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13-letter words containing che

  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • checkout line — A checkout line is a line of customers waiting to pay at a checkout counter.
  • checkpointing — Present participle of checkpoint.
  • checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
  • cheddar gorge — a pass through the Mendip Hills renowned for its stalactitic caverns and rare limestone flora
  • cheek by jowl — If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other.
  • cheerer-upper — a person or thing that cheers a person up: A good joke is the best cheerer-upper.
  • cheerlessness — The state or characteristic of being cheerless.
  • cheese grater — an implement for grating cheese
  • cheese spread — a processed cheese of smooth and spreadable consistency.
  • cheeseburgers — Plural form of cheeseburger.
  • cheesemongers — Plural form of cheesemonger.
  • chef-d'oeuvre — a masterpiece
  • cheiloschisis — Cleft lip.
  • cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
  • chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • chemical peel — a cosmetic treatment used to eliminate wrinkles, blemishes, etc., in which an acid is applied to the face, neck, or hands, causing a layer of skin to peel off.
  • chemical pulp — wood pulp made from chemically treated and cooked wood fibers and used in the manufacture of better grades of paper.
  • chemin de fer — a gambling game, a variation of baccarat
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • chemistry set — equipment and chemicals that enable a child to do experiments
  • chemoreceptor — a sensory receptor in a biological cell membrane to which an external molecule binds to generate a smell or taste sensation
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • chemotaxonomy — the taxonomy of species of organisms based on biochemical characteristics
  • cherokee rose — an evergreen climbing Chinese rose, Rosa laevigata, that now grows wild in the southern US, having large white fragrant flowers
  • cherry brandy — a red liqueur made of brandy flavoured with cherries
  • cherry laurel — a Eurasian rosaceous evergreen shrub, Prunus laurocerasus, having glossy aromatic leaves, white flowers, and purplish-black fruits
  • cherry pepper — a variety of pepper, Capsicum annuum cerasiforme, having rounded, usually pungent fruit.
  • cherry picker — a hydraulic crane, esp one mounted on a lorry, that has an elbow joint or telescopic arm supporting a basket-like platform enabling a person to service high power lines or to carry out similar operations above the ground
  • cherry tomato — a miniature tomato not much bigger than a cherry
  • cherry-picker — a moveable boom, having a bucketlike attachment at its top that is large enough to carry a worker: used for repairing telephone lines, pruning trees, etc.
  • cheshire east — a unitary authority in NW England. Administrative centre: Sandbach. Pop: 358 900 (2008 est). Area: 1160 sq km (448 sq miles)
  • chest freezer — a freezer shaped like a chest with a door that opens by lifting up
  • chester white — a variety of large, white hog
  • chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
  • chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
  • chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
  • cheval screen — a fire screen, usually with a cloth panel, having supports at the ends and mounted on legs.
  • cheviot hills — a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland, mainly in Northumberland
  • chew-'n'-spew — any fast-food restaurant considered to be serving poor quality food
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chinese chess — a Chinese game, resembling chess, played on a board consisting of two halves, each eight squares by four, with a strip separating them: pieces representing the military of ancient China are placed on the intersections of the lines and the game is won when a general is checkmated.
  • chinkerinchee — a flowering plant, Ornithogalum thyrsoides, that produces clusters of white and yellow flowers
  • chokecherries — Plural form of chokecherry.
  • class teacher — a teacher who teaches a class
  • clincher tire — an automobile tire having on each side of its inner circumference a rubber flange that fits under the turned-over edge of the wheel rim.
  • clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
  • clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
  • clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
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