15-letter words containing c, h, a, l, o, i
- calydonian hunt — the pursuit by Meleager, Atalanta, and others of a savage boar (Calydonian boar) sent by Artemis to lay waste to Calydon.
- camphorated oil — a liniment consisting of camphor and peanut oil, used as a counterirritant
- cardinal humour — any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition
- cathedral choir — the choir, traditionally consisting of boys and men, that sings in cathedral services
- catholic church — any of several Churches claiming to have maintained continuity with the ancient and undivided Church
- catholic school — a school that includes instruction in Roman Catholic faith in its curriculum, with teachers who are often nuns or monks
- caustic alcohol — sodium ethylate.
- cephalothoracic — the anterior part of the body in certain arachnids and crustaceans, consisting of the coalesced head and thorax.
- chamois leather — soft cleaning cloth
- chandler period — the period of the oscillation (Chandler wobble) of the earth's axis, varying between 416 and 433 days.
- channel hopping — (chat) To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board. This term may derive from the TV idiom, "channel surfing".
- channel-hopping — Channel-hopping means switching quickly between different television channels because you are looking for something interesting to watch.
- charles simonyi — (person) Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond.
- charlottesville — city in central Va.: pop. 45,000
- chartophylacium — (in a medieval church) a place for the keeping of records and documents.
- chaulmoogra oil — a brownish-yellow oil or soft fat expressed from the seeds of a chaulmoogra tree, used formerly in the treatment of leprosy and skin diseases.
- chemical toilet — a toilet in which waste is treated with chemicals
- chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
- chicken cholera — fowl cholera.
- chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
- child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
- chile con carne — chili con carne
- chili con carne — Chili con carne is a dish made from meat, with a thick sauce of tomatoes, and powdered or fresh chilies.
- chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
- chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
- cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
- cholangiography — radiographic examination of the bile ducts after the introduction into them of a contrast medium
- cholecalciferol — a compound occurring naturally in fish-liver oils, used to treat rickets. Formula: C27H44O
- cholesterolemia — the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- cholinergically — in a cholinergic manner
- choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
- chorioallantoic — relating to the chorioallantois
- chorioallantois — the membrane of a fetus that is formed by the merging of the allantois and the chorion
- christmas carol — a joyful hymn or religious song, celebrating the birth of Christ
- chromatic scale — a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
- chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
- chronologically — arranged in the order of time: a chronological list of events.
- church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
- claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
- cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
- complex-machine — Older Use. an automobile or airplane. a typewriter.
- corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
- corticothalamic — Of or pertaining to the cortex and the thalamus.
- council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- crawling horror — (jargon) Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
- cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
- cryptographical — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
- cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top