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15-letter words containing l, c, h, a, i, n

  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • crawling horror — (jargon)   Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
  • cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
  • crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
  • cyanoethylation — the act of introducing a cyano-ethyl group into a compound
  • cycling holiday — a holiday in which one cycles between destinations
  • cyclohexylamine — a highly toxic and hazardous organic chemical derived from cyclohexane
  • czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
  • dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
  • disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
  • early christian — denoting or relating to the style of architecture that started in Italy in the 3rd century ad and spread through the Roman empire until the 5th century
  • eight-bit clean — (software)   A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
  • eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
  • encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
  • encephalopathic — Relating to encephalopathy.
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • english channel — waterway between England and France
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
  • glass harmonica — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated, revolving glass bowls, the rims of which are moistened and set in vibration by friction from the fingertips.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • hanging glacier — a glacier situated on a shelf above a valley or another glacier; it may be joined to the lower level by an icefall or separate from it
  • haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
  • heliacal rising — rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
  • herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
  • hip replacement — a surgical procedure involving replacing the hip joint with an artificial implant
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hyaluronic acid — a mucopolysaccharide serving as a viscous medium in the tissues of the body and as a lubricant in joints.
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
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