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16-letter words containing h, o, l, c, n, e

  • open scholarship — a scholarship which anyone can apply for
  • palaeolithic man — any of various primitive types of man, such as Neanderthal man and Java man, who lived in the Palaeolithic
  • perchloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
  • phenomenological — the study of phenomena.
  • photoluminescent — luminescence induced by the absorption of infrared radiation, visible light, or ultraviolet radiation.
  • phylogenetically — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • pitch-cone angle — (in a bevel gear) the apex angle of the truncated cone (pitch cone) which forms the reference surface on which the teeth of a bevel gear are cut
  • plainclothes man — a detective or police officer who wears civilian clothes while on duty
  • poisoned chalice — If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
  • polyphonic prose — prose characterized by the use of poetic devices, as alliteration, assonance, rhyme, etc., and especially by an emphasis on rhythm not strictly metered.
  • postencephalitic — inflammation of the substance of the brain.
  • psychotechnology — the body of knowledge, theories, and techniques developed for understanding and influencing individual, group, and societal behavior in specified situations.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • rhynchocephalian — belonging or pertaining to the Rhynchocephalia, an order of lizardlike reptiles that are extinct except for the tuatara.
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • school inspector — an official whose job is to inspect schools and to report on their quality and conditions
  • schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • second childhood — senility; dotage.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • secondary school — a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.
  • shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
  • shopping complex — a shopping centre
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • splanchnopleural — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • 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.
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • stilton (cheese) — a rich, crumbly cheese with veins of blue-green mold
  • synchronous idle — (character)   (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
  • 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.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • 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 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 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
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thionyl chloride — a clear, pale yellow or red, fuming, corrosive liquid, SOCl 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • to call the tune — If you say that a person or organization is calling the tune, you mean that they are in a position of power or control in a particular situation.
  • to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
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