16-letter words containing a, c, t, m, h, e
- system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
- teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
- 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.
- thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
- the caine mutiny — a novel by Herman Wouk, later made into a film
- the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
- the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
- the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
- thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
- thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
- thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
- thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- three-ball match — a match among three players each of whom plays a ball.
- three-card monte — a gambling game in which the players are shown three cards and bet that they can identify one particular card of the three, as stipulated by the dealer, after the cards have been moved around face down by the dealer.
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
- tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
- valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
- vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
- walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends