14-letter words containing k, h
- chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
- chalk and talk — a formal method of teaching, in which the focal points are the blackboard and the teacher's voice, as contrasted with more informal child-centred activities
- champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
- chaparral cock — roadrunner
- chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
- check register — A check register is a record of transactions in a checking account.
- check the helm — to swing back the helm of a vessel to prevent it from turning too quickly or too far
- check-out time — the time by which one has to check out of a hotel
- checkerberries — Plural form of checkerberry.
- checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
- checkered lily — a lily, Fritillaria meleagris, native to Europe, having solitary, checkered, red-purple flowers mottled with greenish yellow.
- cheese skipper — a dipterous fly, Piophila casei, whose larvae feed on cheese and move by jumping: family Piophilidae
- cherry-picking — to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components.
- chesapeake bay — the largest inlet of the Atlantic in the coast of the US: bordered by Maryland and Virginia
- chevra kadisha — a Jewish burial society, usually composed of unpaid volunteers who provide funerals for members of their congregation
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chicken fillet — a fillet cut from a chicken
- chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
- chicken little — a person who spreads baseless or exaggerated reports of danger; alarmist
- chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
- chicken turtle — an edible, freshwater turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, of the southeastern U.S., characterized by a long neck and by the network of fine, yellow lines marking the dark carapace.
- chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- chinook jargon — a pidgin language containing elements of Native American languages, English, and French: formerly used among fur traders and Indians on the NW coast of North America
- chinook salmon — a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, valued as a food fish
- chocolate cake — a cake flavoured with cocoa or chocolate
- chocolate milk — milk flavored with chocolate syrup or powdered chocolate.
- chopping block — a thick wooden board used for chopping vegetables, meat etc on
- chopping knife — a knife for chopping meat, vegetables etc
- christmas cake — A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries.
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- cook the books — to make fraudulent alterations to business or other accounts
- counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
- crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
- croagh patrick — a mountain in NW Republic of Ireland, in Mayo: a place of pilgrimage as Saint Patrick is said to have prayed and fasted there. Height: 765 m (2510 ft)
- cut the cackle — to stop chattering; be quiet
- czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
- dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
- deep hack mode — hack mode
- dimethylketone — acetone.
- dining kitchen — a room where meals are eaten and prepared
- door-key child — latchkey child.
- 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.
- early check-in — An early check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in earlier than the normal time.
- earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
- electric shock — electric current entering the body
- electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
- finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
- fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.