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14-letter words containing c, h, o, n

  • 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.
  • convent school — A convent school is a school where many of the teachers are nuns.
  • coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
  • coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
  • coquettishness — The state or quality of being coquettish.
  • corticotrophin — (hormone) adrenocorticotropic hormone.
  • costume change — a change of costume by an actor
  • cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
  • cough medicine — Cough medicine is liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
  • council school — (esp formerly) any school maintained by the state
  • count the cost — If someone counts the cost of something that has happened or will happen, they consider how the consequences of that action or event affect them.
  • counter-thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
  • counterchanged — Exchanged.
  • countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
  • countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
  • countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
  • counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
  • countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
  • countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
  • counterpunched — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpunch.
  • counterpuncher — a boxer who waits for an opponent to attack before punching
  • counterpunches — Plural form of counterpunch.
  • 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
  • county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
  • court of honor — the planning body of a girl-scout troop, composed of patrol leaders, the troop scribe, the troop treasurer, and the adult troop leader.
  • courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
  • cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
  • cytopathogenic — causing cytopathy
  • cytotechnology — the microscopic analysis of cells for the early detection of abnormalities and diagnosis of diseases such as cancer
  • dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
  • dcc technology — DCC technology uses a catalytic process to convert heavy hydrocarbons into light olefins.
  • dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
  • diachronically — in a diachronic fashion
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