13-letter words containing c, h, e
- clothes-horse — Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
- clothes-press — a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- clotheshorses — Plural form of clotheshorse.
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- cloven-hoofed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
- cocaine habit — an addiction to cocaine
- cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
- cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
- cochleariform — having a spoon shape
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
- cohesive soil — sticky soil such as clay or clayey silt whose strength depends on the surface tension of capillary water
- coinheritance — joint inheritance
- cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
- cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
- coldheartedly — Alternative spelling of cold-heartedly.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
- colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- come in handy — If something comes in handy, it is useful in a particular situation.
- come out with — If you come out with a remark, especially a surprising one, you make it.
- come to light — to be revealed
- come up short — disappoint
- come what may — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- commandership — a person who commands.
- committeeship — (formerly) the office of a person to whom the care of a mentally incompetent person or his or her property was entrusted by a court
- commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
- compiled html — (filename extension) A Microsoft file format for distributing a collection of HTML files, along with their associated images, sounds, etc., as a single compressed archive file. Microsoft use this format for Windows HTML Help files. Most chms include a project (.hhp) file listing the included files and basic settings, a contents (.hhc) file, an index (.hhk) file, html files, and, optionally, image files. Users view chms with hh.exe, the HTML Help viewer installed with Internet Explorer. Filename extension: .chm.
- complete with — If one thing comes complete with another, it has that thing as an extra or additional part.
- comprehendeth — Archaic third-person singular form of comprehend.
- comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- comprehension — Comprehension is the ability to understand something.
- comprehensive — Something that is comprehensive includes everything that is needed or relevant.
- computer chip — a small integrated circuit of a kind used in computers
- computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers
- concert pitch — the frequency of 440 hertz assigned to the A above middle C
- conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
- conduct sheet — a form for detailing information about a person's offences and punishments
- confessorship — the office or function of a confessor
- conidiophores — Plural form of conidiophore.
- coniferophyte — (biology) conifer.
- contact sheet — a contact print, usually of all frames of a developed roll of negative print film, used as a proof print.
- containership — a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo