16-letter words containing n, a, h, c
- the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
- theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
- theatrical agent — an intermediary who brings together actors who are seeking work and theatre producers who are offering parts
- thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
- thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
- thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
- thioarsenic acid — any of three hypothetical acids, H3AsS4, HAsS3, and H4As2S7, known only in the forms of their salts
- three-card monte — a gambling game in which the players are shown three cards and bet that they can identify one particular card of the three, as stipulated by the dealer, after the cards have been moved around face down by the dealer.
- throat infection — an infection or inflammation of the throat or pharynx
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- to call the tune — If you say that a person or organization is calling the tune, you mean that they are in a position of power or control in a particular situation.
- to carry the can — If you have to carry the can, you have to take all the blame for something.
- to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
- to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
- tobacco hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca sexta, having a hornlike structure at its posterior end and feeding on the leaves of tobacco and other plants of the nightshade family.
- 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.
- tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
- trailing fuchsia — a shrub, Fuchsia procumbens, of the evening primrose family, native to New Zealand, having long-stalked leaves and drooping, orange-and-purple flowers, used in hanging baskets.
- trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
- trichotillomania — a compulsion to pull out one's hair.
- tristan da cunha — a group of four volcanic islands in the S Atlantic, belonging to St. Helena. 40 sq. mi. (104 sq. km).
- tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
- umbilical hernia — a hernia of the umbilicus.
- unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
- uncharacteristic — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
- underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
- uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
- unitarian church — the Protestant denomination that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity
- vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
- ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
- visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
- vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
- voluntary school — a school that promotes specific religious beliefs and which is funded by a local education authority but was not established by the authority
- ward christensen — (person) The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
- washington, d. c — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- washington, d.c. — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- watch one's step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- water chinquapin — an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.
- weighing machine — large measuring scales
- western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
- wheel animalcule — a rotifer.
- wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
- whole-tone scale — a scale progressing entirely by whole tones, as C, D, E, F♯, G♯, A♯, C.
- win the exchange — to win a rook in return for a bishop or knight
- windchill factor — an estimated measurement of the cooling effect of air and wind, esp. when applied to the loss of body heat from exposed skin; chill factor
- with a vengeance — an act or opportunity of inflicting such trouble: to take one's vengeance.
- with clean hands — innocently
- within an ace of — a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot: He dealt me four aces in the first hand.
- x-ray technician — a technician who specializes in taking and processing x-rays, especially in a hospital or clinic.