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

  • 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
  • schoolteacherish — showing characteristics thought to be typical of a schoolteacher, as strictness and primness.
  • schweizerdeutsch — Schwyzertütsch.
  • scottish borders — a council area in SE Scotland, on the English border: created in 1996, it has the same boundaries as the former Borders Region: it is mainly hilly, with agriculture (esp sheep farming) the chief economic activity. Administrative centre: Newtown St Boswells. Pop: 108 280 (2003 est). Area: 4734 sq km (1827 sq miles)
  • scottish terrier — one of a Scottish breed of small terriers having short legs and a wiry, steel-gray, brindled, black, sandy, or wheaten coat.
  • seleucia trachea — an ancient city in SE Asia Minor, on the River Calycadnus (modern Goksu Nehri): captured by the Turks in the 13th century; site of present-day Silifke (Turkey)
  • shag pile carpet — a large piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor
  • shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • spectrochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical analysis of substances by means of the spectra of light they absorb or emit.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • speech therapist — sb who treats speaking disorders
  • spreader-ditcher — a machine for shaping and cleaning roadbeds and ditches and for freeing tracks of ice and snow by plowing and digging.
  • st. clair shores — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • st. lucie cherry — mahaleb.
  • 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.
  • static character — a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.
  • static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
  • 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
  • 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 christ child — a very reverential way of referring to Jesus Christ as a child, used particularly when referring to art
  • 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 first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • 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
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the public purse — money from or controlled by the government
  • the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
  • the scotch-irish — people of Scotch-Irish descent
  • the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
  • theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
  • theatrical agent — an intermediary who brings together actors who are seeking work and theatre producers who are offering parts
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
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