16-letter words containing cle
- oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
- papillary muscle — one of the small bundles of muscles attached to the ventricle walls and to the chordae tendineae that tighten these tendons during ventricular contraction.
- particle physics — the branch of physics that deals with the properties and behavior of elementary particles.
- re-entry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
- recovery vehicle — a truck used to transport motor vehicles which have broken down to another location (generally a repair garage), or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface
- ribonucleic acid — RNA.
- scarlet clematis — a slightly woody vine, Clematis texensis, of Texas, having bluish-green leaves, plumed fruit, and solitary, urn-shaped, scarlet-to-pink flowers.
- sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- sleep-wake cycle — Physiology. the species-specific biological pattern of alternating sleep and wakefulness, in humans roughly 8 hours of nocturnal sleep and 16 hours of daytime activity.
- special clearing — (in Britain) the clearing of a cheque through a bank in less than the usual three days, for an additional charge
- spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
- strange particle — any elementary particle with a strangeness quantum number other than zero.
- tabernacle frame — a frame, especially of the 18th century, around a doorway, niche, etc., that suggests a small building, characteristically one with a pediment and two pilasters on a base.
- to clear the air — If you do something to clear the air, you do it in order to resolve any problems or disagreements that there might be.
- to move a muscle — If you say that someone did not move a muscle, you mean that they stayed absolutely still.
- two-stroke cycle — See under two-cycle.
- upsilon particle — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
- virtual particle — an elementary particle of transitory existence that does not appear as a free particle in a particular situation but that can transmit a force from one particle to another.
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- with clean hands — innocently