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16-letter words containing a, t, o, m, i, c

  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • municipalization — (economics) The transfer of corporations or other assets to municipal ownership.
  • musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
  • mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system)   (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
  • mutual induction — the production of an electromotive force in one circuit by a change in current in another circuit.
  • mutual recursion — recursion
  • national costume — traditional dress
  • native companion — brolga.
  • neo-conservatism — (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies
  • nominal sentence — a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.
  • non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
  • non-confirmation — the act of confirming.
  • non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
  • non-consummation — the act of consummating; completion.
  • non-emancipation — the act of emancipating.
  • non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • noncommunication — Absence of communication; failure to communicate.
  • noncommunicative — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • noncompassionate — Not compassionate.
  • nonharmonic tone — a tone sounding with a chord of which it is not a chord tone.
  • nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
  • not miss a trick — to be very alert
  • occipitotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the occiput and temporal lobe.
  • ohmic resistance — resistance (def 3a).
  • once upon a time — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
  • oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
  • onomatopoeically — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
  • operating income — revenue from business operations after operating expenses are deducted from gross income.
  • ophthalmological — Pertaining to ophthalmology.
  • optical computer — an experimental computer that uses photons rather than electrical impulses to process data a thousand times faster than with conventional integrated circuits.
  • orthoformic acid — a hypothetical acid, HC(OH) 3 , known only in the form of its esters.
  • orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
  • over-communicate — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
  • over-romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
  • overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
  • overcompensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
  • overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
  • oxycalcium light — calcium light.
  • palaeolithic man — any of various primitive types of man, such as Neanderthal man and Java man, who lived in the Palaeolithic
  • paleoclimatology — the branch of paleogeography dealing with the study of paleoclimates.
  • palmitoleic acid — a colorless, unsaturated fatty acid, C 1 6 H 3 0 O 2 , occurring in oils and fats of plants and animals.
  • peano arithmetic — (mathematics)   Giuseppe Peano's system for representing natural numbers inductively using only two symbols, "0" (zero) and "S" (successor). This system could be expressed as a recursive data type with the following Haskell definition: data Peano = Zero | Succ Peano The number three, usually written "SSS0", would be Succ (Succ (Succ Zero)). Addition of Peano numbers can be expressed as a simple syntactic transformation: plus Zero n = n plus (Succ m) n = Succ (plus m n) (1995-03-28)
  • pectoralis major — the larger of the two large chest muscles that assist in movements of the shoulder and upper arm
  • pectoralis minor — the smaller of the two large chest muscles that assist in movements of the shoulder and upper arm
  • phantasmagorical — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
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