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16-letter words containing c, h, a, f, e

  • taft-hartley act — an act of the U.S. Congress (1947) that supersedes but continues most of the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act and that, in addition, provides for an eighty-day injunction against strikes that endanger public health and safety and bans closed shops, featherbedding, secondary boycotts, jurisdictional strikes, and certain other union practices.
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • the gentle craft — fishing
  • theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
  • throat infection — an infection or inflammation of the throat or pharynx
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
  • way of the cross — stations of the cross.
  • weather forecast — meteorological prediction
  • within an ace of — a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot: He dealt me four aces in the first hand.
  • zone of leaching — A horizon.
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