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16-letter words containing a, c, e, s, o

  • council of state — a council that deliberates on high-level policies of a government.
  • counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
  • counter-instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
  • counter-strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
  • counterarguments — Plural form of counterargument.
  • counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
  • counterirritants — Plural form of counterirritant.
  • counternarcotics — Measures or activities designed to prevent the use or distrubution of iillegal narcotic drugs.
  • counterproposals — Plural form of counterproposal.
  • countersignature — second signature
  • counterstatement — a statement made to deny or refute another statement.
  • course of action — a way of proceeding
  • court of appeals — A Court of Appeals is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
  • couvade syndrome — a psychosomatic condition in which the spouse or partner of a pregnant woman experiences symptoms of childbirth or pregnancy
  • cowichan sweater — a heavy sweater of grey, unbleached wool with distinctive designs that were originally black-and-white but are now sometimes coloured: knitted originally by Cowichan Indians in British Columbia
  • craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
  • creation science — teaching and research based upon the belief that the biblical account of the creation of the world is scientific fact
  • creative commons — Sometimes, creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons; a creative commons license.
  • creative tension — a situation where disagreement or discord ultimately gives rise to better ideas or outcomes
  • crime of passion — a crime, often a murder, committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • critical section — A non-re-entrant piece of code that can only be executed by one process at a time. It will usually terminate in bounded time and a process will only have to wait a bounded time to enter it. Some synchronisation mechanism is required at the entry and exit of the critical section to ensure exclusive use.
  • cross-resistance — immunologic resistance to the pathogenic effects of a microorganism because of previous exposure to another species or type having cross-reactive antigens.
  • crossbow archery — the sport of shooting with a crossbow
  • crosscontaminate — Alternative spelling of cross-contaminate.
  • crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
  • cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • crystal detector — a demodulator, used esp in microwave circuits and in early radio receivers, consisting of a thin metal wire in point contact with a semiconductor crystal
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
  • cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin
  • cut to the chase — If someone cuts to the chase, they start talking about or dealing with what is important, instead of less important things.
  • cute as a button — very sweet, adorable
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • dacryocystectomy — The surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
  • dead sea scrolls — a collection of manuscripts in Hebrew and Aramaic discovered in caves near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956. They are widely held to have been written between about 100 bc and 68 ad and provide important biblical evidence
  • debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
  • declassification — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
  • dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • demoiselle crane — a gray crane, Anthropoides virgo, of northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, having long, white plumes behind each eye.
  • dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
  • devil's advocate — If you play devil's advocate in a discussion or debate, you express an opinion which you may not agree with but which is very different to what other people have been saying, in order to make the argument more interesting.
  • devonshire cream — clotted cream.
  • diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
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