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14-letter words containing s, h, i, t, e, a

  • brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
  • bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
  • c with classes — Short-lived predecessor to C++.
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
  • cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
  • cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
  • catachrestical — Catachrestic.
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • catcher's mitt — the glove worn by the catcher to protect the hands
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • characteristic — The characteristics of a person or thing are the qualities or features that belong to them and make them recognizable.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • chase pointers — (programming)   To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
  • chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
  • chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
  • cholelithiases — the presence of gallstones.
  • cholelithiasis — the occurrence or development of gallstones in the gall bladder
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
  • choral society — an organization of amateur singers
  • chrestomathies — Plural form of chrestomathy.
  • christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
  • christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
  • christmas cake — A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries.
  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • christmas rose — an evergreen ranunculaceous plant, Helleborus niger, of S Europe and W Asia, with white or pinkish winter-blooming flowers
  • christmas seal — a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.
  • christmas time — the period around Christmas
  • christmas tree — A Christmas tree is a fir tree, or an artificial tree that looks like a fir tree, which people put in their houses at Christmas and decorate with coloured lights and ornaments.
  • christmasberry — toyon.
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • cryptaesthetic — of or relating to cryptaesthesia
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
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