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16-letter words containing t, h, a, l

  • chlorinated lime — bleaching powder.
  • chlorophenothane — DDT.
  • choanoflagellate — any flagellate of the genera Monosiga and Proterospongia, having a protoplasmic collar encircling the base of the flagellum.
  • chocolate eclair — a finger-shaped cake made of choux pastry, filled with cream and iced with chocolate
  • cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
  • cholera infantum — an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.
  • cholesterolaemia — the presence of abnormally high levels of cholesterol in the blood
  • christmas beetle — any of various greenish-gold Australian scarab beetles of the genus Anoplognathus, which are common in summer
  • christmas island — an island in the Indian Ocean, south of Java: administered by Singapore (1900–58), now by Australia; phosphate mining. Pop: 1496 (2013 est). Area: 135 sq km (52 sq miles)
  • christmas lights — strings of lights put up in the Christmas period to decorate houses
  • chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
  • chromolithograph — a picture produced by chromolithography
  • chryselephantine — (of ancient Greek statues) made of or overlaid with gold and ivory
  • cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
  • civilian clothes — not military uniform
  • clay-with-flints — a deposit of stiff clay containing unworn whole flints in the S England
  • clean technology — techniques used in manufacturing processes that minimize the damage caused to the environment
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • cock of the walk — a person who asserts himself or herself in a strutting pompous way
  • coital exanthema — a common venereal disease affecting horses and cattle, caused by a virus and characterized by the appearance of pustules on the mucous membranes of the genital organs and neighboring skin.
  • colonial heights — a town in central Virginia.
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
  • commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
  • comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
  • cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
  • counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
  • cyclohexamantane — (chemistry) A certain diamondoid, C26H30.
  • cytotrophoblasts — Plural form of cytotrophoblast.
  • daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
  • dead-smooth file — the smoothest grade of file commonly used
  • dealcoholization — to remove some or all of the alcohol from (a drink).
  • dear john letter — a letter from someone (esp to a man) breaking off a love affair
  • dental hygienist — a dentist's assistant skilled in dental hygiene
  • depart this life — to die
  • dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
  • diacetylmorphine — heroin.
  • diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
  • diethyltoluamide — a liquid, C 12 H 17 NO, used as an insect repellent and resin solvent.
  • digital research — (company)   The company which developed CP/M, the operating system used on many of the first generation 8-bit microprocessor-based personal computers. Digital Research also produced DR-DOS. Address: Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
  • dimethyl sulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
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