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14-letter words containing ch

  • wainscot chair — an armchair of the 17th century, made of oak and having a solid paneled back.
  • walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • wang ching-wei — 1883–1944, Chinese political leader.
  • wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
  • warm the bench — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
  • watch and ward — a continuous watch or vigil, by or as by night and by day, especially for the purpose of guarding.
  • water chestnut — any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, especially T. natans, of the Old World.
  • wave mechanics — a form of quantum mechanics formulated in terms of a wave equation, as the Schrödinger equation.
  • weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
  • weight watcher — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • weight-watcher — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • weightwatchers — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • well-scheduled — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
  • weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
  • western church — the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes with the Anglican Church, or, more broadly, the Christian churches of the West.
  • whachamacallit — an object or person whose name one does not know or cannot recall.
  • whale watching — the activity of observing whales in their natural surroundings
  • white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
  • winnipeg couch — a couch with no arms or back, opening out into a double bed
  • witches'-besom — witches'-broom.
  • witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
  • witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
  • world champion — someone who has won a competition open to people throughout the whole world
  • wristlet watch — a watch that is attached to a band or bracelet
  • yang chen ning — born 1922, Chinese physicist in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1957.
  • zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
  • zygomatic arch — the bony arch at the outer border of the eye socket, formed by the union of the cheekbone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.
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