14-letter words containing n, a, c, h, o, s
- 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.
- chinook salmon — a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, valued as a food fish
- chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
- chondromatosis — a painful and immobilizing condition that affects the joints, in particular the elbow, hip, and knee joints, and results in the synovial tissue becoming cartilaginous
- chondrosarcoma — A type of bone cancer, a cartilage-based tumour.
- chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
- chromodynamics — a theory that describes how gluons and their forces bind quarks together to form protons, neutrons, etc.
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
- cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
- commandantship — the office of a commandant
- companionships — Plural form of companionship.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- consultantship — the office or function of a consultant
- container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
- coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
- half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- hanging scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- hash collision — (programming) (Or "hash clash") When two different keys hash to the same value, i.e. to the same location in a hash table.
- have a case on — an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something: Sailing in such a storm was a case of poor judgment.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
- hepatopancreas — a large gland of shrimps, lobsters, and crabs that combines the functions of a liver and pancreas.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- historicalness — The quality of being historical.