14-letter words containing re
- ceremonial tea — a Japanese green tea made from choice shade-grown leaves that are cured by a steaming, drying, and powdering process: used in chanoyu.
- chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
- chain reaction — A chain reaction is a series of chemical changes, each of which causes the next.
- chancel screen — a screen separating the chancel from the main body of a 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
- 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
- check register — A check register is a record of transactions in a checking account.
- 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.
- chemoreception — the response of a chemoreceptor to chemical stimuli
- chemoreceptive — responsive to chemical stimuli
- chemoreceptors — Plural form of chemoreceptor.
- chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
- chest register — the lower register of the voice, in which the lower range of tones is produced
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- chinese empire — China as ruled by the emperors until the establishment of the republic in 1911–12
- chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
- chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
- chocolate tree — cacao (def 1).
- choreographers — Plural form of choreographer.
- choreographies — Plural form of choreography.
- choreographing — Present participle of choreograph.
- chrestomathies — Plural form of chrestomathy.
- christmas tree — A Christmas tree is a fir tree, or an artificial tree that looks like a fir tree, which people put in their houses at Christmas and decorate with coloured lights and ornaments.
- chromatophores — Plural form of chromatophore.
- cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
- cigarette butt — A cigarette butt or a cigarette end is the part of a cigarette that you throw away when you have finished smoking it.
- cigarette card — a small picture card, formerly given away with cigarettes, now collected as a hobby
- cigarette case — a case of a suitable size and shape to hold cigarettes
- cigarette girl — a woman who sells cigars and cigarettes, usually from a tray displaying various brands, to customers in a restaurant or nightclub.
- circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
- circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- clarendon code — four acts passed by the Cavalier Parliament between 1661 and 1665 to deal with the religious problems of the Restoration
- clock repairer — a person who mends clocks, watches, etc
- close juncture — continuity in the articulation of two successive sounds, as in the normal transition between sounds within a word; absence of juncture (opposed to open juncture). Compare juncture (def 7), open juncture, terminal juncture.
- co-religionist — A person's co-religionists are people who have the same religion.
- co-respondents — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
- cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
- coffee-colored — having the medium-brown color of coffee mixed with cream or milk; moderately brown.
- coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
- coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
- commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
- commodore 1010 — (storage) A 3.5-inch floppy disk drive for the Amiga.
- commodore 1541 — (storage) The best known floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64. The 1541 was a single-sided 160 Kb drive but converting to flippy disks would give another 160 Kb. The disk drive used Group Code Recording and contained a 6502 processor as a disk controller. Some people wrote code for it to vibrate the head at different frequencies to play tunes. The transfer rate was about 300 bytes per second. The 1541 used a bit-serial version of the IEEE 488 parallel protocol. Some third-party speed-ups could transfer about 4 kilobytes per second over the interface, and some "fast loaders" managed up to 10 kbps. The Commodore 1570 was an upgraded 1541 for use with the Commodore 128.
- commodore 1570 — (storage) Commodore Business Machines's allegedly "advanced" disk drive for use with the C128. It is basically a 1541 with the capability to use "burst loading" (like the Commodore 1571), and lots of new bugs. The Commodore 1571 was a double-sided version of the 1570.