14-letter words containing c, h, r, o
- container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
- controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- corpus christi — a festival in honour of the Eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday
- corticotrophic — stimulating the adrenal cortex; adrenocorticotrophic
- corticotrophin — (hormone) adrenocorticotropic hormone.
- cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
- cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- cost the earth — to be very expensive
- 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.
- 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.
- courtesy coach — a free coach
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- crash for cash — denoting a type of insurance fraud in which people bring about road accidents to ensure that a substantial claim is made
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- 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.
- croagh patrick — a mountain in NW Republic of Ireland, in Mayo: a place of pilgrimage as Saint Patrick is said to have prayed and fasted there. Height: 765 m (2510 ft)
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- 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 my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
- 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.
- cruft together — (jargon) To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
- cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- cryptorchidism — a congenital condition in which one or both testicles fail to descend into the scrotum
- crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
- cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
- curiosity shop — a shop selling unusual items and curios
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.