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14-letter words containing s, t, e, n, c, h

  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • christocentric — having as the theological focal point the teachings and practices of Jesus Christ.
  • chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
  • chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
  • code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
  • coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
  • container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
  • context switch — (operating system)   When a multitasking operating system stops running one process and starts running another. Many operating systems implement concurrency by maintaining separate environments or "contexts" for each process. The amount of separation between processes, and the amount of information in a context, depends on the operating system but generally the OS should prevent processes interfering with each other, e.g. by modifying each other's memory. A context switch can be as simple as changing the value of the program counter and stack pointer or it might involve resetting the MMU to make a different set of memory pages available. In order to present the user with an impression of parallism, and to allow processes to respond quickly to external events, many systems will context switch tens or hundreds of times per second.
  • controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
  • convent school — A convent school is a school where many of the teachers are nuns.
  • coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
  • coquettishness — The state or quality of being coquettish.
  • costume change — a change of costume by an actor
  • cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
  • count the cost — If someone counts the cost of something that has happened or will happen, they consider how the consequences of that action or event affect them.
  • counter-thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
  • countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
  • countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
  • counterpunches — Plural form of counterpunch.
  • 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
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • 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.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • 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
  • 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.
  • discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
  • disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
  • disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • east china sea — a part of the N Pacific, bounded by China, Japan, the Ryukyus, and Taiwan. 480,000 sq. mi. (1,243,200 sq. km).
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
  • eastern thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
  • encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
  • enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
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