14-letter words containing c, h, t, o
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
- cloister garth — garth (def 1).
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- coach operator — a company that operates a business involving the transport of passengers in coaches
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- coal-tar pitch — a residue left by the distillation of coal tar: a mixture of hydrocarbons and finely divided carbon used as a binder for fuel briquettes, road surfaces, and carbon electrodes
- code of ethics — an agreement on ethical standards for a profession or business
- code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
- come down with — If you come down with an illness, you get it.
- come to a halt — stop suddenly
- come to a head — to be about to discharge pus
- come to nought — If you try to do something but your efforts are not successful, you can say that your efforts come to nought.
- commandantship — the office of a commandant
- community home — a home provided by a local authority for children who cannot remain with parents or relatives, or be placed with foster parents
- complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
- composite shot — split screen.
- composite-shot — Also called composite shot. Movies, Television. a type of process photography in which two or more shots are juxtaposed and projected simultaneously on the screen.
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- computerphobic — a computerphobe
- coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
- consultantship — the office or function of a consultant
- contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
- container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
- 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.
- cook the books — to make fraudulent alterations to business or other accounts
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- coquettishness — The state or quality of being coquettish.
- coquilhatville — former name of Mbandaka.
- 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
- cost the earth — to be very expensive
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
- cottage cheese — Cottage cheese is a soft, white, lumpy cheese made from sour milk.
- cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
- 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.