16-letter words containing chi
- parochialization — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- pattern matching — 1. A function is defined to take arguments of a particular type, form or value. When applying the function to its actual arguments it is necessary to match the type, form or value of the actual arguments against the formal arguments in some definition. For example, the function length [] = 0 length (x:xs) = 1 + length xs uses pattern matching in its argument to distinguish a null list from a non-null one. There are well known algorithm for translating pattern matching into conditional expressions such as "if" or "case". E.g. the above function could be transformed to 2. Descriptive of a type of language or utility such as awk or Perl which is suited to searching for strings or patterns in input data, usually using some kind of regular expression.
- pavillon chinois — crescent (def 6).
- pitching pennies — a gambling game in which pennies are tossed to a mark or against a wall, the winner being the person whose penny lands closest to the mark or wall.
- pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
- psychic distance — the degree of emotional detachment maintained toward a person, group of people, event, etc.
- pygmy chimpanzee — a small chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, primarily of swamp forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a threatened species.
- pyramidal orchid — a chalk-loving orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis, bearing a dense cone-shaped spike of purplish-pink flowers with a long curved spur
- quick with child — pregnant, esp being in an advanced state of pregnancy, when the movements of the fetus can be felt
- riau archipelago — a group of islands belonging to Indonesia, off the SE coast of the Malay Peninsula, at the entrance to the Strait of Malacca. 36,510 sq. mi. (94,561 sq. km).
- saddle stitching — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
- sado-masochistic — Something that is sado-masochistic is connected with the practice of sado-masochism.
- schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- school-age child — a child who is old enough to go to school
- second childhood — senility; dotage.
- sonata da chiesa — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, that usually consists of four movements alternating between slow and fast.
- sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
- spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- 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
- sulu archipelago — an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Jolo.
- system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
- 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.
- the christ child — a very reverential way of referring to Jesus Christ as a child, used particularly when referring to art
- tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
- water chinquapin — an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.
- weighing machine — large measuring scales
- windchill factor — an estimated measurement of the cooling effect of air and wind, esp. when applied to the loss of body heat from exposed skin; chill factor
- zone of leaching — A horizon.