14-letter words starting with chi
- chicago school — a group of Chicago architects active between c1880 and c1910 and known for major developments in skyscraper design and for experiments in a modern architectural style appropriate especially to business and industrial buildings: two of the best-known members were Louis Sullivan and John Wellborn Root.
- chicago window — a composite window, horizontal in character, consisting of a large, fixed sheet of glass between two vertical windows with sash for ventilation, first popularized in commercial buildings in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s.
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chicken fillet — a fillet cut from a chicken
- chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
- chicken little — a person who spreads baseless or exaggerated reports of danger; alarmist
- 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.
- chicken turtle — an edible, freshwater turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, of the southeastern U.S., characterized by a long neck and by the network of fine, yellow lines marking the dark carapace.
- chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- chief engineer — the senior engineer on board a ship
- chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
- chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
- child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
- child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
- childbed fever — puerperal fever.
- 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.
- chiller-diller — chiller (def 2).
- chiltern hills — a range of low chalk hills in SE England extending northwards from the Thames valley. Highest point: 260 m (852 ft)
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- chimney corner — a recess that contains a seat in a large open fireplace; inglenook
- china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
- china wood oil — tung oil
- chincherinchee — a bulbous South African liliaceous plant, Ornithogalum thyrsoides, having long spikes of white or yellow long-lasting flowers
- chinese banana — a large southern Chinese plant, Musa acuminata, of the banana family, having blue-green leaves, yellowish-white flowers with reddish-brown bracts, and fragrant, edible, curved fruit from 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 cm) long, often borne in clusters of 200.
- chinese empire — China as ruled by the emperors until the establishment of the republic in 1911–12
- chinese houses — a plant, Collinsia heterophylla, of the figwort family, native to California, having clusters of double-lipped purple and white flowers.
- chinese leaves — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
- chinese puzzle — an intricate puzzle, esp one consisting of boxes within boxes
- chinook jargon — a pidgin language containing elements of Native American languages, English, and French: formerly used among fur traders and Indians on the NW coast of North America
- chinook salmon — a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, valued as a food fish
- chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
- chisholm trail — cattle trail from San Antonio, Tex., to Abilene, Kans.: important from 1865 until the 1880s
- chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
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