15-letter words containing n, e, d, h
- carding machine — card2 (defs 1, 2).
- catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
- chandler period — the period of the oscillation (Chandler wobble) of the earth's axis, varying between 416 and 433 days.
- chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
- channel islands — a group of islands in the English Channel, off the NW coast of France, consisting of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Brechou or Brecqhou, Sark, Herm, Jethou, and Lihou (all between them representing the British Kingdom Crown Dependencies of the Bailiwick of Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey) - the only part of the duchy of Normandy remaining to Britain - and the Roches Douvres and the Îles Chausey (which belong to France). Pop: 149 878 (2001). Area: 194 sq km (75 sq miles)
- character dance — a style of balletic folk dance that intends to give a sense of national character and color.
- charles dickens — Charles (John Huf·fam) [huhf-uh m] /ˈhʌf əm/ (Show IPA), ("Boz") 1812–70, English novelist.
- chef de cuisine — chef (def 1).
- chef de mission — the head of a diplomatic body
- chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
- chenopodium oil — a colorless or yellowish oil obtained from the seeds and leaves of Mexican tea, used chiefly in medicine as an agent for killing or expelling intestinal worms.
- chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
- chicken-and-egg — of or relating to a paradoxical situation, question, etc. involving two factors, each of which in turn causes or leads to the other
- chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
- chicken-livered — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
- child endowment — a social security payment for dependent children
- child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
- child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
- child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
- children of god — a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.
- children's home — care institution for minors
- children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
- chinese crested — a small dog of a Chinese breed having long slender legs and a hairless body with hair only on the feet, head, and tail
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
- chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
- chop and change — When people chop and change, they keep changing their minds about what to do or how to act.
- chopped almonds — almonds cut into small pieces
- chorda tendinea — any of the tendons extending from the papillary muscles to the atrioventricular valves and preventing the valves from moving into the atria during ventricular contraction.
- christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
- chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
- chronic disease — long-term illness
- church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
- church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
- cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
- cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
- clearheadedness — The quality of being clearheaded.
- common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
- comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
- connected graph — (mathematics) A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes). Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.
- corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- cradle snatcher — someone who marries or has an affair with a much younger person
- credit-crunched — adversely affected by a credit crunch
- creme de menthe — a liqueur flavoured with peppermint, usually bright green in colour
- crescent-shaped — having the shape of a crescent
- crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- de bruijn graph — (mathematics) A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.