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14-letter words containing i, n, t, h, r, a

  • chondrichthian — any member of the class Chondrichthyes, comprising the cartilaginous fishes.
  • 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
  • christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
  • christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
  • chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
  • cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
  • 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
  • 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 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.
  • cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
  • darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
  • dechristianize — to make non-Christian
  • desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • diathermaneity — the quality of being diathermanous
  • dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
  • different than — different from
  • dimenhydrinate — a synthetic, crystalline, antihistamine powder, C 17 H 22 NO⋅C 7 H 6 ClN 4 O 2 , used in the treatment of allergic disorders and as a preventive for seasickness and airsickness.
  • dinner theater — a restaurant in which a stage production is performed during or after dinner.
  • dinner theatre — a form of entertainment at which a play is performed while the audience is served dinner
  • disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
  • disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
  • disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
  • distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
  • down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
  • draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
  • dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
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