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16-letter words containing a, h, n

  • bronchial asthma — asthma.
  • bronchopneumonia — inflammation of the lungs, originating in the bronchioles
  • brother jonathan — the United States or its people: predecessor of Uncle Sam
  • buckley's chance — no chance at all
  • buckthorn family — the plant family Rhamnaceae, characterized by shrubs and trees having alternate, simple leaves, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a drupe or capsule, and including the buckthorn, cascara, and New Jersey tea.
  • buoyancy chamber — an enclosed section of a canoe, float, ship or other object that contains air, foam, or another buoyant substance in order to help maintain buoyancy
  • bureau de change — a place where foreign currencies can be exchanged
  • business machine — a machine for expediting clerical work, as a tabulator or adding machine.
  • busman's holiday — If you have a holiday, but spend it doing something similar to your usual work, you can refer to it as a busman's holiday.
  • butternut squash — a variety of squash with brownish-yellow rind and orange flesh
  • buying behaviour — the behaviours displayed by consumers when they purchase things, such as preferences, price points, etc
  • byzantine church — Orthodox Church (def 1).
  • cache on a stick — (architecture)   (COAST) Intel Corporation attempt to's standardise the modular L2 cache subsystem in Pentium-based computers. A COAST module should be about 4.35" wide by 1.14" high. According to earlier specifications from Motorola, a module between 4.33" and 4.36" wide, and between 1.12" and 1.16" high is within the COAST standard. Some module vendors, including some major motherboard suppliers, greatly violate the height specification. Another COAST specification violated by many suppliers concerns clock distribution in synchronous modules. The specification requires that the clock tree to each synchronous chip be balanced, i.e. equal length from edge of the connector to individual chips. An unbalanced clock tree increases reflections and noise. For a 256 kilobyte cache module the standard requires the same clock be used for both chips but some vendors use separate clocks to reduce loading on the clock driver and hence increase the clock speed. However, this creates unbalanced loading in other motherboard configurations, such as motherboards with soldered caches in the system.
  • caducibranchiate — (of many amphibians, such as frogs) having gills during one stage of the life cycle only
  • call one's shots — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • 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)
  • can-not help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • canadian english — the English language as spoken in Canada
  • canadian hemlock — eastern hemlock.
  • canyon de chelly — a canyon in NE Arizona, in the Navajo reservation: site contains prehistoric cliff dwellings.
  • carnot's theorem — the principle that no engine operating between two given temperatures can be more efficient than a Carnot engine operating between the same temperatures.
  • carpatho-ukraine — a region in W Ukraine: ceded by Czechoslovakia in 1945.
  • carpenter gothic — (sometimes initial capital letters) a style of Victorian Gothic architecture adapted to the resources of contemporary woodworking tools and machinery.
  • 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.
  • cash transaction — a piece of business, for example an act of buying or selling something
  • catch oneself on — to realize that one's actions are mistaken
  • catch red-handed — If someone is caught red-handed, they are caught while they are in the act of doing something wrong.
  • catch sb napping — If someone is caught napping, something happens when they are not prepared for it, although they should have been.
  • 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 howard — Catherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
  • centrally heated — A centrally heated building or room has central heating.
  • chain of command — the various individual officers, ranks etc that constitute a hierarchy each level receiving orders from the one above it and passing on the orders to the one below
  • chain-link fence — a type of fence made of a mesh woven from steel wire
  • chalon-sur-saône — an industrial city in E central France, on the Saône River. Pop: 50 124 (1999)
  • champagne bucket — A champagne bucket is a container that holds ice cubes or cold water and ice. You can use it to put bottles of champagne in and keep the champagne cool.
  • chance one's arm — to attempt to do something although the chance of success may be slight
  • chancellorsville — hamlet in NE Va. (now called Chancellor): site of a Civil War battle (May, 1863) won by Confederate forces
  • channel crossing — a crossing of the English Channel
  • channel islander — a person who comes from one of the Channel Islands
  • chanson de geste — one of a genre of Old French epic poems celebrating heroic deeds, the most famous of which is the Chanson de Roland
  • character string — a series of characters that can be manipulated as a group, but do not necessarily represent anything
  • characterisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of characterization.
  • characterization — Characterization is the way an author or an actor describes or shows what a character is like.
  • charles chandler — Charles Frederick, 1836–1925, U.S. scientist, educator, and public-health expert.
  • charles coughlin — Charles Edward ("Father Coughlin") 1891–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic priest, activist, radio broadcaster, and editor, born in Canada.
  • chase the dragon — to smoke opium or heroin
  • chattel personal — an item of movable personal property, such as furniture, domestic animals, etc
  • chattering class — well-educated members of the upper-middle or upper class who freely express especially liberal opinions or judgments on current issues and events.
  • chauvinistically — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
  • checking account — A checking account is a personal bank account which you can take money out of at any time using your cheque book or cash card.
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