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14-letter words containing c, o, a, h, e, s

  • costume change — a change of costume by an actor
  • cottage cheese — Cottage cheese is a soft, white, lumpy cheese made from sour milk.
  • countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
  • countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • courtesy coach — a free coach
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
  • decorated shed — a contemporary design concept characterized by buildings generally of purely utilitarian design but with fronts intended to give them more grandeur or to announce their functions.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
  • ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • eschatological — Pertaining to eschatology.
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
  • frasch process — a method of mining sulfur by pumping superheated water down into the deposit, thereby melting it so that it can be pumped to the surface.
  • free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
  • grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
  • hale telescope — the 200-inch (508-cm) reflector at the Palomar Observatory.
  • halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
  • hamito-semitic — denoting or belonging to this family of languages
  • have a case on — an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something: Sailing in such a storm was a case of poor judgment.
  • have a stomack — to be pregnant
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
  • hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
  • hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
  • hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
  • hepatopancreas — a large gland of shrimps, lobsters, and crabs that combines the functions of a liver and pancreas.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • historicalness — The quality of being historical.
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
  • horseshoe arch — an arch with the intrados widening above the springing and then narrowing to a rounded crown.
  • horseshoe back — a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.
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