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16-letter words containing s, c, h, l, e

  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • sole stockholder — the only person who holds shares in a business
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
  • special handling — (in the U.S. Postal Service) the handling of third- and fourth-class mail as first-class upon the payment of a fee.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • speech pathology — the scientific study and treatment of defects, disorders, and malfunctions of speech and voice, as stuttering, lisping, or lalling, and of language disturbances, as aphasia or delayed language acquisition.
  • spherical excess — the difference between the sum of the angles of a spherical triangle and two right angles.
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • 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.
  • st. clair shores — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • st. lucie cherry — mahaleb.
  • 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.
  • stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
  • 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
  • sulu archipelago — an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Jolo.
  • summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
  • synchronous idle — (character)   (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
  • teachers college — a four-year college offering courses for the training of primary and secondary school teachers and granting the bachelor's degree and often advanced degrees.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • telescopic sight — a telescope mounted on a rifle, etc, used for sighting
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the christ child — a very reverential way of referring to Jesus Christ as a child, used particularly when referring to art
  • the creole state — a nickname for Louisiana
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the public purse — money from or controlled by the government
  • the two sicilies — a former kingdom of S Italy, consisting of the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples (1061–1860)
  • 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
  • the welsh office — (formerly) a department of the British government with responsibility for Welsh policies. It was replaced by the Wales office in 1999.
  • the wheel blacks — the international wheelchair rugby football team of New Zealand
  • the-card-players — a painting (1892) by Paul Cézanne.
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
  • to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
  • tollhouse cookie — a crisp cookie containing bits of chocolate and sometimes chopped nuts.
  • 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.
  • traveler's check — a check issued in any of various denominations by a bank, travel agency, etc., that is signed by the purchaser upon purchase and again, in the presence of the payee, when cashing the check or using it to pay for goods or services.
  • troop the colors — to parade the colors, or flag, before troops
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
  • uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • vestibule school — a school in an industrial establishment where new employees are given specific training in the jobs they are to perform.
  • walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
  • whited sepulcher — an evil person who feigns goodness; hypocrite. Matt. 23:27.
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