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16-letter words containing t, o, y, i, s, h

  • monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • neo-christianity — any interpretation of Christianity based on the prevalent philosophy of a given period.
  • neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
  • non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • opportunity shop — a shop selling second-hand goods for charitable funds
  • orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
  • ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
  • photosensitivity — the quality of being photosensitive.
  • phototypesetting — Printing. photocomposition.
  • phytosuccivorous — feeding on sap, as certain sucking insects.
  • psychoanalytical — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • psychogeriatrics — the psychology of old age.
  • recursion theory — (theory)   The study of problems that, in principle, cannot be solved by either computers or humans.
  • rhinopharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and pharynx.
  • schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
  • shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
  • shorthand typist — A shorthand typist is a person who types and writes shorthand, usually in an office.
  • shutter priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
  • shutter-priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
  • social pathology — a social factor, as poverty, old age, or crime, that tends to increase social disorganization and inhibit personal adjustment.
  • sodium methylate — a white, free-flowing, flammable powder, CH 3 ONa, decomposed by water to sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • spectrochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical analysis of substances by means of the spectra of light they absorb or emit.
  • speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
  • two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
  • typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • woody nightshade — bittersweet (def 3).
  • yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them
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