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14-letter words containing c, h, o, l, e

  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
  • grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
  • graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
  • greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • haematological — Alternative spelling of hematological.
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • hale telescope — the 200-inch (508-cm) reflector at the Palomar Observatory.
  • half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • half-concealed — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
  • half-convinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
  • halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
  • have a lock on — to be sure of winning, gaining, or controlling
  • health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • helicopter mom — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • helicopter pad — landing area
  • heliocentrical — Alternative form of heliocentric.
  • heliosciophyte — any plant that grows in the shade, but thrives more in the sun
  • hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
  • helminthologic — of or pertaining to helminthology
  • hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
  • hemicelluloses — Plural form of hemicellulose.
  • hemipelvectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the pelvis, and the leg on that side.
  • hemlock looper — the larva of a geometrid moth, Lambdina fiscellaria, common in some areas of North America and a serious pest of various trees, as hemlock, Douglas fir, balsam spruce, and oak.
  • hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
  • hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
  • hero's welcome — a very enthusiastic reception from a group of people who show their admiration for something good that you have done
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
  • heteroclitical — (obsolete) Anomalous, heteroclite.
  • heterolecithal — having an unequal distribution of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
  • hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
  • hierographical — hierographic
  • historicalness — The quality of being historical.
  • hollerith code — a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values in a vertical column.
  • hollow-cheeked — having sunken cheeks, as from thinness
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • holy sepulcher — the sepulcher in which the body of Jesus lay between His burial and His resurrection.
  • holy sepulchre — the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion
  • home schooling — Home schooling is the practice of educating your child at home rather than in a school.
  • homeric simile — a simile developed over several lines of verse, especially one used in an epic poem.
  • homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
  • horace greeleyHorace, 1811–72, U.S. journalist, editor, and political leader.
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