18-letter words containing i, t, c, h
- christopher sholes — Christopher Latham [ley-thuh m,, -th uh m] /ˈleɪ θəm,, -ðəm/ (Show IPA), 1819–90, U.S. inventor of the typewriter.
- chromatic printing — printing from blocks or types inked with various colours
- chromatic semitone — the pitch difference between one note and its sharpened or flattened equivalent
- chromolithographer — One engaged in chromolithography.
- chromolithographic — Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.
- chronic bronchitis — persistent respiratory disease
- chronostratigraphy — The branch of geology concerned with establishing the absolute ages of strata.
- chukchi-kamchatkan — Chukotian.
- circular breathing — a technique for sustaining a phrase on a wind instrument, using the cheeks to force air out of the mouth while breathing in through the nose
- citizenship papers — the document stating that a naturalized person has been formally declared a citizen
- claustrophobically — In a claustrophobic way.
- clean as a whistle — If you describe something as clean as a whistle, you mean that it is completely clean.
- clinical pathology — the branch of pathology dealing with the study of disease and disease processes by means of chemical, microscopic, and serologic examinations.
- clothing allowance — an amount of money to compensate for the purchase of clothes for work, school, etc
- cognitive ethology — a branch of ethology concerned with the influence of conscious awareness and intention on the behaviour of an animal
- collection charges — the charges levied to cover expenses for the collection of debt
- combustion chamber — an enclosed space in which combustion takes place, such as the space above the piston in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine or the chambers in a gas turbine or rocket engine in which fuel and oxidant burn
- come down the pike — When something comes down the pike, it happens or occurs.
- come into the open — to become evident or public
- come to grips with — If you come to grips with a problem, you consider it seriously, and start taking action to deal with it.
- come to light with — to find or produce
- come to terms with — If you come to terms with something difficult or unpleasant, you learn to accept and deal with it.
- commercial attache — an attaché in an embassy or legation representing the commercial interests of his or her country.
- commodity exchange — an exchange where commodities are traded
- community hospital — (in the US) a local hospital
- comparative method — a body of procedures and criteria used by linguists to determine whether and how two or more languages are related and to reconstruct forms of their hypothetical parent language.
- congregate housing — a type of housing in which each individual or family has a private bedroom or living quarters but shares with other residents a common dining room, recreational room, or other facilities.
- contact inhibition — the cessation of movement, growth, and division in cells that touch each other.
- continental shield — any of the large, low-lying areas in the Earth's crust that are composed of Precambrian crystalline rocks
- continuation sheet — (in a document) a page that continues from the one before it, containing similar information
- controllable-pitch — (of a marine or aircraft propeller) having blades whose pitch can be changed during navigation or flight; variable-pitch.
- conversation chair — an English chair of the 18th century designed to be straddled facing the back of the chair with the elbows resting on the crest rail: an English imitation of the voyeuse.
- cornucopian thesis — the belief that, as long as science and technology continue to advance, growth can continue for ever because these new advances create new resources
- coronation chicken — a dish of cold cooked chicken in a mild creamy curry sauce
- corpus christi bay — a bay in S Texas, at the mouth of the Nueces River.
- counter-hypothesis — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
- countertherapeutic — Working against a therapy.
- cranial osteopathy — osteopathy that focuses on the cranium and the spine
- creatine phosphate — phosphocreatine.
- crystal microphone — a microphone that uses a piezoelectric crystal to convert sound energy into electrical energy
- cyclic pitch lever — a lever in a helicopter to change the angle of attack of individual rotor blades, causing the helicopter to move forwards, backwards, or sideways
- cytoarchitectonics — Cytoarchitecture.
- dechristianization — The act of dechristianizing; the systematic removal of Christianity or Christian elements.
- dendrochronologist — One who carries out dendrochronology.
- depth-first search — (algorithm) A graph search algorithm which extends the current path as far as possible before backtracking to the last choice point and trying the next alternative path. Depth-first search may fail to find a solution if it enters a cycle in the graph. This can be avoided if we never extend a path to a node which it already contains. Opposite of breadth first search. See also iterative deepening.
- destruct mechanism — a mechanism that causes the destruction of a rocket or missile when activated
- diatomaceous earth — an unconsolidated form of diatomite
- dichloracetic acid — a highly corrosive acid. Formula: C2H2Cl2O2
- dielectric heating — the heating of a nonconducting substance caused by dielectric loss when the material is placed in a variable electric field.
- digital switchover — the process of changing the method of transmitting television from analogue to digital format