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16-letter words containing a, c, h, i, r

  • electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
  • engineer's chain — a unit of length equal to 100 feet
  • enriched uranium — uranium in which the proportion of the fissile isotope U-235 has been increased to make it more fissile
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • ethnocentrically — In an ethnocentric way.
  • ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
  • exotic shorthair — a short-haired variety of domestic cat with a stocky body, developed through crossing Persian cats with American shorthairs
  • fahrenheit scale — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
  • father christmas — Santa Claus.
  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • firewall machine — (networking, security)   A dedicated gateway server with special security precautions on it, used to service external connections (typically from the public Internet). The firewall machine protects servers and networks hidden behind it from crackers. The typical firewall is an inexpensive microprocessor-based Unix machine with no critical data, with public network ports on it, but just one carefully watched connection back to the rest of the cluster. The special precautions may include threat monitoring, call-back, and even a complete iron box keyable to particular incoming IDs or activity patterns. The type of network and security environment of a firewall machine is often called a De-Militarised Zone (DMZ). It may contain other servers such as e-mail servers or proxy gateways - machines that need to be publicly accessible but also need some access to internal systems. Also known as a (Venus) flytrap after the insect-eating plant.
  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • foreign exchange — commercial paper drawn on a person or corporation in a foreign nation.
  • forward chaining — A data-driven technique used in constructing goals or reaching inferences derived from a set of facts. Forward chaining is the basis of production systems. Oppose backward chaining.
  • franchise clause — a clause stipulating that the insured will be responsible for any loss not in excess of a stated amount, and the insurance company will be liable for full payment of the loss equaling or exceeding the amount up to the insured amount.
  • francis joseph i — 1830–1916, emperor of Austria 1848–1916; king of Hungary 1867–1916.
  • franking machine — a machine that franks letters
  • french ice cream — a type of ice cream in which an egg and cream mixture is cooked to a light custard before being frozen.
  • french indochina — an area in SE Asia, formerly a French colonial federation including Cochin-China, the protectorates of Annam, Cambodia, Tonkin, and Laos, and the leased territory of Kwangchowan: now comprising the three independent states of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Capital: Hanoi.
  • french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
  • gabriel, richard — Richard Gabriel
  • galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
  • garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
  • geochronological — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
  • geographic range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible to the eye at a given elevation, assuming that the weather is clear and that the light is sufficiently powerful to be visible from any point at which it appears above the horizon.
  • geomorphological — Of or pertaining to geomorphology.
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • graphic designer — person: commercial artist
  • graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
  • graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
  • graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics)   (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
  • great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • haemochromatosis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemochromatosis.
  • hair conditioner — a substance used, often after shampooing, to detangle and improve the condition of the hair. Like shampoo, it is applied to wet hair and then rinsed out after applying.
  • hairbrush cactus — a stout, spiny cactus, Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum, of Mexico, having white flowers and bristly fruits sometimes used locally as combs.
  • hairy woodpecker — a North American woodpecker, Picoides villosus, resembling but larger than the downy woodpecker.
  • hamming, richard — Richard Hamming
  • handling charges — a fee paid to cover the packaging, transport, etc, of a commodity
  • haptic interface — (interface, hardware)   A touch interface to a computer that provides feedback, such as a data glove.
  • hard rock mining — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
  • harvard graphics — (graphics, tool)   A presentation graphics product by Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) for creating presentations, speeches, slides, etc..
  • health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
  • health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
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