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14-letter words containing c, l, e, n, h

  • cholinomimetic — mimicking the action of choline, especially acetylcholine.
  • chronicle play — a drama based on a historical subject
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
  • climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
  • clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • cochlear nerve — the branch of the auditory nerve that connects with the cochlea and transmits impulses to the hearing center of the brain
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
  • comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
  • comprehendible — comprehensible
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
  • 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.
  • coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
  • cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • 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.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • cytotechnology — the microscopic analysis of cells for the early detection of abnormalities and diagnosis of diseases such as cancer
  • dcc technology — DCC technology uses a catalytic process to convert heavy hydrocarbons into light olefins.
  • dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
  • dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • early check-in — An early check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in earlier than the normal time.
  • election night — the evening when the votes from an election are being counted
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • eleventh chord — a chord much used in jazz, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, and eleventh above the root
  • emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
  • encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
  • encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • encephalograph — any other apparatus used to produce an encephalogram
  • encephalopathy — A disease in which the functioning of the brain is affected by some agent or condition (such as viral infection or toxins in the blood).
  • enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
  • enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
  • epenthetically — In an epenthetic manner; by means of epenthesis.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • etching needle — a type of needle used to etch patterns or designs on printing plates
  • ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • ethnologically — In an ethnological manner or fashion.
  • ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
  • feel the pinch — If a person or company is feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
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