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16-letter words containing t, h, r, i, p

  • burnt-tip orchid — a small orchid, Orchis ustulata, resembling the lady orchid, having dark reddish-brown hoods that give a burnt look to the tip of the flower spike
  • cape cod lighter — a device for lighting a fire, as in a fireplace, consisting of a lump of nonflammable material on a metal rod, that is soaked in kerosene or the like and lighted with a match.
  • carpatho-ukraine — a region in W Ukraine: ceded by Czechoslovakia in 1945.
  • carpenter gothic — (sometimes initial capital letters) a style of Victorian Gothic architecture adapted to the resources of contemporary woodworking tools and machinery.
  • cartographically — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
  • catastrophically — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
  • celestial sphere — an imaginary sphere of infinitely large radius enclosing the universe so that all celestial bodies appear to be projected onto its surface
  • charged particle — an atomic particle with a positive or negative charge, as an electron, proton, or helium ion
  • charmed particle — See at charmed (def 2).
  • chemoautotrophic — producing organic matter by the use of energy obtained by oxidation of certain chemicals with carbon dioxide as the carbon source
  • chemolithotrophs — Plural form of chemolithotroph.
  • chemoreceptivity — The ability of a sense organ to respond to a chemical stimulus.
  • chemotherapeutic — of or used in chemotherapy
  • chian turpentine — turpentine (def 2).
  • child psychiatry — the branch of psychiatry specializing in the treatment of children.
  • christmas hamper — a collection of seasonal delicacies, often housed in a wicker hamper, which people or organizations give as Christmas presents
  • chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
  • 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
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • 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
  • 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.
  • craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
  • creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
  • crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
  • depart this life — to die
  • depth perception — ability to see objects in perspective
  • devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
  • diacetylmorphine — heroin.
  • diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
  • do sth in person — If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
  • earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • electrophilicity — (chemistry, uncountable) the condition of being electrophilic.
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • entrepreneurship — The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
  • ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
  • exponential horn — a horn for the radiation of acoustic or high-frequency electromagnetic waves, of which the cross-sectional area increases exponentially with the length
  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • 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
  • furniture polish — product: shines wood
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • gerontomorphosis — Biology. evolutionary specialization of a species to a degree that decreases its capability for further adaptation and eventually leads to its extinction.
  • graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
  • graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics)   (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
  • growth potential — capability of expanding
  • haptic interface — (interface, hardware)   A touch interface to a computer that provides feedback, such as a data glove.
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