16-letter words containing c, h, o, e

honeymoon couple — a newly-married couple who are on their honeymoon
horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
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
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
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.
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.
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 course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
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.
jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
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
josephson effect — a high-speed switch, used in experimental computers, that operates on the basis of a radiative phenomenon (Jo·sephson effect) exhibited by a pair of superconductors separated by a thin insulator.
judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
jude the obscure — a novel (1895) by Thomas Hardy.
keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
kick one's heels — If you are kicking your heels, you are having to wait around with nothing to do, so that you get bored or impatient.
kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.

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