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16-letter words containing n, o, a, h

  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spanish moroccan — of or relating to the former Spanish colony of Spanish Morocco (now part of Morocco) or its inhabitants
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • spear-head spoon — diamond-point spoon.
  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • splanchnopleural — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • 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.
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • stick at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stomach stapling — Stomach stapling is an operation in which part of the stomach is removed in order to help a person to eat less and lose weight.
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • 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.
  • surround theater — a theater, concert hall, or the like, in which seats are arranged around or on all four sides of a central stage.
  • 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 dram — Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • take one's heels — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
  • teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
  • tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
  • the annunciation — the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26–38)
  • the anthropocene — a proposed term for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards), during which humanity has begun to have a significant impact on the environment
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the cotton state — a nickname for Alabama
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the gang of four — a radical faction within the Chinese Communist Party that emerged as a political force in the spring of 1976 and was suppressed later that year. Its members, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan, and Jiang Qing, were tried and imprisoned (1981)
  • the heavens open — If the heavens open, it suddenly starts raining very heavily.
  • the here and now — the present time
  • the home nations — the countries that make up the United Kingdom: England, N. Ireland, Scotland & Wales
  • the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • the lion's share — the largest portion
  • the little woman — one's wife
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the noes have it — there is a majority of votes in the negative
  • the one and only — incomparable and unique
  • the orange order — a society founded in Ireland (1795) to uphold the Protestant religion, the Protestant dynasty, and the Protestant constitution
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the sooner state — the nickname of the US state of Oklahoma, which comes from the name of its early settlers
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