16-letter words containing a, n, c, r
- collaborationist — A collaborationist government or individual is one that helps or gives support to the enemy during the war.
- colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
- column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
- combination door — an outside door having a frame into which different types of panels can be inserted, as a screen for summer or storm sash for winter.
- combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
- combination room — (at Cambridge University) a common room
- come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
- commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
- commensurateness — The state or quality of being commensurate.
- common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
- common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
- common-or-garden — You can use common-or-garden to describe something you think is ordinary and not special in any way.
- communitarianism — A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities.
- 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
- companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
- compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
- compartmentalize — To compartmentalize something means to divide it into separate sections.
- compartmentation — subdivision of a hull into spaces enclosed by watertight bulkheads and sometimes by watertight decks.
- complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
- compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
- concertina crash — a collision in which vehicle after vehicle hits the one ahead in a sequence of events triggered by the first car crash
- concertina table — an extensible table having a hinged double top falling onto a hinged frame that unfolds like an accordion when pulled out.
- conciliatoriness — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
- concurrent clean — (language) An alternative name for Clean 1.0.
- 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.
- confederationist — A supporter of confederation.
- conference table — a large table, often rectangular, around which a number of people may be seated, as when holding a conference
- configurationism — Gestalt psychology
- confrontationist — a person who confronts opposition, especially aggressively.
- 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.
- conservation law — any law stating that some quantity or property remains constant during and after an interaction or process, as conservation of charge or conservation of linear momentum.
- conservationists — Plural form of conservationist.
- conservative jew — a Jew who adheres for the most part to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism with the reservation that, taking into account contemporary conditions, certain modifications or rejections are permissible.
- conservativeness — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
- conspiratorially — the act of conspiring.
- constant dollars — a dollar valued according to its purchasing power in an arbitrarily set year and then adjusted for price changes in other years so that real purchasing power can be compared by giving prices as they would presumably be in the base year.
- constant lambert — Constant [kon-stuh nt] /ˈkɒn stənt/ (Show IPA), 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
- constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
- constructionally — In a constructional manner.
- consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- contact printing — the process of making contact prints.
- container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
- containerization — a method of shipping freight in relatively uniform, sealed, movable containers whose contents do not have to be unloaded at each point of transfer. Compare break-bulk (def 1).
- 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.
- content curation — the selection, organization, and presentation of (usually) online material, either manually or by a computer program