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16-letter words containing a, c, u, i

  • christmas cactus — a Brazilian cactus, Schlumbergera (formerly Zygocactus) truncatus, widely cultivated as an ornamental for its showy red flowers
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
  • chronic glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
  • churidar pyjamas — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
  • chuvash republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga valley: generally low-lying with undulating plains and large areas of forest. Capital: Cheboksary. Pop: 1 313 900 (2002). Area: 18 300 sq km (7064 sq miles)
  • circuit analyzer — multimeter.
  • circuit calculus — (CIRCAL) A process algebra used to model and verify the design correctness of concurrent systems such as digital logic.
  • circuit training — Circuit training is a type of physical training in which you do a series of different exercises, each for a few minutes.
  • circular measure — the measurement of an angle in radians
  • circular sailing — a method of navigation in which the curvature of the earth is taken into consideration.
  • circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulation — The act of walking around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
  • circumlocutional — Of or relating to circumlocution : circumlocutionary.
  • circumnavigating — Present participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigation — to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
  • circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
  • circumstantially — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
  • circumstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
  • circumstantiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumstantiate.
  • clarified butter — butter with the water and milk solids removed, used for cooking at high temperatures without burning
  • clbuttic mistake — the humorous effect created by anti-obscenity filters that automatically replace offensive words in online articles with more acceptable variants
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • cleansing tissue — a small piece of absorbent paper, used especially for removing cleansing cream and cosmetics and also serving as a disposable handkerchief.
  • cleanup campaign — an organized programme to clean up a place, typically organized at a local or regional level
  • cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
  • cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • cluster variable — RR Lyrae star.
  • cochineal cactus — a treelike cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera, of Mexico and Central America, that is a principal source of food of the cochineal insect.
  • cocktail sausage — a small sausage served with drinks
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • command guidance — a method of controlling a missile during flight by transmitting information to it
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
  • communion sunday — any Sunday on which communion is administered.
  • communitarianism — A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities.
  • community action — campaigns undertaken by the people living in a particular place
  • 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
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • commutation-test — the act of substituting one thing for another; substitution; exchange.
  • companion volume — a book that complements another on a related subject, usually by the same author
  • configurationism — Gestalt psychology
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
  • consanguineously — In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.
  • consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
  • consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
  • consequentialist — the theory that human actions derive their moral worth solely from their outcomes or consequences.
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