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

  • pseudohistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • put to the torch — to set fire to; burn down
  • recursion theory — (theory)   The study of problems that, in principle, cannot be solved by either computers or humans.
  • refresher course — a study course serving as a review of previous education.
  • riau archipelago — a group of islands belonging to Indonesia, off the SE coast of the Malay Peninsula, at the entrance to the Strait of Malacca. 36,510 sq. mi. (94,561 sq. km).
  • right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • round the corner — close at hand
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shared resources — the sharing of peripherals among several terminals
  • show cause order — a court order issued to a party in a lawsuit, directing that party to appear to give reasons why a certain action should not be put into effect by the court.
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • splanchnopleural — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • sulu archipelago — an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Jolo.
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • synchronous idle — (character)   (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
  • 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 preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
  • the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
  • 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.
  • uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
  • wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
  • without ceremony — in a casual or informal manner
  • without recourse — a qualified endorsement on such a negotiable instrument, by which the endorser protects himself or herself from liability to subsequent holders
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