15-letter words containing chi
- child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
- child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
- child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
- children of god — a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.
- children's home — care institution for minors
- children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
- chile con carne — chili con carne
- chile saltpeter — sodium nitrate, esp. as found naturally in Chile and Peru
- chile saltpetre — a naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate: a soluble white or colourless mineral occurring in arid regions, esp in Chile and Peru
- chili con carne — Chili con carne is a dish made from meat, with a thick sauce of tomatoes, and powdered or fresh chilies.
- chiller cabinet — a cupboard or chest in a shop where chilled foods and drinks are displayed and kept cool
- chilling effect — a discouraging or deterring effect, especially one resulting from a restrictive law or regulation.
- chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
- chimney-pot hat — a high silk hat; top hat.
- chinese cabbage — a Chinese plant, Brassica pekinensis, that is related to the cabbage and has crisp edible leaves growing in a loose cylindrical head
- chinese crested — a small dog of a Chinese breed having long slender legs and a hairless body with hair only on the feet, head, and tail
- chinese gelatin — agar (def 1).
- chinese juniper — a shrub or tree, Juniperus chinensis, of China, Mongolia, and Japan, having scalelike leaves and small, round, purplish-brown fruit.
- chinese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
- chinese lantern — a collapsible lantern made of thin coloured paper
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- chinese parsley — coriander leaves used as an herb; cilantro
- chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
- chintz curtains — curtains made of chintz
- chiropterophily — Pollination by bats.
- chitlin circuit — a group of clubs and theaters featuring black performers and intended to appeal to black people.
- churchill falls — a waterfall in E Canada, in SW Labrador on the Churchill River: site of one of the largest hydroelectric power projects in the world. Height: 75 m (245 ft)
- communist china — China, People's Republic of.
- complex-machine — Older Use. an automobile or airplane. a typewriter.
- cooktown orchid — a purple Australian orchid, Dendrobium bigibbum, found in Queensland, of which it is the floral emblem
- copying machine — a machine that makes copies of original documents, especially by xerography.
- countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
- counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
- deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
- disenfranchised — to disfranchise.
- disenfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenfranchise.
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
- enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
- eustachian tube — part of the ear
- factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
- field chickweed — starry grasswort.
- heart-searching — a thorough examination of one's feelings and motives; a self-examination of one's conscience.
- hitachi hd64180 — (processor) A processor family which adds peripherals and an MMU to the Zilog Z80.
- hoochie-coochie — hootchy-kootchy
- inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- ironstone china — a tough durable earthenware
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- label switching — (networking) A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.