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.