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16-letter words containing c, h, e, r, i, n

  • prince's feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
  • prince's-feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
  • projection booth — a soundproof compartment in a theater where a motion-picture projector is housed and from which the picture is projected on the screen.
  • protestant ethic — work ethic.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • radio microphone — a microphone incorporating a radio transmitter so that the user can move around freely
  • rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
  • re-entry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
  • reaction chamber — the chamber in a rocket engine in which the reaction or combustion of fuel occurs
  • recursion theory — (theory)   The study of problems that, in principle, cannot be solved by either computers or humans.
  • recycling scheme — a scheme enabling the public to recycle waste
  • rhynchocephalian — belonging or pertaining to the Rhynchocephalia, an order of lizardlike reptiles that are extinct except for the tuatara.
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • ring the changes — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
  • saint catharines — a city in SE Ontario, in SE Canada.
  • schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
  • schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
  • school inspector — an official whose job is to inspect schools and to report on their quality and conditions
  • schreiner finish — a lustrous surface imparted to a fabric by schreinerizing.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
  • spanish-american — noting or pertaining to the parts of America where Spanish is the prevailing language.
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
  • 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.
  • steric hindrance — the prevention or retardation of inter- or intramolecular interactions as a result of the spatial structure of a molecule.
  • street christian — (especially in the 1960s) a Christian whose religious life centers more in social or communal groups than in institutional churches.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • submarine chaser — a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • synchronous idle — (character)   (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
  • synthetic rubber — any of several substances similar to natural rubber in properties and uses, produced by the polymerization of an unsaturated hydrocarbon, as butylene or isoprene, or by the copolymerization of such hydrocarbons with styrene, butadiene, or the like.
  • take a raincheck — to accept the postponement of an offer
  • teacher training — practical teaching course
  • the eternal city — Rome
  • 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 high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
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