14-letter words containing s, h, t
- courtesy coach — a free coach
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cryptaesthetic — of or relating to cryptaesthesia
- cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
- cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- cryptorchidism — a congenital condition in which one or both testicles fail to descend into the scrotum
- crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
- cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
- curiosity shop — a shop selling unusual items and curios
- 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.
- cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
- cut sheet feed — the automatic movement of single sheets of paper through the platen of the printer
- cut-off switch — a switch that cuts off the supply of electricity
- cyberthrillers — Plural form of cyberthriller.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- 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
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
- death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
- death sentence — A death sentence is a punishment of death given by a judge to someone who has been found guilty of a serious crime such as murder.
- deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- decorated shed — a contemporary design concept characterized by buildings generally of purely utilitarian design but with fronts intended to give them more grandeur or to announce their functions.
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
- dennis ritchie — (person) Dennis M. Ritchie, co-author of the Unix operating system, inventor of the C programming language and demigod. See also K&R, Core War, If you want X, you know where to find it.
- depth of focus — the amount by which the distance between the camera lens and the film can be altered without the resulting image appearing blurred
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
- desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
- dessert cherry — the fruit of a cherry tree
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization