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16-letter words containing c, h, a, n, e, l

  • place in the sun — (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
  • plainclothes man — a detective or police officer who wears civilian clothes while on duty
  • pleased as punch — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
  • poisoned chalice — If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
  • postencephalitic — inflammation of the substance of the brain.
  • rhynchocephalian — belonging or pertaining to the Rhynchocephalia, an order of lizardlike reptiles that are extinct except for the tuatara.
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • saddle stitching — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
  • schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • secondary school — a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.
  • secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
  • self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
  • shipping channel — a navigational pathway that a ship uses to travel from one place to another
  • shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
  • shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
  • special handling — (in the U.S. Postal Service) the handling of third- and fourth-class mail as first-class upon the payment of a fee.
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • splanchnopleural — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
  • stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the eternal city — Rome
  • the gentle craft — fishing
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • theatrical agent — an intermediary who brings together actors who are seeking work and theatre producers who are offering parts
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
  • to call the tune — If you say that a person or organization is calling the tune, you mean that they are in a position of power or control in a particular situation.
  • to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
  • topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
  • tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
  • trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
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