16-letter words containing c, h, e, m, s
- coping mechanism — something a person does to deal with a difficult situation
- crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
- cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
- 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.
- devonshire cream — clotted cream.
- dialysis machine — device: kidney treatment
- direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
- discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
- disfranchisement — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
- dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
- drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
- duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
- electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
- electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- escape mechanism — way of avoiding reality
- extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
- farmhouse cheese — cheese that is made by traditional methods, on or as if on a farm
- father christmas — Santa Claus.
- french cameroons — Cameroun (def 2).
- haemochromatosis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemochromatosis.
- hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
- hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- heterochromosome — sex chromosome.
- high-compression — of a modern type of internal-combustion engine designed so that the fuel mixture is compressed into a smaller cylinder space, resulting in more pressure on the pistons and more power
- higher criticism — the study of the Bible having as its object the establishment of such facts as authorship and date of composition, as well as determination of a basis for exegesis.
- himachal pradesh — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
- hispano-american — Spanish.
- house of commons — the elective, lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, and various other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations.
- hyperinsulinemic — Suffering from or characterized by hyperinsulinemia, an excessively high level of insulin in the blood.
- hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hypophysectomies — Plural form of hypophysectomy.
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- incentive scheme — an arrangement under which additional payments are made to employees as a means of increasing production
- incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- insurance scheme — a scheme that provides insurance
- interhemispheric — of, relating to, or between hemispheres, as of the earth: interhemispheric cooperation.
- jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
- jerusalem cherry — an Old World plant, Solanum pseudocapsicum, of the nightshade family, having white flowers and bearing cherrylike scarlet or yellow fruits, cultivated as an ornamental.
- keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- light microscope — microscope (def 1).
- lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
- lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.