16-letter words containing r, e, a, c, h, m
- chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
- clackmannanshire — a council area and historical county of central Scotland; became part of the Central region in 1975 but reinstated as an independent unitary authority in 1996; mainly agricultural. Administrative centre: Alloa. Pop: 47 680 (2003 est). Area: 142 sq km (55 sq miles)
- cochlear implant — a device that stimulates the acoustic nerve in the inner ear in order to produce some form of hearing in people who are deaf from inner ear disease
- community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
- comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
- crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
- debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
- devonshire cream — clotted cream.
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
- direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
- disfranchisement — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
- dredging machine — dredge1 (def 1).
- drumhead cabbage — acommon type of cabbage with tightly packed leaves and a rounded form with a slightly flattened top
- drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
- electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
- enriched uranium — uranium in which the proportion of the fissile isotope U-235 has been increased to make it more fissile
- expectant mother — a pregnant woman
- extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
- farmhouse cheese — cheese that is made by traditional methods, on or as if on a farm
- father christmas — Santa Claus.
- feather merchant — a person who avoids responsibility and effort; loafer.
- femme de chambre — a chambermaid
- firewall machine — (networking, security) A dedicated gateway server with special security precautions on it, used to service external connections (typically from the public Internet). The firewall machine protects servers and networks hidden behind it from crackers. The typical firewall is an inexpensive microprocessor-based Unix machine with no critical data, with public network ports on it, but just one carefully watched connection back to the rest of the cluster. The special precautions may include threat monitoring, call-back, and even a complete iron box keyable to particular incoming IDs or activity patterns. The type of network and security environment of a firewall machine is often called a De-Militarised Zone (DMZ). It may contain other servers such as e-mail servers or proxy gateways - machines that need to be publicly accessible but also need some access to internal systems. Also known as a (Venus) flytrap after the insect-eating plant.
- franking machine — a machine that franks letters
- french cameroons — Cameroun (def 2).
- french ice cream — a type of ice cream in which an egg and cream mixture is cooked to a light custard before being frozen.
- galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
- geomorphological — Of or pertaining to geomorphology.
- german cockroach — a common yellowish-brown cockroach, Blatta germanica, brought into the U.S. from Europe.
- haemochromatosis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemochromatosis.
- hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
- high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
- himachal pradesh — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
- hispano-american — Spanish.
- homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
- homeroom teacher — the teacher attached to the homeroom of a group of students
- hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
- hyperaccumulator — a plant that absorbs toxins, such as heavy metals, to a greater concentration than that in the soil in which it is growing
- hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- infernal machine — a concealed or disguised explosive device intended to destroy life or property.
- insurance scheme — a scheme that provides insurance
- j. random hacker — (jargon) /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL.