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16-letter words containing s, h, e, d

  • chagas---disease — an infectious disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, occurring chiefly in tropical America and characterized by irregular fever, palpable lymph nodes, and often heart damage.
  • channel islander — a person who comes from one of the Channel Islands
  • chanson de geste — one of a genre of Old French epic poems celebrating heroic deeds, the most famous of which is the Chanson de Roland
  • charles chandler — Charles Frederick, 1836–1925, U.S. scientist, educator, and public-health expert.
  • chase the dragon — to smoke opium or heroin
  • checking deposit — a deposit on which cheques may be drawn
  • cheddar (cheese) — a variety of hard, smooth cheese, mild to very sharp
  • chest of drawers — A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.
  • chevaux-de-frise — plural of cheval-de-frise.
  • children's panel — (in Scotland) a group of representatives of relevant agencies, with the power to deal with a child under sixteen who is in criminal or family trouble. Its hearings are private and replace most of the functions of juvenile courts
  • chinese calendar — the former calendar of China, in which the year consisted of 12 lunar months with an intercalary month added seven times every 19 years to reconcile the lunar year of 354 days with the solar year of 365 days, time being reckoned in 60-year cycles with the first cycle dating from 2637 b.c.
  • chinese medicine — a traditional system of medical treatment based on the principles of Yin and Yang, involving such treatments as acupuncture and the use of a range of drugs derived from animal and vegetable sources
  • chinese windlass — differential windlass
  • chinese wood oil — tung oil.
  • chipped potatoes — chips
  • chopped tomatoes — tomatoes cut into pieces
  • christmas dinner — the main meal on Christmas day, eaten any time in the afternoon or evening
  • circuit switched — circuit switching
  • clearsightedness — The property of being clearsighted.
  • close by/at hand — Something that is close by or close at hand is near to you.
  • cluster headache — a type of recurrent headache characterized by sudden onset and intense pain on one side of the face near the eye
  • combined honours — (in British education) a degree course that includes more than one subject
  • connect the dots — join dots to form a picture
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • corned beef hash — a dish consisting of corned beef chopped and mixed together with mashed potatoes and various other ingredients, then fried
  • corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
  • crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
  • creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
  • cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • dark-side hacker — (jargon, legal)   A criminal or malicious hacker; a cracker. From George Lucas's Darth Vader, "seduced by the dark side of the Force". The implication that hackers form a sort of elite of technological Jedi Knights is intended. Opposite: samurai.
  • darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • database machine — (hardware)   A computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel. This contrasts with a database server, which is a computer in a local area network that holds a database. The database machine is tightly coupled to the main CPU, whereas the database server is loosely coupled via the network.
  • dead-smooth file — the smoothest grade of file commonly used
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
  • deep in the past — long ago
  • deep-sea fishing — the activity of catching fish that live in the deep parts of the sea
  • dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
  • dental hygienist — a dentist's assistant skilled in dental hygiene
  • depart this life — to die
  • depending on sth — You use depending on when you are saying that something varies according to the circumstances mentioned.
  • dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
  • depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
  • derbyshire chair — a chair of the mid-17th century, made of oak, usually without arms, and having a back of two carved rails between square uprights.
  • devonshire cream — clotted cream.
  • devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
  • dialysis machine — device: kidney treatment
  • diesel-hydraulic — a locomotive driven by a diesel engine through hydraulic transmission and torque converters
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