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16-letter words containing r, h, g

  • cape cod lighter — a device for lighting a fire, as in a fireplace, consisting of a lump of nonflammable material on a metal rod, that is soaked in kerosene or the like and lighted with a match.
  • caregiver speech — baby talk (def 2).
  • carpenter gothic — (sometimes initial capital letters) a style of Victorian Gothic architecture adapted to the resources of contemporary woodworking tools and machinery.
  • cartographically — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
  • channel crossing — a crossing of the English Channel
  • character string — a series of characters that can be manipulated as a group, but do not necessarily represent anything
  • charge to a room — If you charge an item or expense to a room at a hotel, you add it to a guest's final bill so they can pay for it when they check out of the room.
  • chargeable asset — any asset that can give rise to assessment for capital gains tax on its disposal. Exempt assets include principal private residences, cars, investments held in a personal equity plan, and government securities
  • charged particle — an atomic particle with a positive or negative charge, as an electron, proton, or helium ion
  • charles coughlin — Charles Edward ("Father Coughlin") 1891–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic priest, activist, radio broadcaster, and editor, born in Canada.
  • chase the dragon — to smoke opium or heroin
  • chattel mortgage — a mortgage on movable personal property
  • chattering class — well-educated members of the upper-middle or upper class who freely express especially liberal opinions or judgments on current issues and events.
  • chipping sparrow — a common North American sparrow, Spizella passerina, having brown-and-grey plumage and a white eye stripe
  • chlorogenic acid — a colorless crystalline acid, C 16 H 18 O 9 , that is important in plant metabolism and is purportedly responsible for the browning or blackening of cut apples, potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables.
  • cholangiographic — Relating to cholangiography.
  • cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
  • choriomeningitis — (medicine) A form of cerebral meningitis associated with inflammation of the choroid plexus.
  • christening robe — a long white dress worn by a baby at his or her christening
  • christmas lights — strings of lights put up in the Christmas period to decorate houses
  • chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
  • chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
  • chromolithograph — a picture produced by chromolithography
  • chronic glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
  • church suffering — the souls in purgatory.
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
  • clearsightedness — The property of being clearsighted.
  • common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • consulting hours — the hours during which health practitioners are available for consultation
  • copyright symbol — (character, legal)   "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
  • corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
  • counter-checking — a check that opposes or restrains.
  • counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
  • creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
  • d-glyceraldehyde — an isomer of glyceraldehyde in which the OH group is on the right side of the asymmetric carbon atom.
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
  • dendrochronology — the study of the annual rings of trees, used esp to date past events
  • digital research — (company)   The company which developed CP/M, the operating system used on many of the first generation 8-bit microprocessor-based personal computers. Digital Research also produced DR-DOS. Address: Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
  • discharging arch — an arch for taking some of the weight from a structural member beneath it.
  • discographically — In terms of discography.
  • disenfranchising — Present participle of disenfranchise.
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