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14-letter words containing c, h, r, i

  • technothriller — a suspense novel in which the manipulation of sophisticated technology, as of aircraft or weapons systems, plays a prominent part.
  • thaumaturgical — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • the archeozoic — the Archean (see phrase under Archean)
  • the charioteer — the constellation Auriga
  • the cordeliers — a political club founded in 1790 and meeting at an old Cordelier convent in Paris
  • the cryptozoic — the Cryptozoic era
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the resistance — an illegal organization fighting for national liberty in a country under enemy occupation, esp in France during World War II
  • the rheumatics — rheumatic pains
  • theocentricity — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
  • therianthropic — being partly bestial and partly human in form.
  • 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.
  • thermoelectric — of, relating to, or involving the direct relationship between heat and electricity.
  • thermojunction — a point of electrical contact between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears, the magnitude of which depends on the temperature of the contact and the nature of the metals
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • thermoperiodic — responding to or affected by periodic differences in temperatures.
  • thick register — chest register.
  • third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
  • thromboembolic — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
  • 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.
  • thyrotoxicosis — Graves' disease.
  • tiruchirapalli — a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India, on the Kaveri River.
  • tiruchirappali — a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India, on the Kaveri River.
  • tortilla chips — snack food: corn crisps
  • track lighting — lighting for a room or other area in which individual spotlight fixtures are attached along a narrow, wall- or ceiling-mounted metal track through which current is conducted, permitting flexible positioning of the lights.
  • traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
  • traffic lights — a set of coloured lights placed at crossroads, junctions, etc, to control the flow of traffic
  • trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • trichloracetic — as in trichloracetic acid
  • trichobacteria — filamentous bacteria
  • trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
  • 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
  • trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
  • tripe-de-roche — rock tripe.
  • trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
  • triumphal arch — a monumental archway, often erected in permanent materials as a commemorative structure, straddling the line of march of a victorious army during a triumphal procession.
  • tropical month — the period of time taken by the moon to return to the same longitude after one complete revolution around the earth; 27.321 58 days (approximately 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.5 seconds)
  • truth-function — a statement so constructed from other statements that its truth-value depends on the truth-values of the other statements rather than on their meanings.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.
  • turn the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • tymshare, inc. — (company)   The US company that created the TYMNET network.
  • ulrich zwingli — Ulrich [oo l-rikh] /ˈʊl rɪx/ (Show IPA), or Huldreich [hoo l-drahykh] /ˈhʊl draɪx/ (Show IPA), 1484–1531, Swiss Protestant reformer.
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