15-letter words containing c, r, a, s, h, o
- joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
- kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
- macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
- magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- microaerophiles — Plural form of microaerophile.
- microphysically — in a microphysical manner
- military school — military academy.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
- morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
- mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
- mushroom anchor — a stockless anchor having a bowlike head, used chiefly for semipermanent moorings.
- natal horoscope — the horoscope based on an individual's birth.
- neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- non-charismatic — of, having, or characteristic of charisma.
- non-chromosomal — any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs, designated 1 to 22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively.
- noncatastrophic — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
- nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
- north caucasian — a language family including all the Caucasian languages north of the Caucasian divide, as Kabardian and the Circassian language proper, and a few between the divide and the Black Sea, as Abkhazian.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- on the decrease — decreasing
- on the increase — growing, increasing
- orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- orthopsychiatry — an approach to psychiatry concerned with the study and treatment of behavioral disorders, especially of young people.
- overorchestrate — to compose or arrange excessively
- pairs champions — competitors in or winners of a pairs championship
- panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
- passenger coach — a carriage in which passengers sit
- phosphocreatine — a compound, C 4 H 1 0 O 5 N 3 P, found chiefly in muscle, formed by the enzymatic interaction of an organic phosphate and creatine, the breakdown of which provides energy for muscle contraction.
- phosphoric acid — any of three acids, orthophosphoric acid, H 3 PO 4 , metaphosphoric acid, HPO 3 , or pyrophosphoric acid, H 4 P 2 O 7 , derived from phosphorus pentoxide, P 2 O 5 , and various amounts of water.
- physical memory — (memory management) The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
- pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
- pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
- posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
- power macintosh — Power Mac
- process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
- progress chaser — a person employed to make sure at each stage, esp of a manufacturing process, that a piece of work is on schedule and is delivered to the customer on time
- proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium