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16-letter words containing c, h, e

  • hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
  • hot-cathode tube — thermionic tube.
  • 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.
  • household chores — tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home
  • hubble telescope — a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges
  • huckleberry finn — (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) a novel (1884) by Mark Twain.
  • huevos rancheros — a Latin American dish of eggs, usually fried or poached, topped with a spicy tomato sauce and sometimes served on a fried corn tortilla with the addition of vegetables and cheese.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
  • huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • hurricane season — annual cyclone period
  • huygens eyepiece — an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses, the plane sides of which both face the eye.
  • hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
  • hydroelectricity — pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity derived from the energy of falling water or any other hydraulic source.
  • hydroferricyanic — (chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen.
  • hydrogen cyanide — a colorless poisonous gas, HCN, having a bitter almondlike odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.
  • hydrologic cycle — the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
  • hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
  • hydrostatic head — The hydrostatic head is the vertical height of a column of fluid.
  • hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
  • hyper-excitement — an excited state or condition.
  • hyperaccumulator — a plant that absorbs toxins, such as heavy metals, to a greater concentration than that in the soil in which it is growing
  • hyperchlorhydria — excessive secretion of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
  • hypercompetitive — Extremely competitive.
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hypercorrections — Plural form of hypercorrection.
  • hypercorrectness — The state or condition of being hypercorrect.
  • 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.
  • hypersusceptible — hypersensitive (def 2).
  • hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
  • hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
  • hypophysectomies — Plural form of hypophysectomy.
  • icositetrahedron — a solid figure having 24 faces.
  • immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
  • immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
  • in plain clothes — not wearing a uniform
  • in the ascendant — If someone or something is in the ascendant, they have or are getting more power, influence, or popularity than other people or things.
  • in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
  • 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.
  • indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
  • infernal machine — a concealed or disguised explosive device intended to destroy life or property.
  • insurance scheme — a scheme that provides insurance
  • interhemispheric — of, relating to, or between hemispheres, as of the earth: interhemispheric cooperation.
  • j. random hacker — (jargon)   /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL.
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