16-letter words containing f, e, t, c, h, a
- right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- safety mechanism — a psychological or physiological response in an individual that protects the individual from harm
- schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
- self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
- silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
- slap in the face — smack on the cheek
- taft-hartley act — an act of the U.S. Congress (1947) that supersedes but continues most of the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act and that, in addition, provides for an eighty-day injunction against strikes that endanger public health and safety and bans closed shops, featherbedding, secondary boycotts, jurisdictional strikes, and certain other union practices.
- the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
- the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
- the gentle craft — fishing
- theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
- throat infection — an infection or inflammation of the throat or pharynx
- 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.
- way of the cross — stations of the cross.
- weather forecast — meteorological prediction
- within an ace of — a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot: He dealt me four aces in the first hand.