16-letter words containing c, h, o, l, e, d
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
- haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
- hardrock geology — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
- health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
- heralds' college — a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.
- hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
- hold one's peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- holder condition — Lipschitz condition.
- household chores — tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home
- humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
- hydroelectricity — pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity derived from the energy of falling water or any other hydraulic source.
- 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.
- hyperchlorhydria — excessive secretion of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
- 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
- luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
- medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
- mercury chloride — mercuric chloride
- methodologically — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
- moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
- off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
- old north french — the dialect of Old French spoken in northern France. Abbreviation: ONF.
- oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
- poisoned chalice — If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
- pseudohistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- rochelle powders — (not in technical use) Seidlitz powders.
- round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
- run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
- schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
- school-age child — a child who is old enough to go to school
- schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
- second childhood — senility; dotage.
- secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- secondary school — a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.
- sole stockholder — the only person who holds shares in a business
- 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.
- synchronous idle — (character) (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
- the body politic — the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state
- the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
- thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
- thionyl chloride — a clear, pale yellow or red, fuming, corrosive liquid, SOCl 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- tricolored heron — an American heron, Hydranassa tricolor, that is dark bluish-gray above and white below with seasonally red neck stripes in the male.
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.