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14-letter words containing he

  • brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
  • brown thrasher — a common large songbird, Toxostoma rufum, of the eastern U.S., having reddish-brown plumage.
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • buckwheat cake — a pancake made of buckwheat flour.
  • buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
  • buckwheat note — shape note.
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • bulgur (wheat) — wheat that has been cooked, dried, and coarsely ground: used to make tabbouleh or, sometimes, pilaf or couscous
  • bull stretcher — Also called bullnose stretcher. a brick having one of the edges along its length rounded for laying as a stretcher in a sill or the like.
  • burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
  • butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
  • by the numbers — in prescribed sequence of movements and accompanied by a count
  • by the vanload — in very large quantities
  • cache conflict — (storage)   A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
  • cafe con leche — a drink made by mixing strong coffee with hot or scalded milk
  • call the shots — The person who calls the shots is in a position to tell others what to do.
  • caloosahatchee — a river in S Florida, flowing W to the Gulf of Mexico near Fort Myers. 75 miles (121 km) long.
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • can't help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • can't help sth — If you can't help the way you feel or behave, you cannot control it or stop it happening. You can also say that you can't help yourself.
  • canada hemlock — a hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, of eastern North America, having horizontal branches that often droop to the ground: the state tree of Pennsylvania.
  • canceled check — a check that has been redeemed by a bank and then usually returned to the issuer.
  • cap the climax — to be or do more than could be expected or believed
  • carpet muncher — lesbian
  • carry the ball — to assume responsibility; take command
  • casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
  • catcher's mitt — the glove worn by the catcher to protect the hands
  • cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
  • cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
  • catherine parr — Catherine, Catherine Parr.
  • cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
  • cephalhematoma — Alt form cephalohematoma.
  • cercopithecoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the primate superfamily Cercopithecoidea (Old World monkeys)
  • cheap as chips — inexpensive; good value
  • check register — A check register is a record of transactions in a checking account.
  • check the helm — to swing back the helm of a vessel to prevent it from turning too quickly or too far
  • check-out time — the time by which one has to check out of a hotel
  • checkerberries — Plural form of checkerberry.
  • checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
  • checkered lily — a lily, Fritillaria meleagris, native to Europe, having solitary, checkered, red-purple flowers mottled with greenish yellow.
  • cheddar cheese — a hard, smooth-textured cheese, made usually from the whole milk of cows and varying in color from white to deep yellow and in flavor from mild to sharp as it ages.
  • cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
  • cheese skipper — a dipterous fly, Piophila casei, whose larvae feed on cheese and move by jumping: family Piophilidae
  • cheesebox seat — a chair seat, usually of rush, having a rounded form and surrounded with a thin strip of wood.
  • chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • chemical plant — a factory that produces or processes chemicals
  • chemical toner — toner (def 4).
  • chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
  • chemoautotroph — an organism that obtains energy through chemoautotrophy
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