16-letter words containing e, t, c, h, i
- the leonine city — a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber fortified by Pope Leo IV
- the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
- the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
- the public purse — money from or controlled by the government
- the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
- the scotch-irish — people of Scotch-Irish descent
- the subconscious — subconscious mental activity
- the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
- 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-constitution — an American 44-gun frigate, famous for its exploits in the War of 1812 and popularly called “Old Ironsides.”.
- theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
- theatrical agent — an intermediary who brings together actors who are seeking work and theatre producers who are offering parts
- thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
- thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
- thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
- thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thick as thieves — very close friends
- thick-tailed ray — Ichthyology. any ray of the order Rajiformes, having a relatively thick, fleshy tail, including the guitarfishes and the skates.
- thieves' kitchen — a thieves' hideout
- thioarsenic acid — any of three hypothetical acids, H3AsS4, HAsS3, and H4As2S7, known only in the forms of their salts
- thionyl chloride — a clear, pale yellow or red, fuming, corrosive liquid, SOCl 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- thirteenth chord — a chord much used in jazz and pop, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth above the root
- three blind mice — nursery rhyme
- three-card trick — a game in which players bet on which of three inverted playing cards is the queen
- three-piece suit — men's formal outfit
- throat infection — an infection or inflammation of the throat or pharynx
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- to break the ice — If you break the ice at a party or meeting, or in a new situation, you say or do something to make people feel relaxed and comfortable.
- to clear the air — If you do something to clear the air, you do it in order to resolve any problems or disagreements that there might be.
- to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
- 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.
- tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
- trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
- tricolored heron — an American heron, Hydranassa tricolor, that is dark bluish-gray above and white below with seasonally red neck stripes in the male.
- trimethylglycine — betaine.
- tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
- turkish crescent — crescent (def 6).
- uncharacteristic — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
- underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
- ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
- vestibule school — a school in an industrial establishment where new employees are given specific training in the jobs they are to perform.
- visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
- vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
- ward christensen — (person) The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
- watch this space — Journalists write 'Watch this space' in order to indicate in an informal way that they will be giving more information about something in the future.
- water chinquapin — an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.