16-letter words containing a, i, c

divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
documentary film — factual, informative film
dolce far niente — pleasing inactivity.
dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
dollar diplomacy — a government policy of promoting the business interests of its citizens in other countries.
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
domiciliary care — services, such as meals-on-wheels, health visiting, and home help, provided by a welfare agency for people in their own homes
dominical letter — any one of the letters from A to G used in church calendars to mark the Sundays throughout any particular year, serving primarily to aid in determining the date of Easter.
dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
drainage channel — a channel along which drained water flows away
dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
dredging machine — dredge1 (def 1).
driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
drug trafficking — smuggling illegal drugs
drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
drunkard's chair — a low, deep armchair of the 18th century.
dual carriageway — divided highway.
dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
ducktail-haircut — DA.
duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
dynamic analysis — (programming) Evaluation of a program based on its execution. Dynamic analysis relies on executing a piece of software with selected test data.
dynamic language — (language) (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
dynamic markings — directions and symbols used to indicate degrees of loudness
dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
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
ecclesiastically — of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
echocardiography — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
ecological niche — niche (def 3).
economic embargo — a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
economic migrant — person: seeks work abroad
ecotoxicological — Of or pertaining to ecotoxicology.
ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
eicosapentaenoic — Of or pertaining to eicosapentaenoic acid or its derivatives.
el camino bignum — (humour) /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
elected official — person voted into office
electric blanket — electrically-heated bedcover
electric furnace — any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current

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