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15-letter words containing o, h, e, n

  • borough-english — (until 1925) a custom in certain English boroughs whereby the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers
  • boustrophedonic — of or relating to lines written in opposite directions
  • box chronometer — a ship's chronometer, supported on gimbals in a wooden box
  • brachistochrone — the curve between two points through which a body moves under the force of gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve; the path of quickest descent
  • branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
  • bread and honey — money
  • breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
  • bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
  • bristol channel — an inlet of the Atlantic, between S Wales and SW England, merging into the Severn estuary. Length: about 137 km (85 miles)
  • brompheniramine — a substance, C 16 H 19 BrN 2 , used as an antihistamine in the management of various allergies, as hay fever.
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • brother-in-arms — a fellow soldier or comrade in a shared struggle
  • bullnose header — bull header (def 1).
  • bullnose-header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • bun in the oven — in the womb
  • business school — A business school is a school or college which teaches business subjects such as economics and management.
  • cache coherency — (storage)   (Or "cache consistency") /kash koh-heer'n-see/ The synchronisation of data in multiple caches such that reading a memory location via any cache will return the most recent data written to that location via any (other) cache. Some parallel processors do not cache accesses to shared memory to avoid the issue of cache coherency. If caches are used with shared memory then some system is required to detect when data in one processor's cache should be discarded or replaced because another processor has updated that memory location. Several such schemes have been devised.
  • caernarvonshire — (until 1974) a county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd
  • cannot help but — to be unable to do anything else except
  • cape horn fever — illness feigned by malingerers.
  • catch (on) fire — to begin burning; ignite
  • catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
  • catheterisation — Alternative spelling of catheterization.
  • catheterization — to introduce a catheter into.
  • chairpersonship — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
  • chamber concert — a concert of chamber music
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • 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
  • change of heart — a profound change of outlook, opinion, etc
  • change of venue — the removal of a trial out of one jurisdiction into another
  • channel hopping — (chat)   To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board. This term may derive from the TV idiom, "channel surfing".
  • channel-hopping — Channel-hopping means switching quickly between different television channels because you are looking for something interesting to watch.
  • charcoal burner — (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning
  • charcoal-burner — a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
  • charles simonyi — (person)   Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond.
  • charleston peak — a mountain in SE Nevada: highest peak in the Spring Mountains. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chef de mission — the head of a diplomatic body
  • chemoattractant — a chemical substance that provokes chemotaxis, esp one that causes a bacterium to move in the direction in which its concentration is increasing
  • chemoprevention — the prevention of disease, esp cancer, by means of chemical agents
  • chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
  • chemotaxonomist — a specialist in the field of chemotaxonomy
  • 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.
  • chest infection — a respiratory infection mainly affecting the chest
  • chestnut bottle — an American glass bottle or flask of the 19th century, having slightly flattened sides.
  • chewing tobacco — tobacco, in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing rather than smoking.
  • chicken cholera — fowl cholera.
  • chicken colonel — an officer with the rank of full colonel
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