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14-letter words containing c, h, e, n, i, g

  • psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
  • ranch dressing — seasoned mayonnaise sauce
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • recording head — the part of a tape recorder that records a sound source by converting the electrical analog of the sound, as from a microphone, into a magnetic signal for storage on magnetic tape.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • rowing machine — an exercise machine having a mechanism with two oarlike handles, foot braces, and a sliding seat, allowing the user to go through the motions of rowing in a racing shell.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
  • screen sharing — audiographic teleconferencing
  • self-enriching — to supply with riches, wealth, abundant or valuable possessions, etc.: Commerce enriches a nation.
  • self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • sewing machine — any of various foot-operated or electric machines for sewing or making stitches, ranging from machines with a shuttle for a spool of thread and a needle for sewing garments to industrial machines for sewing leather, book pages together, etc.
  • shipping clerk — a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • sleeping chair — a chair of the 17th century, having a high back, usually adjustable, with deep wings of the same height.
  • sleeping porch — a porch enclosed with glass or screening or a room with open sides or a row of windows used for sleeping in the open air.
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • sowing machine — a machine that scatters seeds on land so that they may grow
  • speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • spine-chilling — very frightening or horrifying.
  • spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • un-challenging — offering a challenge; testing one's ability, endurance, etc: a challenging course; a challenging game.
  • unchangingness — the quality or state of not changing
  • virginia beach — a town in SE Virginia.
  • voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
  • wang ching-wei — 1883–1944, Chinese political leader.
  • wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
  • whale watching — the activity of observing whales in their natural surroundings
  • wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
  • whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
  • whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
  • winnipeg couch — a couch with no arms or back, opening out into a double bed
  • yang chen ning — born 1922, Chinese physicist in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1957.
  • zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
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