14-letter words containing h, a, s, t, e
- castle shannon — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
- catachrestical — Catachrestic.
- catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
- catcher's mitt — the glove worn by the catcher to protect the hands
- catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
- cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
- chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
- characterising — Present participle of characterise.
- characteristic — The characteristics of a person or thing are the qualities or features that belong to them and make them recognizable.
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
- charles albert — 1798–1849, king of Sardinia-Piedmont (1831–49) during the Risorgimento: abdicated after the failure of his revolt against Austria
- charles martel — grandfather of Charlemagne. ?688–741 ad, Frankish ruler of Austrasia (715–41), who checked the Muslim invasion of Europe by defeating the Moors at Poitiers (732)
- charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- charter school — an alternative school that is founded on a charter, or contract, between a sponsoring group and a governmental unit and is funded with public money
- chase pointers — (programming) To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
- cheesebox seat — a chair seat, usually of rush, having a rounded form and surrounded with a thin strip of wood.
- chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
- chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
- chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
- chest expander — a device for strengthening the chest muscles, consisting of two handles attached to strong springs or elastic cords that the user pulls apart across the chest
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
- chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
- cholelithiases — the presence of gallstones.
- cholelithiasis — the occurrence or development of gallstones in the gall bladder
- cholesteatomas — Plural form of cholesteatoma.
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
- choral society — an organization of amateur singers
- chrestomathies — Plural form of chrestomathy.
- christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
- christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
- christmas cake — A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries.
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
- christmas rose — an evergreen ranunculaceous plant, Helleborus niger, of S Europe and W Asia, with white or pinkish winter-blooming flowers
- christmas seal — a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.
- christmas time — the period around Christmas
- christmas tree — A Christmas tree is a fir tree, or an artificial tree that looks like a fir tree, which people put in their houses at Christmas and decorate with coloured lights and ornaments.
- christmasberry — toyon.
- chromatophores — Plural form of chromatophore.
- chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- 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