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16-letter words containing h, o, t, e, l, r

  • 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
  • schoolteacherish — showing characteristics thought to be typical of a schoolteacher, as strictness and primness.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
  • shoulder holster — a holster that is worn on the shoulder
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • sole stockholder — the only person who holds shares in a business
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • st. clair shores — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • 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.
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • sulphur trioxide — a white corrosive substance existing in three crystalline forms of which the stable (alpha-) form is usually obtained as silky needles. It is produced by the oxidation of sulphur dioxide, and is used in the sulphonation of organic compounds. Formula: SO3
  • take holy orders — to become ordained
  • take the trouble — If you take the trouble to do something, you do something which requires a small amount of additional effort.
  • teachers college — a four-year college offering courses for the training of primary and secondary school teachers and granting the bachelor's degree and often advanced degrees.
  • telephone number — digits dialled to reach sb by phone
  • tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
  • tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the creole state — a nickname for Louisiana
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the gospel truth — the unquestionable truth
  • the hill of tara — the historic seat of the ancient Irish kings, in Co Meath near Dublin
  • the hitler youth — a Nazi paramilitary youth organization (1922-45)
  • the holy trinity — God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit
  • the lion's share — the largest portion
  • the little karoo — a high arid plateau in South Africa
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
  • the story of mel — The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • the worried well — people who are healthy but are concerned about becoming ill and so take medication or see a medical practitioner when they don't need to
  • the yellow press — (formerly) popular newspapers publishing sensational stories
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
  • thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • 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.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • thionyl chloride — a clear, pale yellow or red, fuming, corrosive liquid, SOCl 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
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