16-letter words containing c, h, r, o, n, p
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- rhynchocephalian — belonging or pertaining to the Rhynchocephalia, an order of lizardlike reptiles that are extinct except for the tuatara.
- 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
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
- spanish moroccan — of or relating to the former Spanish colony of Spanish Morocco (now part of Morocco) or its inhabitants
- 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.
- tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
- the anthropocene — a proposed term for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards), during which humanity has begun to have a significant impact on the environment
- the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
- 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.
- uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
- ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium