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

  • st. clair shores — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • 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.
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
  • stilton (cheese) — a rich, crumbly cheese with veins of blue-green mold
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stretch receptor — muscle spindle.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
  • teachers college — a four-year college offering courses for the training of primary and secondary school teachers and granting the bachelor's degree and often advanced degrees.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • telescopic sight — a telescope mounted on a rifle, etc, used for sighting
  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
  • tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • thatched cottage — a cottage that has a roof that is thatched with straw, reed etc
  • the annunciation — the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26–38)
  • 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 black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the body politic — the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state
  • the common touch — If you say that someone has the common touch, you mean that they have the natural ability to have a good relationship with ordinary people and be popular with them.
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the constitution — the document containing the fundamental laws of the United States: it consists of the seven original articles, adopted in 1789, and twenty-seven amendments
  • the cotton state — a nickname for Alabama
  • the creole state — a nickname for Louisiana
  • the cuckoo's egg — A great book (and subsequent BBC TV series) telling the true story of Clifford Stoll, an astronomy professor at UCB's Lawrence Berkeley Lab. A 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorised user (a cracker) on his system. The cracker, code named "Hunter", was breaking into US computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Hunter was part of a spy ring paid in cash and cocaine, and reporting to the KGB.
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the leonine city — a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber fortified by Pope Leo IV
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
  • the open college — (in Britain) a college of art founded in 1987 for mature students studying foundation courses in arts and crafts by television programmes, written materials, and tutorials
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
  • the scotch-irish — people of Scotch-Irish descent
  • the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
  • the second house — the second daily performance of a play or show
  • the state sector — the part of the economy that is controlled by the state
  • the subconscious — subconscious mental activity
  • the two sicilies — a former kingdom of S Italy, consisting of the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples (1061–1860)
  • the union school — a historic building located at 516-518 Bethlehem Pike in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Built in 1773, the Union School was one of the earliest public schools in Pennsylvania, and the first that did not discriminate based on social position or religious preference
  • the welsh office — (formerly) a department of the British government with responsibility for Welsh policies. It was replaced by the Wales office in 1999.
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • the-constitution — an American 44-gun frigate, famous for its exploits in the War of 1812 and popularly called “Old Ironsides.”.
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