16-letter words containing l, o, s, c, h
- health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
- hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
- heralds' college — a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.
- historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
- hold one's peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
- horticulturalist — Misspelling of horticulturist.
- hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- household chores — tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home
- hubble telescope — a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges
- hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
- hypocoristically — In a hypocoristic manner.
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
- in plain clothes — not wearing a uniform
- incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- isophthalic acid — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 8 H 6 O 2 , the meta isomer of phthalic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and plasticizers.
- kick one's heels — If you are kicking your heels, you are having to wait around with nothing to do, so that you get bored or impatient.
- kirchhoff's laws — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- lapsang souchong — a large-leafed variety of China tea with a slightly smoky flavour
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- lick one's chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- light microscope — microscope (def 1).
- lighthouse clock — an American mantel clock of the early 19th century, having the dial and works exposed beneath a glass dome on a tapered, cylindrical body.
- louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.
- malchus-porphyry — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
- marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
- medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
- methyl cellulose — a grayish-white powder prepared from cellulose that swells to a highly viscous colloidal solution in water: used as a food additive and in water paints, leather tanning, and cosmetics.
- microsporophylls — Plural form of microsporophyll.
- misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
- monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
- mos technologies — MOS Technology
- mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
- nanotechnologies — Plural form of nanotechnology.
- nanotechnologist — Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.
- nephrocalcinosis — (medicine) The deposition of calcium salts in the renal parenchyma due to hyperparathyroidism.
- nicholas of cusa — 1401–64, German cardinal, philosopher, and mathematician: anticipated Copernicus in asserting that the earth revolves around the sun
- non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- nonphysiological — of or relating to physiology.
- north charleston — a city in SE South Carolina.
- oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
- open scholarship — a scholarship which anyone can apply for
- osteoarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the study of bones found at archaeological sites
- parochial school — a primary or secondary private school supervised by a religious organization, especially a Roman Catholic day school affiliated with a parish or a holy order.
- pascal's theorem — the theorem that the lines joining adjacent vertices of a hexagon intersect the same straight line if alternate vertices lie on two intersecting straight lines.
- pavillon chinois — crescent (def 6).
- people's charter — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.