14-letter words containing c, h, o, l, a
- 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).
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
- coal-tar pitch — a residue left by the distillation of coal tar: a mixture of hydrocarbons and finely divided carbon used as a binder for fuel briquettes, road surfaces, and carbon electrodes
- cochlear nerve — the branch of the auditory nerve that connects with the cochlea and transmits impulses to the hearing center of the brain
- coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
- come to a halt — stop suddenly
- complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- consultantship — the office or function of a consultant
- contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
- coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
- coquilhatville — former name of Mbandaka.
- cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
- crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
- cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- cycloaliphatic — (of an organic compound) aliphatic in chemical behaviour but having its carbon atoms in a ring
- cystolithiasis — a medical condition caused by the formation of a calculus in the bladder
- cytopathologic — the science dealing with the study of the diseases of cells.
- czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
- delphic oracle — the oracle of Apollo at Delphi that gave answers held by the ancient Greeks to be of great authority but also noted for their ambiguity
- deparochialize — to make parochial.
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- diachronically — in a diachronic fashion
- diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
- diaheliotropic — exhibiting diaheliotropism
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- dichotomically — division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- dolichocephaly — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- electrotherapy — The use of electric currents passed through the body to stimulate nerves and muscles, chiefly in the treatment of various forms of paralysis.
- electrothermal — concerned with both electricity and heat, esp the production of electricity by heat