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16-letter words containing c, h, u, t, e

  • cholera infantum — an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • church expectant — the church living in its earthly struggles and in anticipation of God's ultimate victory at the Final Judgment.
  • circuit switched — circuit switching
  • cluster headache — a type of recurrent headache characterized by sudden onset and intense pain on one side of the face near the eye
  • cochineal cactus — a treelike cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera, of Mexico and Central America, that is a principal source of food of the cochineal insect.
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • continuous hinge — a long narrow hinge that runs the full length of the two surfaces to which its leaves are joined.
  • contour feathers — feathers that form the surface plumage of a bird and determine the outer contour, including the wing and tail feathers
  • cornhusker state — Nebraska (used as a nickname).
  • counter-checking — a check that opposes or restrains.
  • counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
  • crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
  • cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
  • curtain-twitcher — a person who likes to watch unobserved what other people are doing
  • cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
  • cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin
  • cut to the chase — If someone cuts to the chase, they start talking about or dealing with what is important, instead of less important things.
  • cut to the quick — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
  • cut-up technique — a technique of writing involving cutting up lines or pages of prose and rearranging these fragments, popularized by the novelist William Burroughs (1914–97)
  • cystourethrocele — A urethrocele occurring with a cystocele.
  • cytoarchitecture — (biology) The arrangement of cells in an organism or organ.
  • dehumidification — Dehumidification is the removal of vapor from a gas-vapor mixture.
  • delphi technique — a forecasting or decision-making technique that makes use of written questionnaires to eliminate the influence of personal relationships and the domination of committees by strong personalities
  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • draught excluder — a device (such as a strip of wood, or a long cylindrical cushion) placed at the bottom of a door to keep out draughts
  • drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
  • dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • easter sepulcher — sepulcher (def 2).
  • easter-sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
  • electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
  • enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
  • escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
  • ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
  • exchange student — sb who studies abroad
  • federated church — a church whose membership includes two or more congregations of different denominational affiliation.
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • 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.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
  • health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
  • health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
  • health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
  • heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
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