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16-letter words containing a, c, m, e, s, t

  • christmas dinner — the main meal on Christmas day, eaten any time in the afternoon or evening
  • christmas hamper — a collection of seasonal delicacies, often housed in a wicker hamper, which people or organizations give as Christmas presents
  • chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
  • circumstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
  • circumstantiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumstantiate.
  • clbuttic mistake — the humorous effect created by anti-obscenity filters that automatically replace offensive words in online articles with more acceptable variants
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commensurateness — The state or quality of being commensurate.
  • commission agent — a person who sells goods and services for a fee
  • commutation-test — the act of substituting one thing for another; substitution; exchange.
  • compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
  • complexity class — (algorithm)   A collection of algorithms or computable functions with the same complexity.
  • composite family — the large and varied plant family Compositae (or Asteraceae), typified by herbaceous plants having alternate, opposite, or whorled leaves and a whorl of bracts surrounding the flower heads, which are usually composed of a disk containing tiny petalless flowers and a ray of petals extending from the flowers at the rim of the disk, some flower heads being composed only of a disk or a ray and some plants having clusters of flower heads, and including the aster, daisy, dandelion, goldenrod, marigold, ragweed, sunflower, thistle, and zinnia.
  • condensed matter — crystalline and amorphous solids and liquids, including liquid crystals, glasses, polymers, and gels
  • confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
  • consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
  • consonant system — the consonant phonemes of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
  • constant lambert — Constant [kon-stuh nt] /ˈkɒn stənt/ (Show IPA), 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
  • contemporariness — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • controversialism — The attitude or tendency to engage in controversy.
  • contumaciousness — The property of being contumacious.
  • coromandel coast — the SE coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, extending from Point Calimere to the mouth of the Krishna River
  • counterarguments — Plural form of counterargument.
  • counterstatement — a statement made to deny or refute another statement.
  • cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
  • crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
  • cream puff paste — paste made with eggs, water or milk, butter, and flour, used in making éclairs, profiteroles, and other kinds of puffs.
  • 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.
  • crested screamer — a goose-like aquatic bird, Chauna torquata, of the family Anhimidae of tropical and subtropical South America, having a crest on the back of its head: order Anseriformes (ducks, geese, etc)
  • criminal justice — the system of law enforcement, involving police, lawyers, courts, and corrections, used for all stages of criminal proceedings and punishment.
  • crosscontaminate — Alternative spelling of cross-contaminate.
  • customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
  • dacryocystectomy — The surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • database machine — (hardware)   A computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel. This contrasts with a database server, which is a computer in a local area network that holds a database. The database machine is tightly coupled to the main CPU, whereas the database server is loosely coupled via the network.
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • disfranchisement — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
  • displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
  • distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
  • domain selection — (systems analysis)   The prioritisation and selection of one or more domains for which specific software reuse engineering projects are to be initiated.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
  • e-carrier system — (communications)   A series of digital transmission formats promulgated by the ITU and used outside of North America and Japan. The basic unit of the E-carrier system is the DS0, which has a transmission rate of 64 Kbps, and is commonly used for one voice circuit. The E1 format consists of 32 DS0 channels, for a total capacity of 2.048 Mbps. E2, E3, E4, and E5 circuits carry multiple E1 channels multiplexed, resulting in transmission rates of up to 565.148 Mbps. The E-carrier system is similar to, and compatible with, the T-carrier system used in North America, but has higher capacity since it uses out-of-band signaling in contrast to the in-band signaling or bit-robbing used in the T-system.
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • electrical storm — thunder, lightning
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
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