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14-letter words containing c, h, i, n, l

  • inapproachable — not approachable.
  • indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
  • indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
  • interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
  • interparochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • into the black — into a profitable condition financially
  • john q. public — the average or typical U.S. citizen: an entertainment aimed at Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public.
  • keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
  • khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
  • kitchen police — soldiers detailed by roster or as punishment to assist in kitchen duties.
  • kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
  • kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
  • lake champlain — a lake in the northeastern US, between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains: linked by the Champlain Canal to the Hudson River and by the Richelieu River to the St Lawrence; a major communications route in colonial times
  • lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • licentiateship — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
  • lichenological — relating to lichenology
  • life-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • lip microphone — a microphone designed and shaped to be held close to the mouth, for use in noisy environments
  • liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
  • logic-chopping — the use of excessively subtle argument
  • lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
  • machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • mail exchanger — (messaging)   A server running SMTP Message Transfer Agent software that accepts incoming electronic mail and either delivers it locally or forwards it to another server. The mail exchanger to use for a given domain can be discovered by querying DNS for Mail Exchange Records.
  • mainland china — the People's Republic of China, as distinguished from Taiwan.
  • marginal hacks — (humour)   Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • mechanicalness — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being mechanical.
  • mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
  • medicine wheel — a Native American ceremonial tool representing a sacred circle
  • melancholiness — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
  • merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
  • michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
  • middle chinese — the Chinese language of the 7th and 8th centuries a.d. Abbreviation: MChin.
  • misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • mnemotechnical — Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
  • 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.
  • monolithically — of or relating to a monolith.
  • monophonically — In a monophonic manner.
  • monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
  • monotheletical — like a monothelete
  • mont-st-michel — islet just off the NW coast of France, noted for its fortified abbey
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
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