14-letter words containing t, s, h, i
- composite-shot — Also called composite shot. Movies, Television. a type of process photography in which two or more shots are juxtaposed and projected simultaneously on the screen.
- coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
- consultantship — the office or function of a consultant
- 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.
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- coquettishness — The state or quality of being coquettish.
- corpus christi — a festival in honour of the Eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday
- cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
- cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
- cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
- 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
- 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-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
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cryptaesthetic — of or relating to cryptaesthesia
- 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
- 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-off switch — a switch that cuts off the supply of electricity
- 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
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- 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
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- 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.
- 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.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- dio chrysostom — 2nd century ad, Greek orator and philosopher
- discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.