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16-letter words containing a, d, h, e, r, n

  • acetic anhydride — a colourless pungent liquid used in the manufacture of cellulose and vinyl acetates for synthetic fabrics. Formula: (CH3CO)2O
  • acorn archimedes — Archimedes
  • alpha-adrenergic — of or having to do with an alpha receptor
  • amende honorable — a public apology and reparation made to satisfy the honour of the person wronged
  • amidinohydrazone — any of a group of pesticides, originally developed as antimalarial and antitubercular drugs, that impair cell respiration in cockroaches, red ants, and other insects.
  • anderson shelter — a small prefabricated air-raid shelter of World War II consisting of an arch of corrugated metal and designed to be partly buried in people's gardens and covered with earth for protection
  • andrei vishinsky — Andrei Yanuarievich [uhn-dryey yi-noo-ah-ryi-vyich] /ʌnˈdryeɪ yɪ nuˈɑ ryɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1883–1954, Soviet statesman.
  • arms and the man — a comedy (1898) by G. B. Shaw.
  • around the clock — continuing without pause or interruption: an around-the-clock guard on the prisoner.
  • around the world — in many countries
  • around-the-clock — all day and all night
  • ascending rhythm — rising rhythm.
  • at the sharp end — If you say that someone is at the sharp end of a particular activity or type of work, you mean that they are involved in the most difficult or dangerous aspects of it.
  • athanasian creed — a profession of faith widely used in the Western Church which, although formerly attributed to Athanasius, probably originated in Gaul between 381 and 428 ad
  • audience chamber — a room where a monarch or head of state conducts formal interviews
  • avian diphtheria — a virus disease of chickens and other birds characterized by warty excrescences on the comb and wattles, and often by diphtherialike changes in the mucous membranes of the head.
  • background check — an investigation into a person's origins and previous history
  • bearish tendency — a tendency for share prices to fall
  • bird in the hand — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • birthday present — a gift given to someone on their birthday
  • bleaching powder — a white powder with the odour of chlorine, consisting of chlorinated calcium hydroxide with an approximate formula CaCl(OCl).4H2O. It is used in solution as a bleaching agent and disinfectant
  • bonded warehouse — a warehouse in which dutiable goods are deposited until duty is paid or the goods are cleared for export
  • bonhomme richard — the flagship of John Paul Jones.
  • bornholm disease — an epidemic virus infection characterized by pain round the base of the chest
  • bright and early — very early in the morning
  • bureau de change — a place where foreign currencies can be exchanged
  • caducibranchiate — (of many amphibians, such as frogs) having gills during one stage of the life cycle only
  • camborne-redruth — a former (until 1974) urban district in SW England, in Cornwall: formed in 1934 by the amalgamation of the neighbouring towns of Camborne and Redruth. Pop: 39 936 (2001)
  • cash on delivery — If you pay for goods cash on delivery, you pay for them in cash when they are delivered. The abbreviation C.O.D. is also used.
  • catch red-handed — If someone is caught red-handed, they are caught while they are in the act of doing something wrong.
  • catchwater drain — a channel cut along the edge of high ground to catch surface water from it and divert it away from low-lying ground
  • catherine howardCatherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
  • centrally heated — A centrally heated building or room has central heating.
  • channel islander — a person who comes from one of the Channel Islands
  • charles chandlerCharles Frederick, 1836–1925, U.S. scientist, educator, and public-health expert.
  • chase the dragon — to smoke opium or heroin
  • childcare center — a place or business offering childcare for working parents
  • children's panel — (in Scotland) a group of representatives of relevant agencies, with the power to deal with a child under sixteen who is in criminal or family trouble. Its hearings are private and replace most of the functions of juvenile courts
  • chinese calendar — the former calendar of China, in which the year consisted of 12 lunar months with an intercalary month added seven times every 19 years to reconcile the lunar year of 354 days with the solar year of 365 days, time being reckoned in 60-year cycles with the first cycle dating from 2637 b.c.
  • chlorinated lime — bleaching powder.
  • chlorogenic acid — a colorless crystalline acid, C 16 H 18 O 9 , that is important in plant metabolism and is purportedly responsible for the browning or blackening of cut apples, potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables.
  • christmas dinner — the main meal on Christmas day, eaten any time in the afternoon or evening
  • clearsightedness — The property of being clearsighted.
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • corned beef hash — a dish consisting of corned beef chopped and mixed together with mashed potatoes and various other ingredients, then fried
  • corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
  • dark of the moon — the period during which the moon is not visible.
  • darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
  • darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis

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