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16-letter words containing c, h, i, r, o, m

  • commissionership — The role or office of commissioner.
  • common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • community church — an independent or denominational church in a particular community.
  • copyright symbol — (character, legal)   "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
  • devonshire cream — clotted cream.
  • diacetylmorphine — heroin.
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
  • garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
  • geomorphological — Of or pertaining to geomorphology.
  • haemochromatosis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemochromatosis.
  • hard rock mining — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
  • hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
  • hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
  • hemicorporectomy — (surgery) The surgical procedure which cuts through the spine and removes the lower half of the body from the waist down.
  • hemorrhoidectomy — the surgical removal of hemorrhoids.
  • hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • heteromultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more different polypeptide chains.
  • 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
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • hispano-american — Spanish.
  • homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
  • hydrobromic acid — a colorless or faintly yellow corrosive liquid, HBr, an aqueous solution of hydrogen bromide.
  • hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
  • hypercompetitive — Extremely competitive.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • joachim of fiore — ?1132–1202 ad, Italian mystic and philosopher, best known for teaching that history can be divided into three ages, those of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
  • light microscope — microscope (def 1).
  • limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
  • limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
  • lithium chloride — a white, water-soluble, deliquescent, crystalline solid, LiCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of mineral water, especially lithia water, and as a flux in metallurgy.
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • machine operator — someone who operates mechanical equipment
  • magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • male-voice choir — a choir of male singers
  • mammographically — Using a mammograph, by means of mammograph.
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • mechanochemistry — the field of chemistry that deals with the direct conversion of chemical into mechanical energy.
  • mechanoreception — The action of a mechanoreceptor.
  • mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
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