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14-letter words containing h, a, n, g

  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • chicago window — a composite window, horizontal in character, consisting of a large, fixed sheet of glass between two vertical windows with sash for ventilation, first popularized in commercial buildings in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s.
  • child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
  • chinook jargon — a pidgin language containing elements of Native American languages, English, and French: formerly used among fur traders and Indians on the NW coast of North America
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • choreographing — Present participle of choreograph.
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
  • cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
  • 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
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
  • costume change — a change of costume by an actor
  • counterchanged — Exchanged.
  • countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
  • countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
  • 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
  • courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
  • crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
  • cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
  • cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
  • cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
  • cytopathogenic — causing cytopathy
  • darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
  • dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
  • dental hygiene — the maintenance of the teeth and gums in healthy condition, esp by proper brushing, the removal of plaque, etc
  • diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
  • dihedral angle — the angle between two planes in a dihedron.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
  • disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
  • distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
  • divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
  • dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
  • dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
  • dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
  • drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
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