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16-letter words containing a, c, t, e, d

  • condensed matter — crystalline and amorphous solids and liquids, including liquid crystals, glasses, polymers, and gels
  • conditional sale — a sale in which the title of a property remains with the seller until some condition is met, as the payment of the full purchase price.
  • confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
  • confederationist — A supporter of confederation.
  • confidentialness — The state or quality of being confidential.
  • consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • consubstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of consubstantiate.
  • container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
  • continental code — Morse1
  • contraindicative — Serving as a contraindication.
  • conventionalised — to make conventional.
  • conventionalized — to make conventional.
  • cordon sanitaire — a guarded line serving to cut off an infected area
  • coromandel coast — the SE coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, extending from Point Calimere to the mouth of the Krishna River
  • corporate ladder — the hierarchy of posts with a particular corporation or corporations in general
  • corporate raider — A corporate raider is a person or organization that tries to take control of a company by buying a large number of its shares.
  • corrugated paper — a packaging material made from layers of heavy paper, the top layer of which is grooved and ridged
  • cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
  • cracked fraction — A cracked fraction is a petroleum fraction (= a portion separated according to a physical property) that has been broken down from a fraction with larger molecules.
  • cracked up to be — alleged or believed to be
  • crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
  • 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)
  • critical density — the density of matter that would be required to halt the expansion of the universe
  • croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
  • 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
  • currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
  • cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
  • 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.
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
  • de-anglicization — (in Ireland) the elimination of English influence, language, customs, etc
  • de-concentration — to reduce the power or control of (a corporation, industry, etc.); decentralize.
  • dealcoholization — to remove some or all of the alcohol from (a drink).
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • 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.
  • debut appearance — debut
  • decapitalization — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
  • decentralization — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
  • decimal fraction — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
  • declassification — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
  • decontextualized — removed from the usual context
  • definite article — The word 'the' is sometimes called the definite article.
  • dehumidification — Dehumidification is the removal of vapor from a gas-vapor mixture.
  • dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
  • delayed reaction — response after an interval
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