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16-letter words containing g, r, i, t, c, h

  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
  • teacher training — practical teaching course
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • 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.
  • trailing fuchsia — a shrub, Fuchsia procumbens, of the evening primrose family, native to New Zealand, having long-stalked leaves and drooping, orange-and-purple flowers, used in hanging baskets.
  • trick photograph — a photograph that creates an illusion
  • trimethylglycine — betaine.
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
  • yachting regatta — a sailing competition
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