16-letter words containing c, h, a, t, r
- trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
- trichotillomania — a compulsion to pull out one's hair.
- trick photograph — a photograph that creates an illusion
- tristan da cunha — a group of four volcanic islands in the S Atlantic, belonging to St. Helena. 40 sq. mi. (104 sq. km).
- tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
- 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.
- uncharacteristic — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
- underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
- unitarian church — the Protestant denomination that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity
- valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
- ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
- visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
- vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
- voluntary school — a school that promotes specific religious beliefs and which is funded by a local education authority but was not established by the authority
- walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
- ward christensen — (person) The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
- water chinquapin — an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.
- way of the cross — stations of the cross.
- weather forecast — meteorological prediction
- western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
- windchill factor — an estimated measurement of the cooling effect of air and wind, esp. when applied to the loss of body heat from exposed skin; chill factor
- x-ray technician — a technician who specializes in taking and processing x-rays, especially in a hospital or clinic.
- yachting regatta — a sailing competition
- yet another yacc — (tool) (Yay) An extension of Yacc with LALR2 parsing. Yay is available from Bull as part of the University of Waterloo Tools package maintained by <[email protected]>.