bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • can't help sth — If you can't help the way you feel or behave, you cannot control it or stop it happening. You can also say that you can't help yourself.
  • canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
  • cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
  • casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
  • castle shannon — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • chase pointers — (programming)   To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chest expander — a device for strengthening the chest muscles, consisting of two handles attached to strong springs or elastic cords that the user pulls apart across the chest
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
  • christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
  • christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
  • container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
  • costume change — a change of costume by an actor
  • countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
  • countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
  • death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
  • death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
  • death sentence — A death sentence is a punishment of death given by a judge to someone who has been found guilty of a serious crime such as murder.
  • deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
  • dechristianize — to make non-Christian
  • dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
  • dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
  • desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
  • disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
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