14-letter words containing s, h, i, l
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- church visible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth.
- civil rightist — a person who actively supports or works for safeguarding or obtaining civil rights.
- class 5 switch — (communications) The lowest designation used in AT&T's hierarchical General Toll Switching Plan, developed in 1929.
- claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- cloister garth — garth (def 1).
- coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- consultantship — the office or function of a consultant
- controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
- cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
- cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
- council school — (esp formerly) any school maintained by the state
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
- cyberthrillers — Plural form of cyberthriller.
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
- cystolithiasis — a medical condition caused by the formation of a calculus in the bladder
- czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disestablished — Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish.
- disestablishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disestablish.
- disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
- displenishment — the act of displenishing
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- driving school — vehicle operation lessons
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
- eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen