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16-letter words containing a, c, h, e, n, i

  • special handling — (in the U.S. Postal Service) the handling of third- and fourth-class mail as first-class upon the payment of a fee.
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
  • stab in the back — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
  • stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
  • stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
  • steric hindrance — the prevention or retardation of inter- or intramolecular interactions as a result of the spatial structure of a molecule.
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • street christian — (especially in the 1960s) a Christian whose religious life centers more in social or communal groups than in institutional churches.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • student teaching — the act of teaching in a school for a limited period under supervision as part of a course to qualify as a teacher
  • submarine chaser — a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • take a raincheck — to accept the postponement of an offer
  • teacher training — practical teaching course
  • teaching machine — a mechanical, electrical, or other automatic device that presents the user with items of information in planned sequence, registers his or her response to each item, and immediately indicates the acceptability of each response.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
  • the annunciation — the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26–38)
  • the caine mutiny — a novel by Herman Wouk, later made into a film
  • the eternal city — Rome
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
  • theatrical agent — an intermediary who brings together actors who are seeking work and theatre producers who are offering parts
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thioarsenic acid — any of three hypothetical acids, H3AsS4, HAsS3, and H4As2S7, known only in the forms of their salts
  • throat infection — an infection or inflammation of the throat or pharynx
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
  • to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
  • topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
  • tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
  • trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
  • tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
  • umbilical hernia — a hernia of the umbilicus.
  • unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
  • uncharacteristic — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
  • underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
  • uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
  • vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
  • ward christensen — (person)   The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
  • water chinquapin — an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.
  • weighing machine — large measuring scales
  • western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
  • wheel animalcule — a rotifer.
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