14-letter words containing l, i, h, s, e
- chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
- chemosterilize — to sterilize (insects or other animals) with a chemosterilant.
- chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
- child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
- children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
- chiltern hills — a range of low chalk hills in SE England extending northwards from the Thames valley. Highest point: 260 m (852 ft)
- chinese leaves — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
- chinese puzzle — an intricate puzzle, esp one consisting of boxes within boxes
- chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
- chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
- cholelithiases — the presence of gallstones.
- cholelithiasis — the occurrence or development of gallstones in the gall bladder
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
- choral society — an organization of amateur singers
- choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
- christmas seal — a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- church visible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth.
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- cloister garth — garth (def 1).
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
- cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
- cyberthrillers — Plural form of cyberthriller.
- 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
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disestablished — Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish.
- disestablishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disestablish.
- displenishment — the act of displenishing
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
- eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen