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16-letter words containing t, i, c, a, o, e

  • chipped potatoes — chips
  • chloracetic acid — chloroacetic acid.
  • chlorinated lime — bleaching powder.
  • chocolate eclair — a finger-shaped cake made of choux pastry, filled with cream and iced with chocolate
  • 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
  • chomp at the bit — champ at the bit (see phrase under champ1)
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
  • 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.
  • citronella grass — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
  • city of aberdeen — a council area in NE Scotland, established in 1996. Pop: 206 600 (2003 est). Area: 186 sq km (72 sq miles)
  • civilian clothes — not military uniform
  • cladogenetically — By means of cladogenesis.
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
  • cloakroom ticket — a ticket given to someone who checks a coat or other personal item into a cloakroom and which is used to redeem that item at a later period
  • cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
  • closed-captioned — (of a video recording) having subtitles which appear on screen only if the cassette is played through a special decoder
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • co-determination — a system of industrial management in which workers share responsibility for the operation of a company, as through elected representation on a corporate supervisory board
  • 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
  • cocktail cabinet — a cupboard in which glasses and bottles are kept
  • cocktail sausage — a small sausage served with drinks
  • code of practice — A code of practice is a set of written rules which explains how people working in a particular profession should behave.
  • coign of vantage — an advantageous position or stance for observation or action
  • 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.
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • collection plate — a plate that is used in church to collect money for charity or the support of the church
  • collectivisation — Alternative spelling of collectivization.
  • collectivization — to organize (a people, industry, economy, etc.) according to the principles of collectivism.
  • colonial heights — a town in central Virginia.
  • colorimetrically — (analytical chemistry) By means of colorimetry or by using a colorimeter.
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • come and get it! — the meal is ready!
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commercial pilot — an airplane pilot licensed to transport passengers, goods, etc.
  • commission agent — a person who sells goods and services for a fee
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • commutation-test — the act of substituting one thing for another; substitution; exchange.
  • compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
  • compartmentalize — To compartmentalize something means to divide it into separate sections.
  • compartmentation — subdivision of a hull into spaces enclosed by watertight bulkheads and sometimes by watertight decks.
  • complete lattice — A lattice is a partial ordering of a set under a relation where all finite subsets have a least upper bound and a greatest lower bound. A complete lattice also has these for infinite subsets. Every finite lattice is complete. Some authors drop the requirement for greatest lower bounds.
  • complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
  • complexing agent — an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
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