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13-letter words containing che

  • lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
  • level 1 cache — primary cache
  • level 2 cache — secondary cache
  • lichenic acid — fumaric acid.
  • lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
  • life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
  • luncheon club — (in Britain) an arrangement or organization for serving hot midday meals for a small charge to old people in clubs or daycentres
  • luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
  • luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
  • maccheroncini — thin pasta tubes made from wheat flour
  • matched order — an order placed with a broker to buy a specified stock at a price above the market price with the intention of immediately selling the stock through another broker at the same price. It is designed to give the appearance of active trading in the stock.
  • michelin star — a mark of distinction awarded by the Michelin travel guides to a restaurant in recognition of the high quality of its cooking. A restaurant may receive one, two, or three stars, representing very good, exceptional, or exquisite cuisine, respectively
  • microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
  • molly pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
  • moustache cup — mustache cup.
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • nanochemistry — (chemistry) The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale.
  • natchez trace — a road begun in 1806 between Natchez, Miss., and Nashville, Tenn.: about 500 miles (800 km) long.
  • neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
  • niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
  • non-scheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
  • nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • orchesography — a written study of dancing
  • orchestra pit — musicians' seating in front of stage
  • orchestra-pit — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
  • orchestralist — a person who writes or arranges orchestral music
  • orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
  • orchestration — (uncountable) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
  • orchestrators — Plural form of orchestrator.
  • overstretched — to stretch excessively.
  • oystercatcher — any of several long-billed wading birds of the genus Haematopus that have chiefly black-and-white plumage and that feed on oysters, clams, mussels, etc.
  • pas de cheval — a step in which the dancer hops on one foot and paws the ground with the other.
  • passchendaele — a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost
  • pay the check — When a customer pays the check in a restaurant, they pay the amount that they owe for their meal.
  • penny pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
  • penny-pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
  • petrochemical — a chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
  • photochemical — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
  • phytochemical — Also called phytonutrient. any of various bioactive chemical compounds found in plants, as antioxidants, considered to be beneficial to human health.
  • piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
  • pied-de-biche — a termination to a leg, consisting of a slight outward curve ending in the semblance of a cloven hoof.
  • pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • porte-cochere — a covered carriage entrance leading into a courtyard.
  • preacher curl — a weightlifting exercise for the biceps in which a barbell is lifted by flexing the elbows, with the upper arms resting on an angled bench
  • press attaché — the official in an embassy who has the job of liaising with the media
  • primary cache — (hardware, architecture)   (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • queue fourche — (of a lion) having a single tail divided in two partway along its length so as to have two complete ends.
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