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13-letter words containing h, p, c

  • cherry-picker — a moveable boom, having a bucketlike attachment at its top that is large enough to carry a worker: used for repairing telephone lines, pruning trees, etc.
  • chew-'n'-spew — any fast-food restaurant considered to be serving poor quality food
  • chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • child prodigy — A child prodigy is a child with a very great talent.
  • child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
  • chilkoot pass — a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range
  • chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
  • chimney piece — mantelpiece
  • chimney place — an open hearth.
  • chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
  • chimneypieces — Plural form of chimneypiece.
  • chip graffiti — microchip art
  • chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
  • chiropractics — The practice of a chiropractor.
  • chiropractors — Plural form of chiropractor.
  • chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
  • chlorophyll-b — the green coloring matter of leaves and plants, essential to the production of carbohydrates by photosynthesis, and occurring in a bluish-black form, C 55 H 72 MgN 4 O 5 (chlorophyll a) and a dark-green form, C 55 H 70 MgN 4 O 6 (chlorophyll b)
  • chloroplastal — of or like a chloroplast
  • chloroplastic — a plastid containing chlorophyll.
  • chopped liver — cooked liver chopped with onions and hard-boiled eggs and seasoned.
  • chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
  • choreographed — You describe an activity involving several people as choreographed when it is arranged but is intended to appear natural.
  • choreographer — A choreographer is someone who invents the movements for a ballet or other dance and tells the dancers how to perform them.
  • choreographic — Choreographic means relating to or connected with choreography.
  • chorepiscopal — (in early Christianity) relating to or connected with a local bishop
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • chosen people — any of various peoples believing themselves to be chosen by God, esp the Jews
  • chromatograph — a piece of equipment that provides the outcome of a chromatographic test
  • chromatophile — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
  • chromatophore — a cell in the skin of frogs, chameleons, etc, in which pigment is concentrated or dispersed, causing the animal to change colour
  • chromoprotein — any of a group of conjugated proteins, such as haemoglobin, in which the protein is joined to a coloured compound, such as a metal-containing porphyrin
  • chromospheres — Plural form of chromosphere.
  • chromospheric — Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
  • chromotherapy — the use of colour and light as a restorative therapy and to promote mental and physical well-being
  • chronographic — a timepiece fitted with a recording device, as a stylus and rotating drum, used to mark the exact instant of an occurrence, especially in astronomy.
  • chronotherapy — an endeavour to readjust the body clock to enable a person to waken earlier by going to sleep later and later every day until the required waking hour is achieved
  • chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
  • chrysophenine — a bright yellow dye derived from stilbene, used chiefly for dyeing leather and textiles.
  • chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
  • chrysotherapy — gold therapy.
  • chthonophagia — (disease) A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.
  • church parade — a parade by servicemen or members of a uniformed organization for the purposes of attending religious services
  • churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
  • churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
  • chylophyllous — having fleshy leaves, as certain desert plants.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • climatography — an account of a region's climate
  • clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
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