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14-letter words containing c, h, i, l, d, e

  • helicopter pad — landing area
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
  • highly charged — electrical
  • hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
  • hollerith code — a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values in a vertical column.
  • hybrid vehicle — A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle using two different forms of power, such as an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor with a battery and fuel cells for energy storage.
  • hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
  • hydrocephaloid — resembling hydrocephalus.
  • hydrochlorides — Plural form of hydrochloride.
  • hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
  • hypercivilized — Very highly civilized.
  • hyperlipidemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; lipemia.
  • hypodermically — By hypodermic means.
  • idle character — a transmitted control character that holds a position but does not appear in the output at the receiver.
  • immethodically — Unmethodically.
  • indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
  • indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
  • latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
  • lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • little richard — (Richard Wayne Penniman) born 1932, U.S. rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist.
  • medical ethics — the code of behaviour considered to be correct for members of the medical profession
  • medical school — university where medical degrees are taught
  • medicine wheel — a Native American ceremonial tool representing a sacred circle
  • merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
  • methodological — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
  • michael jordanBarbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
  • middle chinese — the Chinese language of the 7th and 8th centuries a.d. Abbreviation: MChin.
  • model checking — (theory, algorithm, testing)   To algorithmically check whether a program (the model) satisfies a specification. The model is usually expressed as a directed graph consisting of nodes (or vertices) and edges. A set of atomic propositions is associated with each node. The nodes represents states of a program, the edges represent possible executions which alters the state, while the atomic propositions represent the basic properties that hold at a point of execution. A specification language, usually some kind of temporal logic, is used to express properties. The problem can be expressed mathematically as: given a temporal logic formula p and a model M with initial state s, decide if M,s \models p.
  • multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
  • old school tie — a necktie striped in the colors of a specific English public school, especially as worn by a graduate to indicate his educational background.
  • orchard oriole — a North American oriole, Icterus spurius, the male of which is chestnut and black.
  • photoduplicate — photocopy.
  • pitch cylinder — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pitched battle — a battle in which the orderly arrangement of armed forces and the location have been predetermined.
  • polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
  • prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
  • pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
  • residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
  • sandhill crane — a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • school edition — a special edition of a book for distribution to schools or colleges, subject to a special rate of discount, sometimes without a dust jacket (distinguished from trade edition).
  • schoolchildren — a child attending school.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • shield cricket — the interstate cricket competition held for the Sheffield Shield
  • shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
  • soldier orchid — a European orchid, Orchis militaris, having pale purple flowers with a four-lobed lower lip
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