16-letter words containing c, o, s, t, h
- through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
- to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
- to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
- to cut both ways — If you say that something cuts both ways, you mean that it can have two opposite effects, or can have both good and bad effects.
- to pass the buck — If you pass the buck, you refuse to accept responsibility for something, and say that someone else is responsible.
- to set the scene — If someone sets the scene or sets the stage for an event to take place, they make preparations so that it can take place.
- tollhouse cookie — a crisp cookie containing bits of chocolate and sometimes chopped nuts.
- 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.
- touch of the sun — slight sunstroke
- troop the colors — to parade the colors, or flag, before troops
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- vestibule school — a school in an industrial establishment where new employees are given specific training in the jobs they are to perform.
- voluntary school — a school that promotes specific religious beliefs and which is funded by a local education authority but was not established by the authority
- walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
- washington, d. c — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- washington, d.c. — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- watch one's step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- way of the cross — stations of the cross.
- weather forecast — meteorological prediction
- when it comes to — with regard to
- white rhinoceros — an African rhinoceros, Diceros simus, having two horns on the nose
- whole-tone scale — a scale progressing entirely by whole tones, as C, D, E, F♯, G♯, A♯, C.
- without recourse — a qualified endorsement on such a negotiable instrument, by which the endorser protects himself or herself from liability to subsequent holders
- yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them
- zenith telescope — a telescope mounted to point only at the zenith, used at some observatories for measuring time by the stars.