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13-letter words containing c, l, e

  • charlier shoe — special light horseshoe
  • charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
  • charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
  • charter plane — a plane that has been chartered
  • chastity belt — a locking beltlike device with a loop designed to go between a woman's legs in order to prevent her from having sexual intercourse
  • chattel house — (esp in Barbados) a movable wooden dwelling, usually set on a foundation of loose stones on rented land
  • checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • checkout line — A checkout line is a line of customers waiting to pay at a checkout counter.
  • cheek by jowl — If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other.
  • cheerlessness — The state or characteristic of being cheerless.
  • cheiloschisis — Cleft lip.
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • chemical peel — a cosmetic treatment used to eliminate wrinkles, blemishes, etc., in which an acid is applied to the face, neck, or hands, causing a layer of skin to peel off.
  • chemical pulp — wood pulp made from chemically treated and cooked wood fibers and used in the manufacture of better grades of paper.
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • cherry laurel — a Eurasian rosaceous evergreen shrub, Prunus laurocerasus, having glossy aromatic leaves, white flowers, and purplish-black fruits
  • chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
  • chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
  • chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
  • cheval screen — a fire screen, usually with a cloth panel, having supports at the ends and mounted on legs.
  • cheviot hills — a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland, mainly in Northumberland
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
  • chicken liver — the liver of chicken, considered as food
  • chicken louse — a louse, Menopon pallidum (or gallinae); a parasite of poultry: order Mallophaga (bird lice)
  • child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
  • child cruelty — cruelty directed against children
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • child rearing — the activity of rearing children
  • child version — (system management)   In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
  • child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • childlessness — The state of being childless.
  • childlikeness — the character of being like a child
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chile relleno — a Mexican dish of a green chile, usually hot, stuffed as with cheese or a meat mixture, then breaded and fried and served usually with a sauce
  • chilean guava — a tropical shrub or small tree, Ugni molinae, of the myrtle family, having leathery, oval leaves, rose-pink flowers, and blue-black, edible fruit.
  • chili relleno — chile relleno
  • chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
  • chiloe island — an island administered by Chile, off the W coast of South America in the Pacific Ocean: timber. Pop: 154 775 (2002, Chiloé province). Area: 8394 sq km (3240 sq miles)
  • chimney place — an open hearth.
  • chimney wheel — smokejack.
  • chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
  • chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
  • chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
  • chlorhexidine — an antiseptic compound used in skin cleansers, mouthwashes, etc
  • chlormerodrin — a white, bitter, odorless powder, ClHgN 2 H 11 O 2 , soluble in methanol and ethanol and slightly soluble in water, used in medicine as a diuretic.
  • chloroacetone — a colorless, lachrymatory, poisonous liquid, C 3 H 5 ClO, used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of insecticides and perfumes.
  • chlorobenzene — a colourless volatile flammable insoluble liquid with an almond-like odour, made from chlorine and benzene and used as a solvent and in the preparation of many organic compounds, esp phenol and DDT. Formula: C6H5Cl
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