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

  • postencephalitic — inflammation of the substance of the brain.
  • 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.
  • protestant ethic — work ethic.
  • psychoanalytical — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • psychoimmunology — the branch of medicine studying the effects of psychological phenomena on the immune system; the intersection of psychology and immunology.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • queen's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
  • recursion theory — (theory)   The study of problems that, in principle, cannot be solved by either computers or humans.
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • 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.
  • scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
  • 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
  • schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • second childhood — senility; dotage.
  • 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
  • shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
  • shopping complex — a shopping centre
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • sit on the fence — to be unable or unwilling to commit oneself
  • situation ethics — a view of ethics that deprecates general moral principles while emphasizing the source of moral judgments in the distinctive characters of specific situations.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • sonata da chiesa — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, that usually consists of four movements alternating between slow and fast.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • 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
  • speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
  • 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.
  • stick at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • stilton (cheese) — a rich, crumbly cheese with veins of blue-green mold
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stomach stapling — Stomach stapling is an operation in which part of the stomach is removed in order to help a person to eat less and lose weight.
  • 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.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
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