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13-letter words containing c, e, i

  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • chemical peel — a cosmetic treatment used to eliminate wrinkles, blemishes, etc., in which an acid is applied to the face, neck, or hands, causing a layer of skin to peel off.
  • chemical pulp — wood pulp made from chemically treated and cooked wood fibers and used in the manufacture of better grades of paper.
  • chemin de fer — a gambling game, a variation of baccarat
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • chemistry set — equipment and chemicals that enable a child to do experiments
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • cherry picker — a hydraulic crane, esp one mounted on a lorry, that has an elbow joint or telescopic arm supporting a basket-like platform enabling a person to service high power lines or to carry out similar operations above the ground
  • cherry-picker — a moveable boom, having a bucketlike attachment at its top that is large enough to carry a worker: used for repairing telephone lines, pruning trees, etc.
  • cheshire east — a unitary authority in NW England. Administrative centre: Sandbach. Pop: 358 900 (2008 est). Area: 1160 sq km (448 sq miles)
  • chester white — a variety of large, white hog
  • chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
  • cheviot hills — a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland, mainly in Northumberland
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • 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.
  • chicken adder — milk snake.
  • chicken divan — a casserole of boned chicken breast, broccoli or asparagus spears, and cheese sauce
  • chicken liver — the liver of chicken, considered as food
  • chicken louse — a louse, Menopon pallidum (or gallinae); a parasite of poultry: order Mallophaga (bird lice)
  • chicken snake — rat snake
  • chicken-fried — (of meats, esp steak) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
  • chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
  • chief justice — A Chief Justice is the most important judge of a court of law, especially a supreme court.
  • chief-officer — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
  • chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
  • child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
  • child cruelty — cruelty directed against children
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • child rearing — the activity of rearing children
  • child version — (system management)   In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
  • child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • childlessness — The state of being childless.
  • childlikeness — the character of being like a child
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chile relleno — a Mexican dish of a green chile, usually hot, stuffed as with cheese or a meat mixture, then breaded and fried and served usually with a sauce
  • 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.
  • chili relleno — chile relleno
  • chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
  • chiloe island — an island administered by Chile, off the W coast of South America in the Pacific Ocean: timber. Pop: 154 775 (2002, Chiloé province). Area: 8394 sq km (3240 sq miles)
  • chime in with — If one thing chimes in with another thing or chimes with it, the two things are similar or consistent with each other.
  • chimney piece — mantelpiece
  • chimney place — an open hearth.
  • chimney stack — A chimney stack is the brick or stone part of a chimney that is above the roof of a building.
  • chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
  • chimney swift — a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
  • chimney wheel — smokejack.
  • chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
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