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16-letter words containing a, c, t, g

  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • college graduate — a student who has recently graduated from college
  • colonial heights — a town in central Virginia.
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • come and get it! — the meal is ready!
  • commission agent — a person who sells goods and services for a fee
  • common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • commutator group — the subgroup of a given group, which consists of all the commutators in the group.
  • complexing agent — an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
  • computer program — a set of instructions for a computer to perform some task
  • configurationism — Gestalt psychology
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • congo free state — a former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • congressionalist — of or relating to a congress.
  • 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.
  • constant folding — (compiler)   A compiler optimisation technique where constant subexpressions are evaluated at compile time. This is usually only applied to built-in numerical and boolean operators whereas partial evaluation is more general in that expressions involving user-defined functions may also be evaluated at compile time.
  • constant mapping — (networking)   A precursor to ARP used by some TCP software in which the destination Ethernet address is constructed from the top 24 bits of the source Ethernet address followed by the low 24 bits of the (class A) destination Internet address. For this scheme the top 24 bits of the Ethernet address must be the same on all hosts on the network.
  • contact magazine — a magazine in which to place adverts to make contacts, esp sexual ones
  • contact printing — the process of making contact prints.
  • contagious magic — magic that attempts to affect a person through something once connected with him or her, as a shirt once worn by the person or a footprint left in the sand; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that things once in contact are in some way permanently so, however separated physically they may subsequently become.
  • container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
  • contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
  • contract killing — a murder carried out in fulfilment of a contract
  • contraindicating — Present participle of contraindicate.
  • control language — (language)   (CL) The batch language for IBM RPG/38, used in conjunction with RPG III. See also OCL.
  • correcting plate — a thin lens used to correct incoming light rays in special forms of reflecting telescopes.
  • corrugated paper — a packaging material made from layers of heavy paper, the top layer of which is grooved and ridged
  • cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
  • 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.
  • counter-argument — A counter-argument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
  • 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.
  • counterattacking — Present participle of counterattack.
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
  • counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
  • counterguerrilla — (of operations, conflicts, etc) conducted against guerrillas
  • countermigration — a migration in the opposite direction.
  • countersignature — second signature
  • creative writing — Creative writing is writing such as novels, stories, poems, and plays.
  • critical damping — the minimum amount of viscous damping that results in a displaced system returning to its original position without oscillation
  • crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
  • cryptozoological — (cryptozoology) Of or pertaining to cryptozoology.
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
  • currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
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