14-letter words containing i, c, h, n, o
- controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- coquettishness — The state or quality of being coquettish.
- corticotrophin — (hormone) adrenocorticotropic hormone.
- cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
- cough medicine — Cough medicine is liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- council school — (esp formerly) any school maintained by the state
- 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.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
- cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
- cytopathogenic — causing cytopathy
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
- diachronically — in a diachronic fashion
- diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- dihydrocodeine — a synthetic drug similar to codeine, used as an analgesic, an antidiarrhoeal, and to relieve coughing, or used recreationally
- discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- dithionic acid — a strong, unstable acid, H 2 S 2 O 6 , known only in solution and in the form of its salts.
- draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- driving school — vehicle operation lessons
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
- echinococcosis — a parasitic disease caused by tapeworms of the genus Echinococcosis
- election night — the evening when the votes from an election are being counted
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethnologically — In an ethnological manner or fashion.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- etiopathogenic — Of or pertaining to etiopathogenesis.
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.