14-letter words containing h, o, t, e
- charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- charter colony — a colony, such as Virginia or Massachusetts, created by royal charter under the control of an individual, trading company, etc, and exempt from interference by the Crown
- 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.
- check-out time — the time by which one has to check out of a hotel
- cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
- cheesebox seat — a chair seat, usually of rush, having a rounded form and surrounded with a thin strip of wood.
- chemical toner — toner (def 4).
- chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
- chemoautotroph — an organism that obtains energy through chemoautotrophy
- chemoreception — the response of a chemoreceptor to chemical stimuli
- chemoreceptive — responsive to chemical stimuli
- chemoreceptors — Plural form of chemoreceptor.
- chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
- chemosterilize — to sterilize (insects or other animals) with a chemosterilant.
- chemosynthesis — the formation of organic material by certain bacteria using energy derived from simple chemical reactions
- chemosynthetic — That utilizes chemosynthesis.
- chemotaxonomic — of or relating to chemotaxonomy
- chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
- chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
- cheque account — an account at a bank or a building society upon which cheques can be drawn
- chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
- chest-on-chest — a chest of drawers fitted onto another, somewhat larger one
- 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.
- child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
- chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
- chlorochromate — (inorganic chemistry) The univalent anion CrClO3-, or any salt containing this anion.
- chloroethylene — vinyl chloride.
- chlorothiazide — a diuretic drug administered orally in the treatment of chronic heart and kidney disease and hypertension. Formula: C7H6ClN3O4S2
- chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
- chocolate cake — a cake flavoured with cocoa or chocolate
- chocolate drop — a small disc of chocolate
- chocolate milk — milk flavored with chocolate syrup or powdered chocolate.
- chocolate tree — cacao (def 1).
- choctawhatchee — a river in SE Alabama and NW Florida, flowing S to Choctawhatchee Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. 174 miles (280 km) long.
- choir practice — a choir's regular meeting for practice
- 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.
- cholecystotomy — the surgical procedure of cutting into the gall bladder in order to extract gallstones
- choledochotomy — incision of the common bile duct.
- 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
- cholinomimetic — mimicking the action of choline, especially acetylcholine.
- choral society — an organization of amateur singers
- chrestomathies — Plural form of chrestomathy.
- christmas rose — an evergreen ranunculaceous plant, Helleborus niger, of S Europe and W Asia, with white or pinkish winter-blooming flowers