15-letter words containing t, h, e, c, l, o
- phytochemically — in a phytochemical manner
- plain chocolate — dark eating chocolate
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- rochester hills — city in SE Mich., near Detroit: pop. 69,000
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
- school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
- school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
- scottish gaelic — the Gaelic of the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland, also spoken as a second language in Nova Scotia.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- separate school — (in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
- slashdot effect — a temporary surge in the numbers visiting a website and consequent service slowdown or even server crash that sometimes arises as a result of a new link being set up from a more popular website
- social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
- sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
- soft-shell clam — an edible clam, Mya arenaria, inhabiting waters along both coasts of North America, having an oval, relatively thin, whitish shell.
- soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
- solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
- stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
- sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- techno-thriller — a suspense novel in which the manipulation of sophisticated technology, as of aircraft or weapons systems, plays a prominent part.
- technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- the common weal — the good of society
- the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
- the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
- the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
- the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
- the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
- the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
- thermal reactor — a nuclear reactor in which most of the fission is caused by thermal neutrons
- thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
- threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
- to fly the coop — If you say that someone has flown the coop, you mean that they have left a place or situation that limits their freedom.
- travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
- trichloroacetic — as in trichloroacetic acid
- trichloroethane — a volatile nonflammable colourless liquid with low toxicity used for cleaning electrical apparatus and as a solvent; 1,2,3-trichloroethane. Formula: CH3CCl3
- trochlear nerve — either one of the fourth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the superior oblique muscle of the upper part of the eyeball.
- ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- venetian school — any of various groups of artists identified with Venice throughout the history of Italian art but most notably the painters of the 18th century, as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi, and Antonio Canaletto.