14-letter words that end in h
- casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
- caustic potash — potassium hydroxide
- chemoautotroph — an organism that obtains energy through chemoautotrophy
- chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
- christmas bush — any of various trees or shrubs flowering at Christmas and used for decoration
- cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
- circuit switch — circuit switching
- circular pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- class 5 switch — (communications) The lowest designation used in AT&T's hierarchical General Toll Switching Plan, developed in 1929.
- climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
- cloister garth — garth (def 1).
- coal-tar pitch — a residue left by the distillation of coal tar: a mixture of hydrocarbons and finely divided carbon used as a binder for fuel briquettes, road surfaces, and carbon electrodes
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- come down with — If you come down with an illness, you get it.
- complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
- context switch — (operating system) When a multitasking operating system stops running one process and starts running another. Many operating systems implement concurrency by maintaining separate environments or "contexts" for each process. The amount of separation between processes, and the amount of information in a context, depends on the operating system but generally the OS should prevent processes interfering with each other, e.g. by modifying each other's memory. A context switch can be as simple as changing the value of the program counter and stack pointer or it might involve resetting the MMU to make a different set of memory pages available. In order to present the user with an impression of parallism, and to allow processes to respond quickly to external events, many systems will context switch tens or hundreds of times per second.
- cost the earth — to be very expensive
- county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
- courtesy coach — a free coach
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- crash for cash — denoting a type of insurance fraud in which people bring about road accidents to ensure that a substantial claim is made
- 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.
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- cut-off switch — a switch that cuts off the supply of electricity
- dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- delayed speech — a speech disorder of children in which the levels of intelligibility, vocabulary, complexity of utterance, etc., are significantly below the levels considered standard for a particular age.
- desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
- diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
- directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
- down the hatch — drinks toast
- draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
- drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
- elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
- encephalograph — any other apparatus used to produce an encephalogram
- exercise bench — (in a gymnasium) a low table, which may be inclined, used for various exercises
- eyeball search — (jargon) (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- feel the pinch — If a person or company is feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
- field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- fireproof dish — a dish that can withstand heat
- firth of forth — an inlet of the North Sea in SE Scotland: spanned by a cantilever railway bridge 1600 m (almost exactly 1 mile) long (1889), and by a road bridge (1964)
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.