14-letter words containing c, i, t, e
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chicken fillet — a fillet cut from a chicken
- chicken little — a person who spreads baseless or exaggerated reports of danger; alarmist
- chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
- chicken turtle — an edible, freshwater turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, of the southeastern U.S., characterized by a long neck and by the network of fine, yellow lines marking the dark carapace.
- chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
- chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
- child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
- chiltern hills — a range of low chalk hills in SE England extending northwards from the Thames valley. Highest point: 260 m (852 ft)
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
- chlorothiazide — a diuretic drug administered orally in the treatment of chronic heart and kidney disease and hypertension. Formula: C7H6ClN3O4S2
- chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
- chocolate milk — milk flavored with chocolate syrup or powdered chocolate.
- choir practice — a choir's regular meeting for practice
- cholelithiases — the presence of gallstones.
- cholelithiasis — the occurrence or development of gallstones in the gall bladder
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
- cholinomimetic — mimicking the action of choline, especially acetylcholine.
- choral society — an organization of amateur singers
- chrestomathies — Plural form of chrestomathy.
- christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
- christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
- christmas cake — A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries.
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
- christmas rose — an evergreen ranunculaceous plant, Helleborus niger, of S Europe and W Asia, with white or pinkish winter-blooming flowers
- christmas seal — a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.
- christmas time — the period around Christmas
- christmas tree — A Christmas tree is a fir tree, or an artificial tree that looks like a fir tree, which people put in their houses at Christmas and decorate with coloured lights and ornaments.
- christmasberry — toyon.
- christocentric — having as the theological focal point the teachings and practices of Jesus Christ.
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
- chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
- church integer — (theory) A representation of integers as functions invented by Alonzo Church, inventor of lambda-calculus. The integer N is represented as a higher-order function which applies a given function N times to a given expression. In the pure lambda-calculus there are no constants but numbers can be represented by Church integers. A Haskell function to return a given Church integer could be written: unchurch c = c (+1) 0 See also von Neumann integer.
- cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
- cigarette butt — A cigarette butt or a cigarette end is the part of a cigarette that you throw away when you have finished smoking it.
- cigarette card — a small picture card, formerly given away with cigarettes, now collected as a hobby
- cigarette case — a case of a suitable size and shape to hold cigarettes
- cigarette girl — a woman who sells cigars and cigarettes, usually from a tray displaying various brands, to customers in a restaurant or nightclub.
- cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cine projector — a machine which projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- cinnamon stone — essonite
- circuitousness — The state of being circuitous.
- circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
- circumambulate — to walk around (something)