14-letter words containing h
- courtesy coach — a free coach
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
- crash for cash — denoting a type of insurance fraud in which people bring about road accidents to ensure that a substantial claim is made
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- cremnitz white — lead white.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- crepe de chine — a very thin crepe of silk or a similar light fabric
- crime fighting — the series of measures and actions taken by the forces of the law to combat crime
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- croagh patrick — a mountain in NW Republic of Ireland, in Mayo: a place of pilgrimage as Saint Patrick is said to have prayed and fasted there. Height: 765 m (2510 ft)
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
- crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
- cruft together — (jargon) To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
- cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
- crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cryptaesthetic — of or relating to cryptaesthesia
- cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
- cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- cryptorchidism — a congenital condition in which one or both testicles fail to descend into the scrotum
- crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
- cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
- cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
- curiosity shop — a shop selling unusual items and curios
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
- cut sheet feed — the automatic movement of single sheets of paper through the platen of the printer
- cut the cackle — to stop chattering; be quiet
- cut the comedy — to stop joking
- cut-off switch — a switch that cuts off the supply of electricity
- cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
- cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
- cyberthrillers — Plural form of cyberthriller.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc