16-letter words containing t, h, o, r, u
- cornhusker state — Nebraska (used as a nickname).
- counter-checking — a check that opposes or restrains.
- counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
- cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
- cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin
- cut-throat razor — a razor with a long blade that usually folds into the handle
- cystourethrocele — A urethrocele occurring with a cystocele.
- cytoarchitecture — (biology) The arrangement of cells in an organism or organ.
- data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
- debenture holder — a person or organization holds a debenture
- drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
- exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
- fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
- father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
- ferrous sulphate — an iron salt with a saline taste, usually obtained as greenish crystals of the heptahydrate, which are converted to the white monohydrate above 100°C: used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia. Formula: FeSO4
- find favour with — to be approved of by someone
- finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
- first four ships — the earliest settlers' ships to arrive in the Canterbury Province
- fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
- flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
- food for thought — sth worth thinking about
- fool around with — have casual sex
- for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
- fort sam houston — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in San Antonio, Tex.
- fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
- fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
- frankfurt school — a school of thought, founded at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others, derived from Marxist, Freudian, and Hegelian theory
- fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
- french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
- full to the brim — If something, especially a container, is filled to the brim or full to the brim with something, it is filled right up to the top.
- furniture polish — product: shines wood
- girls' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women
- glory-of-the-sun — a bulbous, Chilean plant, Leucocoryne ixioides, of the amaryllis family, having fragrant, white or blue flowers.
- go with the turf — to be an unavoidable part of a particular situation or process
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
- government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
- great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
- grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- gum up the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
- hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
- hang around with — to associate or socialize with
- hard put (to it) — having considerable difficulty or trouble
- health authority — a government agency that is responsible for NHS care in a particular area
- heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.