16-letter words containing c, o, a, t, i, s
- electrical storm — thunder, lightning
- electroacoustics — a branch of acoustics that deals with the conversion of sound into electricity and vice versa, as in a microphone or a speaker
- electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
- electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
- electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
- electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
- electronic flash — Photography
- electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
- emancipationists — Plural form of emancipationist.
- enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
- endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
- endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
- eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
- exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
- exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
- exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
- exotic shorthair — a short-haired variety of domestic cat with a stocky body, developed through crossing Persian cats with American shorthairs
- extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
- falsificationism — (epistemology) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
- feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
- fictionalisation — Alternative spelling of fictionalization.
- fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
- francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
- free association — the uncensored expression of the ideas, impressions, etc., passing through the mind of the analysand, a technique used to facilitate access to the unconscious.
- functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
- gram atomic mass — the quantity of an element whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the atomic weight of the element.
- graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics) (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
- haemochromatosis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemochromatosis.
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- head post office — the main post office in a town
- health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
- health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
- hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
- horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
- horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
- horticulturalist — Misspelling of horticulturist.
- hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- hydrostatic head — The hydrostatic head is the vertical height of a column of fluid.
- hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
- hypocoristically — In a hypocoristic manner.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- hypostatic union — (In Cristianity) Christ's condition of being, at the same time, both human and divine
- iconoclastically — In an iconoclastic way.
- icositetrahedron — a solid figure having 24 faces.