16-letter words containing a, c, h, r, o
- crown and anchor — a game played with dice marked with crowns and anchors
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
- cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin
- cut-throat razor — a razor with a long blade that usually folds into the handle
- cytoarchitecture — (biology) The arrangement of cells in an organism or organ.
- cytotrophoblasts — Plural form of cytotrophoblast.
- dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
- devonshire cream — clotted cream.
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
- dihydroxyacetone — (organic compound) The compound CO(CH2OH)2 that has a number of industrial uses.
- dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
- direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
- director's chair — a lightweight folding armchair with transversely crossed legs and having a canvas seat and back panel, as traditionally used by motion-picture directors.
- discographically — In terms of discography.
- do the necessary — to do something that is necessary in a particular situation
- dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
- drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
- echocardiography — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
- electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
- electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
- electronic flash — Photography
- electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
- encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
- 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
- expectant mother — a pregnant woman
- extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
- false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
- farmhouse cheese — cheese that is made by traditional methods, on or as if on a farm
- father confessor — confessor (def 2).
- 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.
- forbush decrease — the sudden decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays after an increase in solar activity.
- force one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- 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.
- forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
- francis joseph i — 1830–1916, emperor of Austria 1848–1916; king of Hungary 1867–1916.
- frankfurt school — a school of thought, founded at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others, derived from Marxist, Freudian, and Hegelian theory
- french cameroons — Cameroun (def 2).
- 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.