14-letter words containing e, c, h, i
- turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.
- turn the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
- tymshare, inc. — (company) The US company that created the TYMNET network.
- un-challenging — offering a challenge; testing one's ability, endurance, etc: a challenging course; a challenging game.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unauthenticity — the quality of lacking authenticity or not being genuine
- unchangingness — the quality or state of not changing
- unchristianize — to make unchristian; to render no longer Christian; to remove Christian status or nature from
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- unenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
- unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
- unicorn chaser — originally a picture of a unicorn posted on a blog site shortly after an offensive or disturbing picture has been posted, as a kind of antidote to the previous post. Now used of a comforting or innocent image, video clip, or topic viewed or contemplated following a previous, disturbing image, video, etc.
- unit character — a characteristic, usually controlled by a single gene, that is transmitted as a unit in heredity.
- unmathematical — not characterized by or using the precision of mathematics; inexact; imprecise
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unsophisticate — not sophisticated
- unsynchronized — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- vector graphic — a computer image that is stored in memory as lines rather than a series of dots, allowing it to be rotated or proportionally scaled.
- victor charlie — a Vietcong or the Vietcong; the VC.
- village school — a school in a village
- vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
- virginia beach — a town in SE Virginia.
- visible speech — the representation in graphic or pictorial form of characteristics of speech, as by means of sound spectrograms.
- voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
- wang ching-wei — 1883–1944, Chinese political leader.
- wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
- water hyacinth — a floating aquatic plant, Eichornia crassipes, of tropical lakes and rivers, that grows so prolifically it often hinders the passage of boats.
- wave mechanics — a form of quantum mechanics formulated in terms of a wave equation, as the Schrödinger equation.
- weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
- weight watcher — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
- weight-watcher — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
- weightwatchers — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
- whale watching — the activity of observing whales in their natural surroundings
- wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
- whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
- white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
- white-knuckled — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
- winnipeg couch — a couch with no arms or back, opening out into a double bed
- winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
- witches'-besom — witches'-broom.
- witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
- witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.