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16-letter words containing n, o, e, l, c

  • solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
  • sonoluminescence — the emission of a flash of light accompanying the bursting of a bubble in a liquid when sound waves are passed through the liquid.
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • 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.
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • stamp collection — the act of collecting postage stamps as a hobby
  • 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.
  • state-controlled — controlled by the government
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • stilton (cheese) — a rich, crumbly cheese with veins of blue-green mold
  • stock controller — someone employed to monitor and manage goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available all the time
  • stone-cold sober — If someone is stone-cold sober, they are not drunk at all.
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • superciliousness — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
  • sutton coldfield — a town in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, West Midlands; a residential suburb of Birmingham. Pop: 105 452 (2001)
  • synchronous idle — (character)   (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
  • take one's place — to take up one's usual or specified position
  • 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
  • telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • teleconferencing — a business meeting, educational session, etc., conducted among participants in different locations via telecommunications equipment. Compare videoconference.
  • tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the leonine city — a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber fortified by Pope Leo IV
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the open college — (in Britain) a college of art founded in 1987 for mature students studying foundation courses in arts and crafts by television programmes, written materials, and tutorials
  • the union school — a historic building located at 516-518 Bethlehem Pike in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Built in 1773, the Union School was one of the earliest public schools in Pennsylvania, and the first that did not discriminate based on social position or religious preference
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thionyl chloride — a clear, pale yellow or red, fuming, corrosive liquid, SOCl 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • 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 change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
  • topical-sentence — a sentence that expresses the essential idea of a paragraph or larger section, usually appearing at the beginning.
  • 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.
  • tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
  • tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
  • trail one's coat — to invite a quarrel by deliberately provocative behaviour
  • training college — a school providing training for a special field or profession.
  • transcontinental — passing or extending across a continent: a transcontinental railroad.
  • transport police — the national police force for railways in Britain, which protects rail operators, staff and passengers
  • transverse colon — the middle portion of the colon, lying across the upper abdominal cavity between the ascending colon on the right and the descending colon on the left.
  • travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
  • trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
  • tricolored heron — an American heron, Hydranassa tricolor, that is dark bluish-gray above and white below with seasonally red neck stripes in the male.
  • trinitroglycerin — nitroglycerin.
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