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18-letter words containing l, e, t, c, h

  • potassium chloride — a white or colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, KCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers and mineral water, and as a source of other potassium compounds.
  • preparatory school — a private or parochial secondary school, especially one boarding its students and providing a college-preparatory education.
  • psychogalvanometer — a type of galvanometer for detecting and measuring psychogalvanic currents.
  • psychotechnologist — a specialist in psychotechnology
  • pulp canal therapy — endodontics.
  • put the clock back — to regress
  • quasi-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • red-light district — an area or district in a city in which many houses of prostitution are located.
  • repayment schedule — a document detailing the specific terms of a borrower's loan, such as monthly payment, interest rate, due dates etc
  • residential school — (in Canada) a boarding school maintained by the Canadian government for Indian and Inuit children from sparsely populated settlements
  • root canal therapy — endodontics.
  • rotary clothesline — an apparatus of radiating spokes that support lines on which clothes are hung to dry
  • rubbish collection — the collection of domestic refuse for disposal
  • salem witch trials — 17th-century witchcraft case
  • schleswig-holstein — two contiguous duchies of Denmark that were a center of international tension in the 19th century: Prussia annexed Schleswig 1864 and Holstein 1866.
  • school certificate — (in England and Wales between 1917 and 1951 and currently in New Zealand) a certificate awarded to school pupils who pass a public examination: the equivalent of GCSE
  • schwarz inequality — Also called Cauchy's inequality. the theorem that the inner product of two vectors is less than or equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors.
  • scottish blackface — a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland
  • seagate technology — (company)   A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. They changed the name to Seagate Technology soon after to avoid confusion, and also to avoid friction with Xerox, which had since purchased Alan's earlier company, Shugart Associates. Address: 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, USA. Fax: +1 (408) 438 3320.
  • second only to sth — If you say that something is second only to something else, you mean that only that thing is better or greater than it.
  • shugart technology — Seagate Technology
  • sixth-form college — (in England and Wales) a college offering A-level and other courses to pupils over sixteen from local schools, esp from those that do not have sixth forms
  • sling psychrometer — a psychrometer so designed that the wet-bulb thermometer can be ventilated, to expedite evaporation, by whirling in the air.
  • sociotechnological — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and technological factors.
  • soft touch sealing — Soft touch sealing is a copolymer seal for a tank, with characteristics designed for softness, used instead of a metal seal to help avoid fire when sparks are generated.
  • specialist teacher — a teacher with expertise in working with children with special educational needs, such as dyslexia
  • spectroheliography — the process of obtaining an image of the sun in light of a particular wavelength, such as calcium or hydrogen, showing the distribution of the element over the surface and in the solar atmosphere, using a spectroheliograph
  • spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
  • spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • spotted flycatcher — a European woodland songbird, Muscicapa striata, with a greyish-brown streaked plumage: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
  • stem-cell research — research that is carried out on stem cells for use in medicine
  • stinking chamomile — mayweed.
  • stockholm syndrome — an emotional attachment to a captor formed by a hostage as a result of continuous stress, dependence, and a need to cooperate for survival.
  • stoichiometrically — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • stokely carmichael — Hoagland Howard [hohg-luh nd] /ˈhoʊg lənd/ (Show IPA), ("Hoagy") 1899–1981, U.S. songwriter and musician.
  • store launch event — A store launch event is a special event, which publicizes the opening of a new store and at which discounts and free samples may be offered.
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • stretch one's legs — either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
  • study hall teacher — a teacher who supervises or helps students during a period of time or lesson used for studying
  • teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
  • technical knockout — the termination of a bout by the referee when it is the judgment of the attending physician, a boxer's seconds, or the referee that a boxer cannot continue fighting without sustaining severe or disabling injury. Abbreviation: TKO, T.K.O.
  • technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
  • technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
  • telephone exchange — a telecommunications facility to which subscribers' telephones connect, that switches calls among subscribers or to other exchanges for further routing.
  • telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
  • tetrachloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
  • the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the class struggle — the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power
  • the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
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