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14-letter words containing h, a, l, e

  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
  • climb the wall — If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • cochlear nerve — the branch of the auditory nerve that connects with the cochlea and transmits impulses to the hearing center of the brain
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
  • come to a halt — stop suddenly
  • complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
  • comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
  • conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
  • coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
  • coquilhatville — former name of Mbandaka.
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
  • cut the cackle — to stop chattering; be quiet
  • 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
  • dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
  • dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
  • dehabilitation — (sociology) The process of social estrangement and progressive loosening of social bonds between an individual and his family and society as a result of long-term residence in an institution.
  • delayed speech — a speech disorder of children in which the levels of intelligibility, vocabulary, complexity of utterance, etc., are significantly below the levels considered standard for a particular age.
  • delphic oracle — the oracle of Apollo at Delphi that gave answers held by the ancient Greeks to be of great authority but also noted for their ambiguity
  • dental hygiene — the maintenance of the teeth and gums in healthy condition, esp by proper brushing, the removal of plaque, etc
  • deparochialize — to make parochial.
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • diaheliotropic — exhibiting diaheliotropism
  • dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
  • diffie-hellman — (cryptography)   A public-key encryption key exchange algorithm.
  • dihedral angle — the angle between two planes in a dihedron.
  • dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disestablished — Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish.
  • disestablishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disestablish.
  • divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
  • dolichocephaly — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
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