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19-letter words containing i, n, t, h, e

  • chemical castration — the use of drugs to reduce libido
  • chemical weathering — any of the various weathering processes that cause exposed rock to undergo chemical decomposition, changing the chemical and mineralogical composition of the rock: Oxygen and acids are agents in chemical weathering.
  • cherenkov radiation — the electromagnetic radiation produced when a charged particle moves through a medium at a greater velocity than the velocity of light in that medium
  • chicken-fried steak — a cheap cut of beefsteak that is fried in batter
  • chinese finger trap — a child's toy, consisting of a small cylinder of woven straw or paper into which the forefingers are placed, one in each end: the harder one pulls, the more securely the fingers are held.
  • chinese tallow tree — tallow tree.
  • chrestien de troyes — c1140–c90, French poet.
  • christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
  • christian scientist — a believer in Christian Science; a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
  • christmas pantomime — pantomime (def 5).
  • cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
  • city of seven hills — Rome2
  • columnar epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of elongated cells of cylindrical or prismatic shape.
  • combination therapy — a therapy that combines two or more drugs, or two or more treatments
  • come into the world — to be born
  • come to think of it — You use the expression come to think of it to indicate that you have suddenly realized something, often something obvious.
  • commission merchant — a person who buys or sells goods for others on a commission basis
  • confectioner's shop — a sweet shop
  • confession of faith — a formal public avowal of religious beliefs
  • congestion charging — the practice of charging motorists for the right to drive on busy roads, esp at busy times
  • consolidated school — a public school attended by pupils from several adjoining, esp. rural, districts
  • contradistinguished — Simple past tense and past participle of contradistinguish.
  • contradistinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contradistinguish.
  • convergent thinking — analytical, usually deductive, thinking in which ideas are examined for their logical validity or in which a set of rules is followed, e.g. in arithmetic
  • corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
  • counterpoint-rhythm — Music. the art of combining melodies.
  • credit someone with — to believe that someone has or is responsible for; ascribe to someone
  • crinoline stretcher — (on a Windsor chair) a stretcher having an inwardly curved piece connecting the front legs, and connected to the back legs by short, straight pieces.
  • daisy-wheel printer — a type of printer that uses a daisywheel
  • data driven machine — (language)   (DDM) A dataflow language.
  • deathbed confession — a confession that somebody makes just before he or she dies, usually relating to some long concealed crime or secret
  • department chairman — the chairman of a university department
  • dielectric strength — the maximum voltage that can be applied to a given material without causing it to break down, usually expressed in volts or kilovolts per unit of thickness.
  • diethylaminoethanol — a colorless, hygroscopic, water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 15 NO, used for the synthesis of local anesthetics, in antirust compounds, and in photographic emulsions.
  • dihydrostreptomycin — an antibiotic, C 21 H 41 N 7 O 12 , derived by organic synthesis from and believed to be less toxic than streptomycin: used in the form of its sulfate chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • dihydrotestosterone — (steroid) An androgenic metabolite of testosterone; used to treat certain breast cancers.
  • dimethylnitrosamine — a yellow, water-soluble carcinogenic liquid, C 2 H 6 N 2 O, found in tobacco smoke and certain foods: known to be a potent carcinogen. Abbreviation: DMN, DMNA.
  • diminishing returns — any rate of profit, production, benefits, etc., that beyond a certain point fails to increase proportionately with added investment, effort, or skill.
  • direct grant school — (in Britain, formerly) a school financed by endowment, fees, and a state grant conditional upon admittance of a percentage of nonpaying pupils nominated by the local education authority
  • disenfranchisements — Plural form of disenfranchisement.
  • dispatch department — the department of an organization responsible for the dispatch of orders
  • distinguishableness — The state or quality of being distinguishable.
  • diversional therapy — the structured use of leisure time in recreation and play as a form of or supplement to conventional therapy
  • do the decent thing — If you say that someone should do the decent thing, you mean that they should do something which they do not really want to do, but which you think they ought to do.
  • domain architecture — (systems analysis)   A generic, organisational structure or design for software systems in a domain. The domain architecture contains the designs that are intended to satisfy requirements specified in the domain model. A domain architecture can be adapted to create designs for software systems within a domain and also provides a framework for configuring assets within individual software systems.
  • dominant wavelength — the wavelength of monochromatic light that would give the same visual sensation if combined in a suitable proportion with an achromatic light
  • draw the color line — to impose or accept the color line
  • draw the curtain on — to end
  • drink the health of — to salute or celebrate with a toast
  • duplicating machine — a duplicator, especially one for making identical copies of documents, letters, etc.
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