16-letter words containing s, h
- church suffering — the souls in purgatory.
- churidar pyjamas — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- chuvash republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga valley: generally low-lying with undulating plains and large areas of forest. Capital: Cheboksary. Pop: 1 313 900 (2002). Area: 18 300 sq km (7064 sq miles)
- chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
- chytridiomycosis — An infectious disease of amphibians caused by the chytrid fungus.
- circuit switched — circuit switching
- civilian clothes — not military uniform
- 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)
- classical school — an economic theory based on the works of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, which explains the creation of wealth and advocates free trade
- clay-with-flints — a deposit of stiff clay containing unworn whole flints in the S England
- 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
- cobweb houseleek — a small southern European plant, Sempervivum arachoideum, of the stonecrop family, having a dense, globular cluster of cobwebby leaves and red flowers on hairy stalks.
- cochineal cactus — a treelike cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera, of Mexico and Central America, that is a principal source of food of the cochineal insect.
- cochineal insect — a Mexican homopterous insect, Dactylopius coccus, that feeds on cacti
- colonial heights — a town in central Virginia.
- columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- combination shot — a shot in pool in which the cue ball strikes at least one object ball before contact is made with the ball to be pocketed.
- combined honours — (in British education) a degree course that includes more than one subject
- commission house — a brokerage firm that buys and sells for customers on a commission basis
- commissionership — The role or office of commissioner.
- community school — a school offering some nonacademic activities related to life in a particular community and often serving as a community centre
- composite school — a secondary school offering both academic and nonacademic courses
- concertina crash — a collision in which vehicle after vehicle hits the one ahead in a sequence of events triggered by the first car crash
- 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.
- consulting hours — the hours during which health practitioners are available for consultation
- continuous hinge — a long narrow hinge that runs the full length of the two surfaces to which its leaves are joined.
- contour feathers — feathers that form the surface plumage of a bird and determine the outer contour, including the wing and tail feathers
- cook-chill foods — foods which are chilled rapidly and reheated as required
- cool one's heels — to wait or be kept waiting
- coping mechanism — something a person does to deal with a difficult situation
- copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
- corned beef hash — a dish consisting of corned beef chopped and mixed together with mashed potatoes and various other ingredients, then fried
- cornhusker state — Nebraska (used as a nickname).
- corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
- coronary cushion — a thick band of vascular tissue in the coronet of horses and other hoofed animals that secretes the horny wall of the hoof.
- cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
- cowichan sweater — a heavy sweater of grey, unbleached wool with distinctive designs that were originally black-and-white but are now sometimes coloured: knitted originally by Cowichan Indians in British Columbia
- craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
- crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
- creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
- creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
- cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
- crossbow archery — the sport of shooting with a crossbow
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
- cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
- cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin