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13-letter words containing o, h

  • changing room — A changing room is a room where you can change your clothes and usually have a shower, for example at a sports centre.
  • changing tone — cambiata.
  • changing-note — cambiata.
  • chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
  • chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
  • charcoal grey — a very dark grey colour
  • charing cross — a district of London, in the city of Westminster: the modern cross (1863) in front of Charing Cross railway station replaces the one erected by Edward I (1290), the last of twelve marking the route of the funeral procession of his queen, Eleanor
  • charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
  • charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
  • charley horse — People sometimes refer to a cramp in the muscles of their leg or arm as a charley horse.
  • charlier shoe — special light horseshoe
  • charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
  • charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
  • chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
  • chase mortise — a mortise having one inclined narrow side.
  • chattahoochee — river flowing from N Ga. southward along the Ga.-Ala. border into the Apalachicola: 436 mi (702 km)
  • chattel house — (esp in Barbados) a movable wooden dwelling, usually set on a foundation of loose stones on rented land
  • checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • checkout line — A checkout line is a line of customers waiting to pay at a checkout counter.
  • checkpointing — Present participle of checkpoint.
  • cheddar gorge — a pass through the Mendip Hills renowned for its stalactitic caverns and rare limestone flora
  • cheek by jowl — If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other.
  • cheesemongers — Plural form of cheesemonger.
  • chef-d'oeuvre — a masterpiece
  • cheiloschisis — Cleft lip.
  • cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
  • chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • chemoreceptor — a sensory receptor in a biological cell membrane to which an external molecule binds to generate a smell or taste sensation
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • chemotaxonomy — the taxonomy of species of organisms based on biochemical characteristics
  • cherokee rose — an evergreen climbing Chinese rose, Rosa laevigata, that now grows wild in the southern US, having large white fragrant flowers
  • cherry tomato — a miniature tomato not much bigger than a cherry
  • chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
  • cheviot hills — a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland, mainly in Northumberland
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chiaochou bay — an inlet of the Yellow Sea, in E China, in Shandong province. 20 miles (32 km) long; 15 miles (24 km) wide.
  • chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
  • chicago ridge — a town in NE Illinois.
  • chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
  • chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
  • chicken louse — a louse, Menopon pallidum (or gallinae); a parasite of poultry: order Mallophaga (bird lice)
  • chief-officer — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
  • child custody — custody (def 4).
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • child prodigy — A child prodigy is a child with a very great talent.
  • child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
  • child version — (system management)   In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
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