13-letter words containing c, o, h
- chronotherapy — an endeavour to readjust the body clock to enable a person to waken earlier by going to sleep later and later every day until the required waking hour is achieved
- chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
- chrysophenine — a bright yellow dye derived from stilbene, used chiefly for dyeing leather and textiles.
- chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
- chrysotherapy — gold therapy.
- chthonophagia — (disease) A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.
- chukka (boot) — an ankle-high bootlike shoe, usually with two or three pairs of eyelets
- chun doo hwan — born 1931, South Korean political leader: president 1980–88.
- church of god — any of numerous Protestant denominations that stress personal conversion, sanctification, the imminent return of Jesus Christ, baptism by immersion, and, among some, speaking in tongues.
- church school — A church school is a school which has a special relationship with a particular branch of the Christian church, and where there is strong emphasis on worship and the teaching of religion.
- churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- chylification — the process of turning into chyle
- chylophyllous — having fleshy leaves, as certain desert plants.
- chymification — the process of turning into chyme
- cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
- cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
- cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
- city of light — Paris2
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
- cleaner tooth — a saw tooth for cleaning loose chips from a kerf.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- cleistothecia — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
- click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- climatography — an account of a region's climate
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
- clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
- close at hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
- close to home — affecting sb personally
- close-at-hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
- cloth of gold — cloth woven from silk threads interspersed with gold
- cloth-of-gold — a garden plant, Crocus augustifolius, of the iris family, native to the Crimean mountains, having orange-red flowers.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- clothes horse — A clothes horse is a folding frame used inside someone's house to hang washing on while it dries.
- clothes-horse — Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
- clothes-press — a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- clotheshorses — Plural form of clotheshorse.
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- cloud physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
- cloven-hoofed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor