14-letter words containing c, h, i, o, g
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
- cloister garth — garth (def 1).
- coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
- code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
- coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- cough medicine — Cough medicine is liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- croagh patrick — a mountain in NW Republic of Ireland, in Mayo: a place of pilgrimage as Saint Patrick is said to have prayed and fasted there. Height: 765 m (2510 ft)
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
- cytopathogenic — causing cytopathy
- cytopathologic — the science dealing with the study of the diseases of cells.
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- driving school — vehicle operation lessons
- echocardiogram — a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
- election night — the evening when the votes from an election are being counted
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
- eschatological — Pertaining to eschatology.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethnologically — In an ethnological manner or fashion.
- etiopathogenic — Of or pertaining to etiopathogenesis.
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- flight control — the direction of airplane movements, especially takeoffs and landings, by messages from the ground.
- flight officer — an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, having a rank equivalent to that of a warrant officer junior grade.
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
- galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
- garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
- genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes