14-letter words containing c, h, o, s
- the mesolithic — the Mesolithic period; Middle Stone Age
- the omniscient — God
- the soo canals — the two ship canals linking Lakes Superior and Huron. There is a canal on the Canadian and on the US side of the rapids of the St Mary's River
- the true cross — the cross on which Christ was crucified, supposed relics of which were venerated by Christians in the middle ages
- theotocopoulos — Domenikos [th aw-men-ee-kaws] /ðɔˈmɛn i kɔs/ (Show IPA), El Greco.
- thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
- thermochromism — a phenomenon in which certain dyes made from liquid crystals change colour reversibly when their temperature is changed
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- thomson effect — the tendency of unevenly heated segments of a strip of a conductor to increase or decrease in temperature differences when an electric current is passed through the strip.
- thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
- throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
- thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
- thyrotoxicosis — Graves' disease.
- to be slouched — to sit, lie or lean in an ungainly way, with one's limbs spread out
- to be the case — If you say that something is the case, you mean that it is true or correct.
- top-hat scheme — a pension scheme for the senior executives of an organization
- tortilla chips — snack food: corn crisps
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- trichomoniasis — a sexually transmitted disease typically asymptomatic in men and resulting in vaginitis with a copious, frothy discharge and itching in women, caused by a trichomonad Trichomonas vaginalis.
- trichophytosis — a skin infection caused by a trichophyton
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.
- two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
- unicorn chaser — originally a picture of a unicorn posted on a blog site shortly after an offensive or disturbing picture has been posted, as a kind of antidote to the previous post. Now used of a comforting or innocent image, video clip, or topic viewed or contemplated following a previous, disturbing image, video, etc.
- unsophisticate — not sophisticated
- unsynchronized — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- village school — a school in a village
- volksdeutscher — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- voucher system — Accounting. a procedure for controlling disbursements by means of vouchers.
- wainscot chair — an armchair of the 17th century, made of oak and having a solid paneled back.
- warehouse club — A warehouse club is a large shop which sells goods at reduced prices to people who pay each year to become members of the organization that runs the shop.
- whorehouse cut — a cut in which a pack is divided into two parts, each of which is divided again before the pack is reassembled.
- winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
- witches'-besom — witches'-broom.
- witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
- worcestershire — a former county in W central England, now part of Hereford and Worcester.
- zinc phosphide — a dark-gray, gritty, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Zn 3 P 2 , used chiefly as a rodenticide.