14-letter words containing t, h, i, r, e, n
- charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
- 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.
- chemical toner — toner (def 4).
- chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
- chemoreception — the response of a chemoreceptor to chemical stimuli
- chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chicken turtle — an edible, freshwater turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, of the southeastern U.S., characterized by a long neck and by the network of fine, yellow lines marking the dark carapace.
- chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- chiltern hills — a range of low chalk hills in SE England extending northwards from the Thames valley. Highest point: 260 m (852 ft)
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
- 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
- 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 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.
- chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
- church integer — (theory) A representation of integers as functions invented by Alonzo Church, inventor of lambda-calculus. The integer N is represented as a higher-order function which applies a given function N times to a given expression. In the pure lambda-calculus there are no constants but numbers can be represented by Church integers. A Haskell function to return a given Church integer could be written: unchurch c = c (+1) 0 See also von Neumann integer.
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
- 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.
- controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- 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
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- cremnitz white — lead white.
- crime fighting — the series of measures and actions taken by the forces of the law to combat crime
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- 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.
- cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- dehydroretinol — (organic compound) A derivative of retinol having an extra double bond; vitamin A2.
- 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.
- 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.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- diathermaneity — the quality of being diathermanous
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- diethylpropion — a sympathomimetic substance, C 13 H 19 NO⋅HCl, used as an appetite suppressor and a short-term adjunct in the management of certain kinds of obesity.
- different than — different from