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16-letter words containing i, n, o, e, s, h

  • speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
  • 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.
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • stilton (cheese) — a rich, crumbly cheese with veins of blue-green mold
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • summation method — a method for associating a sum with a divergent series.
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • synchronous idle — (character)   (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
  • the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
  • the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
  • the constitution — the document containing the fundamental laws of the United States: it consists of the seven original articles, adopted in 1789, and twenty-seven amendments
  • the home nations — the countries that make up the United Kingdom: England, N. Ireland, Scotland & Wales
  • the lion's share — the largest portion
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
  • the noes have it — there is a majority of votes in the negative
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the south island — the largest island of New Zealand, separated from the North Island by the Cook Strait. Pop: 1 048 200 (2013 est). Area: 153 947 sq km (59 439 sq miles)
  • the subconscious — subconscious mental activity
  • 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
  • the-constitution — an American 44-gun frigate, famous for its exploits in the War of 1812 and popularly called “Old Ironsides.”.
  • thermoanesthesia — thermanesthesia.
  • thioarsenic acid — any of three hypothetical acids, H3AsS4, HAsS3, and H4As2S7, known only in the forms of their salts
  • this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
  • to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
  • topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
  • transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
  • unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
  • uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
  • union membership — members of a trade union
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • washington state — the state of Washington, especially as distinguished from Washington, D.C.
  • when it comes to — with regard to
  • white rhinoceros — an African rhinoceros, Diceros simus, having two horns on the nose
  • white sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
  • wild honeysuckle — pinxter flower.
  • windowpane shell — capiz.
  • without question — If you do something without question, you do it without arguing or asking why it is necessary.
  • woody nightshade — bittersweet (def 3).
  • zenith telescope — a telescope mounted to point only at the zenith, used at some observatories for measuring time by the stars.
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