20-letter words containing c, h, i, p, a, n
- special relationship — the exceptionally close political, diplomatic, cultural and historical relations between the United States and the United Kingdom
- spherical aberration — variation in focal length of a lens or mirror from center to edge, due to its spherical shape.
- spherical coordinate — Usually, spherical coordinates. any of three coordinates used to locate a point in space by the length of its radius vector and the angles this vector makes with two perpendicular polar planes.
- splice the mainbrace — to issue and partake of an extra allocation of alcoholic spirits
- step into the breach — If you step into the breach, you do a job or task which someone else was supposed to do or has done in the past, because they are suddenly unable to do it.
- therapeutic abortion — abortion performed when a woman's pregnancy endangers her health.
- transposition cipher — a cipher that rearranges the letters of the plain text in a different sequence.
- visually handicapped — unable to carry out normal activities because of defects of vision, including blindness
- wipe the slate clean — begin afresh
- with a pinch of salt — without wholly believing; sceptically