16-letter words containing l, o, s, c, h
- close by/at hand — Something that is close by or close at hand is near to you.
- cobweb houseleek — a small southern European plant, Sempervivum arachoideum, of the stonecrop family, having a dense, globular cluster of cobwebby leaves and red flowers on hairy stalks.
- cochineal cactus — a treelike cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera, of Mexico and Central America, that is a principal source of food of the cochineal insect.
- cochineal insect — a Mexican homopterous insect, Dactylopius coccus, that feeds on cacti
- colonial heights — a town in central Virginia.
- columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- community school — a school offering some nonacademic activities related to life in a particular community and often serving as a community centre
- composite school — a secondary school offering both academic and nonacademic courses
- consulting hours — the hours during which health practitioners are available for consultation
- cook-chill foods — foods which are chilled rapidly and reheated as required
- cool one's heels — to wait or be kept waiting
- copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
- cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
- cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
- cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
- cystourethrocele — A urethrocele occurring with a cystocele.
- cytotechnologist — a technician who specializes in identifying cells and cellular abnormalities.
- cytotrophoblasts — Plural form of cytotrophoblast.
- dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
- depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
- direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
- discographically — In terms of discography.
- dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
- duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
- 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.
- episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
- eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
- escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
- ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
- extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
- false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
- fielder's choice — a fielder's attempt to put out a base runner rather than the batter when a play at first base would put out the batter.
- finishing school — a private school, usually at the high-school or junior-college level, that teaches young women social graces and prepares them for life in society.
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
- frankfurt school — a school of thought, founded at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others, derived from Marxist, Freudian, and Hegelian theory
- french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
- geochronologists — Plural form of geochronologist.
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health