14-letter words containing c, h, i, n, g
- steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
- stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
- straight chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straight-chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straining arch — an arch for resisting thrusts, as in a flying buttress.
- 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
- tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- thanatological — relating to thanatology, the study of death and dying
- thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
- throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
- track lighting — lighting for a room or other area in which individual spotlight fixtures are attached along a narrow, wall- or ceiling-mounted metal track through which current is conducted, permitting flexible positioning of the lights.
- 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.
- ulrich zwingli — Ulrich [oo l-rikh] /ˈʊl rɪx/ (Show IPA), or Huldreich [hoo l-drahykh] /ˈhʊl draɪx/ (Show IPA), 1484–1531, Swiss Protestant reformer.
- 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.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- 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
- ward cunnigham — (person) The creator of the first wiki.
- 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.
- whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
- whooping cough — an infectious disease of the respiratory mucous membrane, caused by Bordetella pertussis, characterized by a series of short, convulsive coughs followed by a deep inspiration accompanied by a whooping sound.
- 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