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16-letter words containing t, i, e, h

  • spiritual healer — a faith healer
  • spreader-ditcher — a machine for shaping and cleaning roadbeds and ditches and for freeing tracks of ice and snow by plowing and digging.
  • squatter's right — a claim to real property, especially public land, that may be granted to a person who has openly possessed and continuously occupied it without legal authority for a prescribed period of years.
  • st. clair shores — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • st. lucie cherry — mahaleb.
  • stab in the back — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
  • standard english — the English language in its most widely accepted form, as written and spoken by educated people in both formal and informal contexts, having universal currency while incorporating regional differences.
  • stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
  • stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
  • static character — a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.
  • static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
  • steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • stephen f austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • steric hindrance — the prevention or retardation of inter- or intramolecular interactions as a result of the spatial structure of a molecule.
  • sterling heights — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • sth rings a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • stilton (cheese) — a rich, crumbly cheese with veins of blue-green mold
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • straight shooter — a person who is forthright and upstanding in behavior.
  • straight whiskey — pure, unblended whiskey of 80 to 110 proof.
  • strain hardening — a process in which a metal is permanently deformed in order to increase its resistance to further deformation
  • streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
  • street christian — (especially in the 1960s) a Christian whose religious life centers more in social or communal groups than in institutional churches.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • student teaching — the act of teaching in a school for a limited period under supervision as part of a course to qualify as a teacher
  • sulphur trioxide — a white corrosive substance existing in three crystalline forms of which the stable (alpha-) form is usually obtained as silky needles. It is produced by the oxidation of sulphur dioxide, and is used in the sulphonation of organic compounds. Formula: SO3
  • summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
  • summation method — a method for associating a sum with a divergent series.
  • summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • sushi restaurant — a restaurant serving sushi
  • sweeten the pill — If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable.
  • synthetic cubism — the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.
  • synthetic rubber — any of several substances similar to natural rubber in properties and uses, produced by the polymerization of an unsaturated hydrocarbon, as butylene or isoprene, or by the copolymerization of such hydrocarbons with styrene, butadiene, or the like.
  • synthetic speech — computer-generated audio output that resembles human speech, produced by an electronic synthesizer operated by means of a keyboard.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • take (to) flight — to run away; flee
  • take a raincheck — to accept the postponement of an offer
  • take the biscuit — Take the biscuit means the same as take the cake.
  • take the liberty — do sth without permission
  • take the lid off — to make startling or spectacular revelations about
  • teacher training — practical teaching course
  • teaching machine — a mechanical, electrical, or other automatic device that presents the user with items of information in planned sequence, registers his or her response to each item, and immediately indicates the acceptability of each response.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • telescopic sight — a telescope mounted on a rifle, etc, used for sighting
  • tensile strength — the resistance of a material to longitudinal stress, measured by the minimum amount of longitudinal stress required to rupture the material.
  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
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