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

  • pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
  • prairie schooner — a type of covered wagon, similar to but smaller than the Conestoga wagon, used by pioneers in crossing the prairies and plains of North America.
  • prison psychosis — a state of mental confusion, transitory or permanent, brought on by incarceration or by the anticipation of imprisonment.
  • prognostic chart — a chart showing the predicted state of the atmosphere for a given time in the future.
  • projection booth — a soundproof compartment in a theater where a motion-picture projector is housed and from which the picture is projected on the screen.
  • protestant ethic — work ethic.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • radio microphone — a microphone incorporating a radio transmitter so that the user can move around freely
  • rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
  • reaction chamber — the chamber in a rocket engine in which the reaction or combustion of fuel occurs
  • recursion theory — (theory)   The study of problems that, in principle, cannot be solved by either computers or humans.
  • rhynchocephalian — belonging or pertaining to the Rhynchocephalia, an order of lizardlike reptiles that are extinct except for the tuatara.
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • roundabout chair — corner chair.
  • saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
  • savonarola chair — a chair of the Renaissance having a number of transverse pairs of curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • 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
  • school librarian — a librarian who works in or is in charge of a school library
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • south carolinian — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 31,055 sq. mi. (80,430 sq. km). Capital: Columbia. Abbreviation: SC (for use with zip code), S.C.
  • spanish moroccan — of or relating to the former Spanish colony of Spanish Morocco (now part of Morocco) or its inhabitants
  • 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.
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • 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 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 resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thioarsenic acid — any of three hypothetical acids, H3AsS4, HAsS3, and H4As2S7, known only in the forms of their salts
  • thionyl chloride — a clear, pale yellow or red, fuming, corrosive liquid, SOCl 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • thirteenth chord — a chord much used in jazz and pop, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth above the root
  • throat infection — an infection or inflammation of the throat or pharynx
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
  • topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
  • tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
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