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14-letter words containing n, s, h, e

  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • comprehensions — Plural form of comprehension.
  • comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
  • conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
  • coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
  • container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
  • 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.
  • controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
  • convent school — A convent school is a school where many of the teachers are nuns.
  • coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
  • coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
  • coquettishness — The state or quality of being coquettish.
  • costume change — a change of costume by an actor
  • cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
  • count the cost — If someone counts the cost of something that has happened or will happen, they consider how the consequences of that action or event affect them.
  • counter-thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
  • countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
  • countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
  • counterpunches — Plural form of counterpunch.
  • 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
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
  • cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
  • death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
  • death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
  • death sentence — A death sentence is a punishment of death given by a judge to someone who has been found guilty of a serious crime such as murder.
  • deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
  • dechristianize — to make non-Christian
  • dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
  • dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
  • dennis ritchie — (person)   Dennis M. Ritchie, co-author of the Unix operating system, inventor of the C programming language and demigod. See also K&R, Core War, If you want X, you know where to find it.
  • 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.
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
  • diamond-shaped — rhombic
  • diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
  • die in harness — to die while still working or active, prior to retirement
  • discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
  • disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
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