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14-letter words containing c, l, a, r, s, h

  • christmas seal — a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.
  • clabber cheese — cottage cheese.
  • clamshell door — Often, clamshell doors. a door consisting of two panels that spread open vertically, as those located on the underside of some cargo planes.
  • claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
  • claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
  • cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • eyeball search — (jargon)   (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
  • grammar school — an elementary school.
  • halicarnassian — an ancient city of Caria, in SW Asia Minor: site of the Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
  • hanging scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
  • hardshell clam — quahog.
  • health service — system of medical care
  • hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
  • heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
  • historicalness — The quality of being historical.
  • histrionically — of or relating to actors or acting.
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
  • humoristically — In a humoristic way.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • hypersonically — In a hypersonic way.
  • hypocoristical — (rare) synonym of hypocoristic.
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