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13-letter words containing c, h, e, r

  • chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
  • checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • cheddar gorge — a pass through the Mendip Hills renowned for its stalactitic caverns and rare limestone flora
  • cheerer-upper — a person or thing that cheers a person up: A good joke is the best cheerer-upper.
  • cheerlessness — The state or characteristic of being cheerless.
  • cheese grater — an implement for grating cheese
  • cheese spread — a processed cheese of smooth and spreadable consistency.
  • cheeseburgers — Plural form of cheeseburger.
  • cheesemongers — Plural form of cheesemonger.
  • chef-d'oeuvre — a masterpiece
  • cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
  • chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
  • 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
  • chemoreceptor — a sensory receptor in a biological cell membrane to which an external molecule binds to generate a smell or taste sensation
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • cherokee rose — an evergreen climbing Chinese rose, Rosa laevigata, that now grows wild in the southern US, having large white fragrant flowers
  • cherry brandy — a red liqueur made of brandy flavoured with cherries
  • cherry laurel — a Eurasian rosaceous evergreen shrub, Prunus laurocerasus, having glossy aromatic leaves, white flowers, and purplish-black fruits
  • cherry pepper — a variety of pepper, Capsicum annuum cerasiforme, having rounded, usually pungent fruit.
  • 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 tomato — a miniature tomato not much bigger than a cherry
  • 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)
  • chest freezer — a freezer shaped like a chest with a door that opens by lifting up
  • chester white — a variety of large, white hog
  • chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
  • cheval screen — a fire screen, usually with a cloth panel, having supports at the ends and mounted on legs.
  • chicago ridge — a town in NE Illinois.
  • chicken adder — milk snake.
  • chicken liver — the liver of chicken, considered as food
  • 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-officer — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
  • 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
  • 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
  • chili relleno — chile relleno
  • chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
  • chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
  • chinkerinchee — a flowering plant, Ornithogalum thyrsoides, that produces clusters of white and yellow flowers
  • chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
  • chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
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