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14-letter words containing c, h, o, i, s

  • claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
  • coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
  • cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
  • code of ethics — an agreement on ethical standards for a profession or business
  • 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.
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
  • commandantship — the office of a commandant
  • companionships — Plural form of companionship.
  • composite shot — split screen.
  • composite-shot — Also called composite shot. Movies, Television. a type of process photography in which two or more shots are juxtaposed and projected simultaneously on the screen.
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • comprehensions — Plural form of comprehension.
  • comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
  • conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
  • coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
  • consultantship — the office or function of a consultant
  • container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
  • context switch — (operating system)   When a multitasking operating system stops running one process and starts running another. Many operating systems implement concurrency by maintaining separate environments or "contexts" for each process. The amount of separation between processes, and the amount of information in a context, depends on the operating system but generally the OS should prevent processes interfering with each other, e.g. by modifying each other's memory. A context switch can be as simple as changing the value of the program counter and stack pointer or it might involve resetting the MMU to make a different set of memory pages available. In order to present the user with an impression of parallism, and to allow processes to respond quickly to external events, many systems will context switch tens or hundreds of times per second.
  • controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
  • coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
  • coquettishness — The state or quality of being coquettish.
  • corpus christi — a festival in honour of the Eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday
  • cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
  • cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
  • cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
  • cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
  • council school — (esp formerly) any school maintained by the state
  • 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
  • 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
  • credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
  • 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.
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • cryptorchidism — a congenital condition in which one or both testicles fail to descend into the scrotum
  • cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
  • curiosity shop — a shop selling unusual items and curios
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cut-off switch — a switch that cuts off the supply of electricity
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