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19-letter words containing c, h, e, r, n

  • christmas pantomime — pantomime (def 5).
  • chronological order — the arrangement of things following one after another in time: Put these documents in chronological order.
  • cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
  • co-respondent shoes — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
  • coherent parallel c — (language)   A data parallel version of C.
  • columnar epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of elongated cells of cylindrical or prismatic shape.
  • combination therapy — a therapy that combines two or more drugs, or two or more treatments
  • come into the world — to be born
  • commission merchant — a person who buys or sells goods for others on a commission basis
  • common area charges — (in the US) charges paid by tenants for the maintenance of the common areas of a block of flats
  • confectioner's shop — a sweet shop
  • congestion charging — the practice of charging motorists for the right to drive on busy roads, esp at busy times
  • contradistinguished — Simple past tense and past participle of contradistinguish.
  • contradistinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contradistinguish.
  • convergent thinking — analytical, usually deductive, thinking in which ideas are examined for their logical validity or in which a set of rules is followed, e.g. in arithmetic
  • corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
  • counterpoint-rhythm — Music. the art of combining melodies.
  • craters of the moon — a national monument in S Idaho: site of scenic lava-flow formations.
  • cray research, inc. — (company)   US manufacturer of large powerful mainframe supercomputers, co-founded by noted computer architect, Seymour Cray. Quarterly sales $216M, profits $8M (Aug 1994). Cray were bought by Silicon Graphics, Inc..
  • credit someone with — to believe that someone has or is responsible for; ascribe to someone
  • crinoline stretcher — (on a Windsor chair) a stretcher having an inwardly curved piece connecting the front legs, and connected to the back legs by short, straight pieces.
  • cross-channel ferry — a ferry that transports passengers and vehicles across the English Channel
  • data driven machine — (language)   (DDM) A dataflow language.
  • dendrochronological — Pertaining to dendrochronology.
  • department chairman — the chairman of a university department
  • devils-on-horseback — a savoury of prunes wrapped in bacon slices and served on toast
  • dielectric strength — the maximum voltage that can be applied to a given material without causing it to break down, usually expressed in volts or kilovolts per unit of thickness.
  • dihydrostreptomycin — an antibiotic, C 21 H 41 N 7 O 12 , derived by organic synthesis from and believed to be less toxic than streptomycin: used in the form of its sulfate chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • direct grant school — (in Britain, formerly) a school financed by endowment, fees, and a state grant conditional upon admittance of a percentage of nonpaying pupils nominated by the local education authority
  • disenfranchisements — Plural form of disenfranchisement.
  • dispatch department — the department of an organization responsible for the dispatch of orders
  • domain architecture — (systems analysis)   A generic, organisational structure or design for software systems in a domain. The domain architecture contains the designs that are intended to satisfy requirements specified in the domain model. A domain architecture can be adapted to create designs for software systems within a domain and also provides a framework for configuring assets within individual software systems.
  • dominance hierarchy — a system or set of relationships in animal groups that is based on a hierarchical ranking, usually established and maintained by behavior in aggressive encounters: one or a few members hold the highest rank and the others are submissive to those ranking higher and dominant to those ranking lower.
  • draw the color line — to impose or accept the color line
  • draw the curtain on — to end
  • dutchman's-breeches — a plant, Dicentra cucullaria, of the fumitory family, having long clusters of pale-yellow, two-spurred flowers.
  • echoencephalography — a device that employs reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the position of brain structures.
  • electro-shock baton — a baton used as a weapon to pass an electric current through part of the body
  • electrohydrodynamic — (physics) Of or pertaining to electrohydrodynamics.
  • electromechanically — In an electromechanical way.
  • electron micrograph — a photograph or image of a specimen taken using an electron microscope
  • electronic graphics — (on television) the production of graphic designs and text by electronic means
  • emergency telephone — a public telephone intended for use in emergencies: for example, at the side of a motorway
  • euclidean algorithm — Euclid's Algorithm
  • feynman, richard p. — Richard P. Feynman
  • fighter-interceptor — a fighter plane used for the defense of a region against air attack, especially by attacking bombers.
  • fixed exchange rate — finance: set rate of exchange
  • flannelmouth sucker — a sucker, Catostomus latipinnis, of the Colorado River and its tributaries.
  • focal plane shutter — an opaque shield in a camera, lying in the focal plane of the lens, that, when tripped, admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second
  • focal-plane shutter — a camera shutter situated directly in front of the film.
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