14-letter words containing h, g, e
- characterology — the academic study of character
- charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
- charge carrier — an electron, hole, or ion that transports the electric charge in an electric current
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- charge-a-plate — charge plate.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
- check register — A check register is a record of transactions in a checking account.
- checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
- chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
- chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
- cherry-picking — to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components.
- chest register — the lower register of the voice, in which the lower range of tones is produced
- chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
- chief engineer — the senior engineer on board a ship
- child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
- chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
- chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
- 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.
- chondrogenesis — the growth of cartilage
- chopping knife — a knife for chopping meat, vegetables etc
- choreographers — Plural form of choreographer.
- choreographies — Plural form of choreography.
- choreographing — Present participle of choreograph.
- church integer — (theory) A representation of integers as functions invented by Alonzo Church, inventor of lambda-calculus. The integer N is represented as a higher-order function which applies a given function N times to a given expression. In the pure lambda-calculus there are no constants but numbers can be represented by Church integers. A Haskell function to return a given Church integer could be written: unchurch c = c (+1) 0 See also von Neumann integer.
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
- citrus heights — a city in central California, near Sacramento.
- 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
- climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
- cloister garth — garth (def 1).
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
- coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
- come to nought — If you try to do something but your efforts are not successful, you can say that your efforts come to nought.
- 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.
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cottage cheese — Cottage cheese is a soft, white, lumpy cheese made from sour milk.
- cough medicine — Cough medicine is liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- counterchanged — Exchanged.
- countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.