14-letter words containing ch
- chronologizing — to arrange in chronological order.
- 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.
- chronosequence — (geology) A sequence of different soils formed at different times.
- chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
- church council — (in certain Lutheran churches) a body of lay delegates chosen from the congregation and charged with supporting the pastor in religious instruction, contributions to the church, etc.
- 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.
- church of rome — the Roman Catholic Church
- church service — an instance of a religious service in a church
- church visible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth.
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- church, alonzo — Alonzo Church
- circuit switch — circuit switching
- circular pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- clabber cheese — cottage cheese.
- class 5 switch — (communications) The lowest designation used in AT&T's hierarchical General Toll Switching Plan, developed in 1929.
- class schedule — In a school or college, a class schedule is a list that shows the times in the week at which particular subjects are taught. You can also refer to the range of subjects that a student learns or the classes that a teacher teaches as their class schedule.
- climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
- climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
- co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
- coach operator — a company that operates a business involving the transport of passengers in coaches
- 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
- coach-and-four — a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.
- coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
- coal-tar pitch — a residue left by the distillation of coal tar: a mixture of hydrocarbons and finely divided carbon used as a binder for fuel briquettes, road surfaces, and carbon electrodes
- cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
- cochlear nerve — the branch of the auditory nerve that connects with the cochlea and transmits impulses to the hearing center of the brain
- 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.
- coffee machine — a machine that makes coffee from ground coffee
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- colby (cheese) — a variety of cheese similar to Cheddar but softer, moister, and more porous
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- 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.
- convent school — A convent school is a school where many of the teachers are nuns.
- 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
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cottage cheese — Cottage cheese is a soft, white, lumpy cheese made from sour milk.
- council school — (esp formerly) any school maintained by the state
- counterchanged — Exchanged.
- countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
- counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
- countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- counterpunched — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpunch.
- counterpuncher — a boxer who waits for an opponent to attack before punching