14-letter words containing h, r, d, i
- catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
- cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
- 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
- chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
- chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- 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.
- 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
- chondrophorine — relating to chondrophores
- chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
- christmas card — Christmas cards are cards with greetings, which people send to their friends and family at Christmas.
- chromodynamics — a theory that describes how gluons and their forces bind quarks together to form protons, neutrons, etc.
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- crepe de chine — a very thin crepe of silk or a similar light fabric
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
- cryptorchidism — a congenital condition in which one or both testicles fail to descend into the scrotum
- cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
- cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- data hierarchy — The system of data objects which provide the methods for information storage and retrieval. Broadly, a data hierarchy may be considered to be either natural, which arises from the alphabet or syntax of the language in which the information is expressed, or machine, which reflects the facilities of the computer, both hardware and software. A natural data hierarchy might consist of bits, characters, words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. One might use components bound to an application, such as field, record, and file, and these would ordinarily be further specified by having data descriptors such as name field, address field, etc. On the other hand, a machine or software system might use bit, byte, word, block, partition, channel, and port. Programming languages often provide types or objects which can create data hierarchies of arbitrary complexity, thus allowing software system designers to model language structures described by the linguist to greater or lesser degree. The distinction between the natural form of data and the facilities provided by the machine may be obscure, because users force their needs into the molds provided, and programmers change machine designs. As an example, the natural data type "character" and the machine type "byte" are often used interchangeably, because the latter has evolved to meet the need of representing the former.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance