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16-letter words containing c, h, a, t

  • 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.
  • combination shot — a shot in pool in which the cue ball strikes at least one object ball before contact is made with the ball to be pocketed.
  • 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
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
  • concertina crash — a collision in which vehicle after vehicle hits the one ahead in a sequence of events triggered by the first car crash
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • contour feathers — feathers that form the surface plumage of a bird and determine the outer contour, including the wing and tail feathers
  • convector heater — A convector heater is a heater that heats a room by means of hot air.
  • cornhusker state — Nebraska (used as a nickname).
  • cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
  • counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
  • covariant theory — the principle that physical laws have the same form and interrelations in any system of coordinates in which they are expressed.
  • cowichan sweater — a heavy sweater of grey, unbleached wool with distinctive designs that were originally black-and-white but are now sometimes coloured: knitted originally by Cowichan Indians in British Columbia
  • craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
  • crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
  • curtain-twitcher — a person who likes to watch unobserved what other people are doing
  • cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
  • cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin
  • cut to the chase — If someone cuts to the chase, they start talking about or dealing with what is important, instead of less important things.
  • cut-throat razor — a razor with a long blade that usually folds into the handle
  • cyclohexamantane — (chemistry) A certain diamondoid, C26H30.
  • cytoarchitecture — (biology) The arrangement of cells in an organism or organ.
  • cytotrophoblasts — Plural form of cytotrophoblast.
  • database machine — (hardware)   A computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel. This contrasts with a database server, which is a computer in a local area network that holds a database. The database machine is tightly coupled to the main CPU, whereas the database server is loosely coupled via the network.
  • dealcoholization — to remove some or all of the alcohol from (a drink).
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
  • dehumidification — Dehumidification is the removal of vapor from a gas-vapor mixture.
  • dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
  • dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
  • diacetylmorphine — heroin.
  • diamondback moth — a small moth Plutella xylostella that has diamond-shaped markings on the underside of its front wings that are visible when the wings are folded
  • diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
  • digital research — (company)   The company which developed CP/M, the operating system used on many of the first generation 8-bit microprocessor-based personal computers. Digital Research also produced DR-DOS. Address: Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
  • dihydroxyacetone — (organic compound) The compound CO(CH2OH)2 that has a number of industrial uses.
  • 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
  • director's chair — a lightweight folding armchair with transversely crossed legs and having a canvas seat and back panel, as traditionally used by motion-picture directors.
  • disfranchisement — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
  • district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
  • do the necessary — to do something that is necessary in a particular situation
  • dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
  • draught excluder — a device (such as a strip of wood, or a long cylindrical cushion) placed at the bottom of a door to keep out draughts
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