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14-letter words containing h, i, d

  • brachydactylic — having abnormally short fingers or toes
  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
  • brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
  • braddock hills — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
  • branched chain — an open chain of atoms with one or more side chains attached to it
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • british dollar — any of several coins formerly issued by the British Empire for use in certain territories, as the Straits dollar or the Hong Kong dollar.
  • broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • cahokia mounds — the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis
  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • camphoric acid — a whitish crystallizable substance derived from the oxidization of camphor, used in solution in medicine as an antiseptic. Formula: C10H16O4
  • canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
  • cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
  • cardiothoracic — of or relating to the heart and the chest
  • cash dispenser — A cash dispenser is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account using a special card.
  • cashier's desk — A cashier's desk is the same as a cash desk.
  • casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
  • casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
  • cephalic index — the ratio of the greatest width of the human head to its greatest length, multiplied by 100
  • cercopithecoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the primate superfamily Cercopithecoidea (Old World monkeys)
  • chaparral bird — roadrunner.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
  • charmed circle — If you refer to a group of people as a charmed circle, you mean that they seem to have special power or influence, and do not allow anyone else to join their group.
  • checkered lily — a lily, Fritillaria meleagris, native to Europe, having solitary, checkered, red-purple flowers mottled with greenish yellow.
  • chevra kadisha — a Jewish burial society, usually composed of unpaid volunteers who provide funerals for members of their congregation
  • 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.
  • chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
  • chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
  • child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
  • child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
  • childbed fever — puerperal fever.
  • children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
  • chiller-diller — chiller (def 2).
  • china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
  • china wood oil — tung oil
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chloride paper — a relatively slow printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride: used mostly for contact prints.
  • chlorothiazide — a diuretic drug administered orally in the treatment of chronic heart and kidney disease and hypertension. Formula: C7H6ClN3O4S2
  • chlorpropamide — a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C10H13ClN2O3S
  • chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
  • chondrichthian — any member of the class Chondrichthyes, comprising the cartilaginous fishes.
  • chondrocranium — the cartilaginous structure that, in early development, envelops the brain
  • chondrogenesis — the growth of cartilage
  • chondromalacia — degeneration of cartilage in the knee, usually caused by excessive wear between the patella and lower end of the femur.
  • chondromatosis — a painful and immobilizing condition that affects the joints, in particular the elbow, hip, and knee joints, and results in the synovial tissue becoming cartilaginous
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