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16-letter words containing to

  • autotransformers — Plural form of autotransformer.
  • autotransfusions — Plural form of autotransfusion.
  • bacterioplankton — (biology) The bacterial component of marine plankton.
  • badminton racket — the type of racket used in games of badminton
  • ballast resistor — ballast (def 5a).
  • ballast-resistor — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
  • barbecue stopper — a controversial current-affairs issue
  • barclay de tolly — Prince Mikhail (mixaˈil). 1761–1818, Russian field marshal: commander in chief against Napoleon in 1812
  • bastard toadflax — any of several low-growing, often parasitic plants of the genus Comandra, having alternate leaves and clusters of small whitish flowers.
  • be as good as to — would you please
  • beat to the draw — to be quicker than (another) in doing something, as in drawing one's weapon
  • beefsteak tomato — a very large fleshy variety of tomato
  • benito mussolini — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Italian be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Italian bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), (I"Il Duce") 1883–1945, Italian Fascist leader: premier of Italy 1922–43.
  • bermuda palmetto — a palm, Sabal bermudana, of Bermuda, having small, roundish, black fruit and leaves that are checkered beneath.
  • bite your tongue — either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
  • black bottom pie — a rich pie with a rum- or whiskey-flavored chocolate filling, often with a crust of crushed gingersnaps, and topped with whipped cream.
  • bleeder resistor — a resistor connected across the output terminals of a power supply in order to improve voltage regulation and to discharge filter capacitors
  • blink comparator — an optical instrument used to detect small differences in two photographs of the same field or object by viewing them alternately, switching rapidly from one to the other.
  • boolean-operator — any operation in which each of the operands and the result take one of two values.
  • boston cream pie — a cake of two layers with icing and a creamy filling
  • boston tea party — a raid in 1773 made by citizens of Boston (disguised as Indians) on three British ships in the harbour as a protest against taxes on tea and the monopoly given to the East India Company. The contents of several hundred chests of tea were dumped into the harbour
  • bring sb to book — If you bring someone to book, you punish them for an offence or make them explain their behaviour officially.
  • bring sb to heel — If you bring someone to heel, you force them to obey you.
  • bring to bear on — to cause to have an effect on
  • bring to justice — to capture, try, and usually punish (a criminal, an outlaw, etc)
  • brompton mixture — a mixture of narcotics, tranquilizers, and alcohol, used to kill pain for terminally ill patients
  • bumper to bumper — If traffic is bumper to bumper, the vehicles are so close to one another that they are almost touching and are moving very slowly.
  • bumper-to-bumper — marked by a long line of cars moving slowly or with many stops and starts, one behind the other: bumper-to-bumper traffic.
  • button one's lip — to stop talking: often imperative
  • button snakeroot — blazing star (sense 1)
  • bypass capacitor — a capacitor which provides a low-impedance path for alternating current while not passing any direct current
  • cabbage palmetto — a tropical American fan palm, Sabal palmetto, with edible leaf buds and leaves used in thatching
  • call to quarters — a bugle call shortly before taps, notifying soldiers to retire to their quarters
  • cantor's paradox — the paradox derived from the supposition of an all-inclusive universal set, since every set has more subsets than members while every subset of such a universal set would be a member of it
  • cartographically — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
  • casting director — the person in charge of choosing of actors for a production
  • castor-oil plant — a tall euphorbiaceous Indian plant, Ricinus communis, cultivated in tropical regions for ornament and for its poisonous seeds, from which castor oil is extracted
  • cataractogenesis — The formation of a cataract.
  • cavity resonator — a conducting surface enclosing a space in which an oscillating electromagnetic field can be maintained, the dimensions of the cavity determining the resonant frequency of the oscillations. It is used in microwave devices for frequencies exceeding 300 megahertz
  • cervera y topete — Pascual [pahs-kwahl] /pɑsˈkwɑl/ (Show IPA), 1839–1909, Spanish admiral.
  • charge to a room — If you charge an item or expense to a room at a hotel, you add it to a guest's final bill so they can pay for it when they check out of the room.
  • chemoautotrophic — producing organic matter by the use of energy obtained by oxidation of certain chemicals with carbon dioxide as the carbon source
  • chipped potatoes — chips
  • cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
  • chopped tomatoes — tomatoes cut into pieces
  • christmas factor — a protein implicated in the process of blood clotting, the lack of which causes Christmas disease
  • chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
  • circumlocutorily — In a circumlocutory manner.
  • circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
  • climatologically — In climatological terms.
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