16-letter words containing c, a, t, h, o, l
- cholesterolaemia — the presence of abnormally high levels of cholesterol in the blood
- chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
- chromolithograph — a picture produced by chromolithography
- cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
- civilian clothes — not military uniform
- clean technology — techniques used in manufacturing processes that minimize the damage caused to the environment
- close by/at hand — Something that is close by or close at hand is near to you.
- cochineal cactus — a treelike cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera, of Mexico and Central America, that is a principal source of food of the cochineal insect.
- cochineal insect — a Mexican homopterous insect, Dactylopius coccus, that feeds on cacti
- cochlear implant — a device that stimulates the acoustic nerve in the inner ear in order to produce some form of hearing in people who are deaf from inner ear disease
- cock of the walk — a person who asserts himself or herself in a strutting pompous way
- coital exanthema — a common venereal disease affecting horses and cattle, caused by a virus and characterized by the appearance of pustules on the mucous membranes of the genital organs and neighboring skin.
- colonial heights — a town in central Virginia.
- columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
- commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
- comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
- cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
- counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
- cyclohexamantane — (chemistry) A certain diamondoid, C26H30.
- cytotrophoblasts — Plural form of cytotrophoblast.
- dealcoholization — to remove some or all of the alcohol from (a drink).
- dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
- dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
- diplomatic pouch — a sealed mailbag containing diplomatic correspondence that is sent free of inspection between a foreign office and its diplomatic or consular post abroad or from one such post to another.
- direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
- dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
- 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.
- encephalitogenic — That can cause encephalitis.
- epigallocatechin — Gallocatechol.
- eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
- escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
- ethnocentrically — In an ethnocentric way.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
- flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- 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
- functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.