16-letter words containing h, e, t, r, o, s
- chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
- concertina crash — a collision in which vehicle after vehicle hits the one ahead in a sequence of events triggered by the first car crash
- considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
- contour feathers — feathers that form the surface plumage of a bird and determine the outer contour, including the wing and tail feathers
- cornhusker state — Nebraska (used as a nickname).
- cowichan sweater — a heavy sweater of grey, unbleached wool with distinctive designs that were originally black-and-white but are now sometimes coloured: knitted originally by Cowichan Indians in British Columbia
- craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
- creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
- cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin
- cystourethrocele — A urethrocele occurring with a cystocele.
- data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
- dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
- dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
- devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
- diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
- direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
- director's chair — a lightweight folding armchair with transversely crossed legs and having a canvas seat and back panel, as traditionally used by motion-picture directors.
- discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
- do sth in person — If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
- do the necessary — to do something that is necessary in a particular situation
- eastern orthodox — of or relating to the Orthodox Church.
- electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
- electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electronic flash — Photography
- electrosynthesis — synthesis produced by means of an electric current
- electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
- erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- exotic shorthair — a short-haired variety of domestic cat with a stocky body, developed through crossing Persian cats with American shorthairs
- extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
- father confessor — confessor (def 2).
- father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
- fermat's theorem — the theorem that an integer raised to a prime power leaves the same remainder as the integer itself when divided by the prime.
- ferrous sulphate — an iron salt with a saline taste, usually obtained as greenish crystals of the heptahydrate, which are converted to the white monohydrate above 100°C: used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia. Formula: FeSO4
- finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
- fisherman's knot — a knot for joining two ropes of equal thickness consisting of an overhand knot or double overhand knot by each rope round the other, so that the two knots jam when pulled tight
- flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
- forefathers' day — the anniversary of the day (December 21, 1620, in Old Style December 11) on which the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Mass. Owing to an error in changing the date from the Old Style to the New, it is generally observed on December 22.
- fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
- fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
- from one's heart — very sincerely or deeply
- furniture polish — product: shines wood
- gastroesophageal — Of or relating to the stomach and to the esophagus.
- general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
- geochronologists — Plural form of geochronologist.