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16-letter words containing s, o, t, h

  • aversion therapy — a method of suppressing an undesirable habit, such as excessive smoking, by causing the subject to associate an unpleasant effect, such as an electric shock or nausea, with the habit
  • away from sb/sth — If something is away from a person or place, it is at a distance from that person or place.
  • bachelor of arts — a degree conferred on a person who has successfully completed his or her undergraduate studies, usually in a branch of the liberal arts or humanities
  • bachelor-at-arms — bachelor (def 4).
  • bartholomeu dias — Bartholomeu [bahr-too-loo-me-oo] /ˌbɑr tʊ lʊˈmɛ ʊ/ (Show IPA), c1450–1500, Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope.
  • basic dichromate — an orange-red, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, Bi 2 O 3 ⋅2CrO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment in paints.
  • bastard mahogany — an Australian tree, Eucalyptus botryoides, of the myrtle family, having lance-shaped leaves and furrowed bark.
  • batch processing — manufacturing products or treating materials in batches, by passing the output of one process to subsequent processes
  • bbn technologies — (company)   A company, originally known as Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. BBN were awarded the original contract to build the ARPANET and have been extensively involved in Internet development. They are responsible for managing NNSC, CSNET, and NEARnet. The language LOGO was developed at BBN, as was the BBN Butterfly supercomputer.
  • beg the question — If you say that something begs a particular question, you mean that it makes people want to ask that question; some people consider that this use is incorrect.
  • beside the point — If you say that something is beside the point, you mean that it is not relevant to the subject that you are discussing.
  • birthday honours — (in Britain) honorary titles conferred on the official birthday of the sovereign
  • blow the whistle — to inform (on)
  • branchiopneustic — breathing by means of gills, as certain aquatic insect larvae.
  • bring sb to heel — If you bring someone to heel, you force them to obey you.
  • british columbia — a province of W Canada, on the Pacific coast: largely mountainous with extensive forests, rich mineral resources, and important fisheries. Capital: Victoria. Pop: 4 400 057 (2011 est). Area: 930 532 sq km (359 279 sq miles)
  • british honduras — Belize
  • british longhair — a breed of large cat with a semi-long thick soft coat
  • bronchial asthma — asthma.
  • brothel-creepers — soft-soled men's shoes that were originally popular in the 1950s
  • brown house moth — a species of micro moth, Hofmannophila pseudospretella, which, although it usually inhabits birds' nests, sometimes enters houses where its larvae can be very destructive of stored fabrics and foodstuffs
  • bust one's chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
  • cache on a stick — (architecture)   (COAST) Intel Corporation attempt to's standardise the modular L2 cache subsystem in Pentium-based computers. A COAST module should be about 4.35" wide by 1.14" high. According to earlier specifications from Motorola, a module between 4.33" and 4.36" wide, and between 1.12" and 1.16" high is within the COAST standard. Some module vendors, including some major motherboard suppliers, greatly violate the height specification. Another COAST specification violated by many suppliers concerns clock distribution in synchronous modules. The specification requires that the clock tree to each synchronous chip be balanced, i.e. equal length from edge of the connector to individual chips. An unbalanced clock tree increases reflections and noise. For a 256 kilobyte cache module the standard requires the same clock be used for both chips but some vendors use separate clocks to reduce loading on the clock driver and hence increase the clock speed. However, this creates unbalanced loading in other motherboard configurations, such as motherboards with soldered caches in the system.
  • call one's shots — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • carnot's theorem — the principle that no engine operating between two given temperatures can be more efficient than a Carnot engine operating between the same temperatures.
  • cash transaction — a piece of business, for example an act of buying or selling something
  • cashless society — a society in which purchases of goods or services are made by credit card or electronic funds transferral rather than with cash or checks.
  • catastrophically — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
  • catch oneself on — to realize that one's actions are mistaken
  • 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
  • characterisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of characterization.
  • chase the dragon — to smoke opium or heroin
  • chatsworth house — a mansion near Bakewell in Derbyshire: seat of the Dukes of Devonshire; built (1687–1707) in the classical style
  • chattel personal — an item of movable personal property, such as furniture, domestic animals, etc
  • checking deposit — a deposit on which cheques may be drawn
  • chemolithotrophs — Plural form of chemolithotroph.
  • chemoluminescent — (chemistry) Exhibiting chemoluminescence.
  • chest of drawers — A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.
  • chipped potatoes — chips
  • cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
  • cholesterolaemia — the presence of abnormally high levels of cholesterol in the blood
  • chopped tomatoes — tomatoes cut into pieces
  • chorioamnionitis — Inflammation of the fetal membranes (amnion and chorion) due to a bacterial infection, most often associated with prolonged labour.
  • choriomeningitis — (medicine) A form of cerebral meningitis associated with inflammation of the choroid plexus.
  • christening robe — a long white dress worn by a baby at his or her christening
  • christian action — an inter-Church movement formed in 1946 to promote Christian ideals in society at large
  • christmas factor — a protein implicated in the process of blood clotting, the lack of which causes Christmas disease
  • chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • chytridiomycosis — An infectious disease of amphibians caused by the chytrid fungus.
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