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14-letter words containing ha

  • channel tunnel — the Anglo-French railway tunnel that runs beneath the English Channel, between Folkestone and Coquelles, near Calais; opened in 1994
  • channelization — the action or process of channelizing
  • chantilly lace — a delicate ornamental lace
  • chaparral bird — roadrunner.
  • chaparral cock — roadrunner
  • chaparral lily — a lily, Lilium rubescens, of the western coast of the U.S., having pale lilac-colored flowers that turn rose-purple.
  • chapel of ease — a church built to accommodate those living at a distance from the parish church
  • chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
  • chaptalization — a method of increasing the alcohol in a wine by adding sugar to the must before or during fermentation.
  • character code — a machine-readable code that identifies a specified character or a set of such codes
  • character part — a lesser role in a drama, but one where the actor is called upon to display particular distinctive traits of character
  • character type — a cluster of personality traits commonly occurring together in an individual
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • characteristic — The characteristics of a person or thing are the qualities or features that belong to them and make them recognizable.
  • characterizing — Present participle of characterize.
  • characterology — the academic study of character
  • charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
  • charge carrier — an electron, hole, or ion that transports the electric charge in an electric current
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charge-a-plate — charge plate.
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • charity school — an elementary school, usually funded by charitable persons or organizations, for those unable to pay: a forerunner of the public-school system.
  • charles albert — 1798–1849, king of Sardinia-Piedmont (1831–49) during the Risorgimento: abdicated after the failure of his revolt against Austria
  • charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
  • charles martel — grandfather of Charlemagne. ?688–741 ad, Frankish ruler of Austrasia (715–41), who checked the Muslim invasion of Europe by defeating the Moors at Poitiers (732)
  • charles sumner — Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
  • charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
  • charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charles's wain — Big Dipper
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • charm bracelet — a bracelet that has small ornaments fixed to it
  • charmed circle — If you refer to a group of people as a charmed circle, you mean that they seem to have special power or influence, and do not allow anyone else to join their group.
  • charter colony — a colony, such as Virginia or Massachusetts, created by royal charter under the control of an individual, trading company, etc, and exempt from interference by the Crown
  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • charter member — A charter member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • charter school — an alternative school that is founded on a charter, or contract, between a sponsoring group and a governmental unit and is funded with public money
  • chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
  • chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
  • chase pointers — (programming)   To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • cherry orchard — an orchard planted in cherry trees
  • chevra kadisha — a Jewish burial society, usually composed of unpaid volunteers who provide funerals for members of their congregation
  • chlorothalonil — a crystalline compound, C 8 Cl 4 N 2, used as a fungicide on vegetable crops, peanuts, and lawns, and as a preservative in adhesives and paints.
  • chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
  • choctawhatchee — a river in SE Alabama and NW Florida, flowing S to Choctawhatchee Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. 174 miles (280 km) long.
  • 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
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
  • cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
  • coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
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