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18-letter words containing r, h

  • christopher sholes — Christopher Latham [ley-thuh m,, -th uh m] /ˈleɪ θəm,, -ðəm/ (Show IPA), 1819–90, U.S. inventor of the typewriter.
  • chromatic printing — printing from blocks or types inked with various colours
  • chromatic semitone — the pitch difference between one note and its sharpened or flattened equivalent
  • chromolithographer — One engaged in chromolithography.
  • chromolithographic — Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.
  • chronic alcoholism — long-term alcohol addiction
  • chronic bronchitis — persistent respiratory disease
  • chronostratigraphy — The branch of geology concerned with establishing the absolute ages of strata.
  • church of scotland — the established church in Scotland, Calvinist in doctrine and Presbyterian in constitution
  • circular breathing — a technique for sustaining a phrase on a wind instrument, using the cheeks to force air out of the mouth while breathing in through the nose
  • circular dichroism — selective absorption of one of the two possible circular polarizations of light.
  • citizenship papers — the document stating that a naturalized person has been formally declared a citizen
  • claustrophobically — In a claustrophobic way.
  • climbing hydrangea — a woody vine, Hydrangea anomala, of eastern Asia, having shiny, egg-shaped leaves and flat-topped white flower clusters, and climbing by aerial rootlets.
  • clobbering machine — pressure to conform with accepted standards
  • closed scholarship — a scholarship for which only certain people, such as those from a particular school or with a particular surname, are eligible
  • coast rhododendron — a rhododendron, Rhododendron macrophyllum, of western North America, having large clusters of rose-purple flowers spotted with brown: the state flower of Washington.
  • collection charges — the charges levied to cover expenses for the collection of debt
  • colossus of rhodes — a giant bronze statue of Apollo built on Rhodes in about 292–280 bc; destroyed by an earthquake in 225 bc; one of the Seven Wonders of the World
  • colour photography — the art or process of taking and developing photographs in colour
  • combustion chamber — an enclosed space in which combustion takes place, such as the space above the piston in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine or the chambers in a gas turbine or rocket engine in which fuel and oxidant burn
  • come back to earth — to return to reality from a fantasy or daydream
  • come home to roost — If bad or wrong things that someone has done in the past have come home to roost, or if their chickens have come home to roost, they are now experiencing the unpleasant effects of these actions.
  • come the raw prawn — to attempt deception
  • come to grips with — If you come to grips with a problem, you consider it seriously, and start taking action to deal with it.
  • come to terms with — If you come to terms with something difficult or unpleasant, you learn to accept and deal with it.
  • commander in chief — Also, Commander in Chief. the supreme commander of the armed forces of a nation or, sometimes, of several allied nations: The president is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force.
  • commander-in-chief — A commander-in-chief is a senior officer who is in charge of all the forces in a particular area.
  • commercial attache — an attaché in an embassy or legation representing the commercial interests of his or her country.
  • commercial vehicle — a vehicle for carrying goods or (less commonly) passengers
  • comparative method — a body of procedures and criteria used by linguists to determine whether and how two or more languages are related and to reconstruct forms of their hypothetical parent language.
  • comparison shopper — an employee of a retail store hired to visit competing stores in order to gather information regarding styles, quality, prices, etc., of merchandise offered by competitors.
  • comprehensibleness — The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility.
  • computer telephony — Computer Telephone Integration
  • congregate housing — a type of housing in which each individual or family has a private bedroom or living quarters but shares with other residents a common dining room, recreational room, or other facilities.
  • connected subgraph — (mathematics)   A connected graph consisting of a subset of the nodes and edges of some other graph.
  • considered harmful — (programming, humour)   A type of phrase based on the title of Edsger W. Dijkstra's famous note in the March 1968 Communications of the ACM, "Goto Statement Considered Harmful", which fired the first salvo in the structured programming wars. Amusingly, the ACM considered the resulting acrimony sufficiently harmful that it will (by policy) no longer print articles taking so assertive a position against a coding practice. In the ensuing decades, a large number of both serious papers and parodies bore titles of the form "X considered Y". The structured-programming wars eventually blew over with the realisation that both sides were wrong, but use of such titles has remained as a persistent minor in-joke.
  • controllable-pitch — (of a marine or aircraft propeller) having blades whose pitch can be changed during navigation or flight; variable-pitch.
  • conversation chair — an English chair of the 18th century designed to be straddled facing the back of the chair with the elbows resting on the crest rail: an English imitation of the voyeuse.
  • copper naphthenate — a green salt, soluble in benzene, used as an insecticide and a wood preservative, but harmless to plants.
  • cordless telephone — a portable battery-powered telephone with a short-range radio link to a fixed base unit
  • cornucopian thesis — the belief that, as long as science and technology continue to advance, growth can continue for ever because these new advances create new resources
  • coronation chicken — a dish of cold cooked chicken in a mild creamy curry sauce
  • corpus christi bay — a bay in S Texas, at the mouth of the Nueces River.
  • corpuscular theory — the theory, originally proposed by Newton, and revived with the development of the quantum theory, that light consists of a stream of particles
  • cot death syndrome — the unexplained sudden death of an infant during sleep
  • counter-hypothesis — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
  • countertherapeutic — Working against a therapy.
  • court of exchequer — (formerly) an English civil court where Crown revenue cases were tried
  • cranial osteopathy — osteopathy that focuses on the cranium and the spine
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