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17-letter words containing r, a, c, h, i, l

  • chicklet keyboard — (spelling)   It's spelled "chiclet keyboard".
  • child pornography — pornography using a child or children as the subject.
  • china grass cloth — grass cloth.
  • chinagraph pencil — a coloured pencil used for writing on china, glass, etc
  • chloroacetic acid — a colourless crystalline soluble strong acid prepared by chlorinating acetic acid and used as an intermediate in the manufacture of many chemicals; monochloracetic acid. Formula: CH2ClCOOH
  • chlortetracycline — an antibiotic used in treating many bacterial and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces aureofaciens. Formula: C22H23ClN2O8
  • chocolate soldier — a person who mistakenly believes that he or she is very powerful, important, or impressive
  • choreographically — As if choreographed.
  • chromolithographs — Plural form of chromolithograph.
  • chromolithography — the process of making coloured prints by lithography
  • chronographically — a timepiece fitted with a recording device, as a stylus and rotating drum, used to mark the exact instant of an occurrence, especially in astronomy.
  • chronological age — the number of years a person has lived, especially when used as a standard against which to measure behavior, intelligence, etc.
  • cigarette lighter — A cigarette lighter is a device which produces a small flame when you press a switch and which you use to light a cigarette or cigar.
  • circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
  • civil partnership — A civil partnership is a legal relationship between two people of the same sex that is similar to marriage.
  • close parenthesis — right parenthesis
  • coin of the realm — legal tender.
  • collegiate church — a church that has an endowed chapter of canons and prebendaries attached to it but that is not a cathedral
  • committal hearing — (in British law) a preliminary inquiry by a magistrate to decide if there is enough evidence for a case to go to trial
  • courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
  • critical thinking — disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence: The questions are intended to develop your critical thinking.
  • cromwellian chair — an upright oaken chair, often with arms, having all pieces turned and a seat and back panel of leather or cloth attached with brass-headed nails.
  • cryptographically — In a cryptographic manner; using cryptography; for cryptographic purposes.
  • cyanogen chloride — a colorless, volatile, poisonous liquid, CNCl, used chiefly in the synthesis of compounds containing the cyano group.
  • cyrillic alphabet — the alphabet derived from that of the Greeks, supposedly by Saint Cyril, for the writing of Slavonic languages: now used primarily for Russian, Bulgarian, and the Serbian dialect of Serbo-Croat
  • cytotrophoblastic — Relating to, or containing, cytotrophoblasts.
  • dehydrochlorinase — an enzyme that catalyzes the removal of hydrogen and chlorine atoms or ions from chlorinated hydrocarbons.
  • dehydrochlorinate — to remove hydrogen chloride or chlorine and hydrogen from (a substance).
  • dialect geography — linguistic geography
  • diaphragmatically — By use of the diaphragm; in a diaphragmatic way.
  • ehelp corporation — (company)   A vendor of Microsoft Windows application development tools such as RoboHELP and RoboDemo. EHelp were formerly (around 1997) Blue Sky Software. Address: 7777 Fay Avenue, Suite 201, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Telephone: +1-800-793-0364, +1 (619) 459 6365. Fax: +1 (619) 459 6366.
  • electroanesthesia — Anesthesia induced by cranial electrotherapy stimulation.
  • electrochemically — In an electrochemical manner.
  • electromechanical — Of, relating to, or denoting a mechanical device that is electrically operated.
  • electromyographic — Using electromyography.
  • exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
  • farthingale chair — an English chair of c1600 having no arms, a straight and low back, and a high seat.
  • first call on sth — If you have first call on something, you will be asked before anyone else whether you want to buy or use it.
  • french provincial — noting, pertaining to, or resembling a style of furnishings and decoration originating in the provinces of France in the 18th century, derived from but less ornate than styles then current in Paris and featuring simply carved wood furniture, often with decorative curved moldings.
  • french somaliland — a former name of Djibouti (def 1).
  • general discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has served honorably but who has not met all the conditions of an honorable discharge.
  • genetic algorithm — (GA) An evolutionary algorithm which generates each individual from some encoded form known as a "chromosome" or "genome". Chromosomes are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. "Crossover", the kind of recombination of chromosomes found in sexual reproduction in nature, is often also used in GAs. Here, an offspring's chromosome is created by joining segments choosen alternately from each of two parents' chromosomes which are of fixed length. GAs are useful for multidimensional optimisation problems in which the chromosome can encode the values for the different variables being optimised.
  • geographical mile — nautical mile.
  • gestatorial chair — a ceremonial chair on which the pope is carried
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • good-time charlie — an affable, sociable, pleasure-loving man.
  • graphic equalizer — an equalizer in an audio system that is controlled by sliders that show graphically and correct the frequency response within the preset frequency range.
  • greenwich village — a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan: inhabited and frequented by artists, writers, and students.
  • haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
  • hairline fracture — a very fine crack in a bone
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