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16-letter words containing c, a, n, t, i, e

  • nonharmonic tone — a tone sounding with a chord of which it is not a chord tone.
  • nonreciprocating — Not reciprocating; not responding in kind.
  • nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
  • nuclear reaction — reaction (def 8).
  • nucleating agent — a substance used to seed clouds to control rainfall and fog formation
  • nuncupative will — a will made by the oral and unwritten declaration of the testator, valid only in special circumstances.
  • nutcracker suite — a ballet and concert suite (1892) arranged by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky from his orchestral work for a ballet, The Nutcracker.
  • objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • occasional table — a small table with no regular use
  • occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
  • octanedioic acid — a colourless crystalline dicarboxylic acid found in suberin and castor oil and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: HOOC(CH2)6COOH
  • of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
  • 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.
  • one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics)   A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
  • 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.
  • open punctuation — punctuation characterized by sparing use of stops, esp of the comma
  • operating income — revenue from business operations after operating expenses are deducted from gross income.
  • organoleptically — In an organoleptic manner.
  • osculating plane — the plane containing the circle of curvature of a point on a given curve.
  • over-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • over-communicate — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
  • over-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • over-expectation — the act or the state of expecting: to wait in expectation.
  • over-romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • over-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
  • overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
  • overcautiousness — the quality or state of being too cautious, wary, or careful
  • 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.
  • overenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • packet switching — a method of efficient data transmission whereby the initial message is broken into relatively small units, or packets, that are routed independently and subsequently reassembled.
  • packet-switching — a method of efficient data transmission whereby the initial message is broken into relatively small units, or packets, that are routed independently and subsequently reassembled.
  • paediatric nurse — a nurse who specializes in the care of children
  • pain in the neck — source of annoyance
  • palaeolithic man — any of various primitive types of man, such as Neanderthal man and Java man, who lived in the Palaeolithic
  • pancreatic juice — a thick, colorless, very alkaline fluid secreted by the pancreas, containing enzymes that break down protein, fat, and starch.
  • pantothenic acid — a hydroxy acid, C 9 H 1 7 O 5 N, found in plant and animal tissues, rice, bran, etc., that is part of the B complex of vitamins and is essential for cell growth.
  • pattern matching — 1. A function is defined to take arguments of a particular type, form or value. When applying the function to its actual arguments it is necessary to match the type, form or value of the actual arguments against the formal arguments in some definition. For example, the function length [] = 0 length (x:xs) = 1 + length xs uses pattern matching in its argument to distinguish a null list from a non-null one. There are well known algorithm for translating pattern matching into conditional expressions such as "if" or "case". E.g. the above function could be transformed to 2. Descriptive of a type of language or utility such as awk or Perl which is suited to searching for strings or patterns in input data, usually using some kind of regular expression.
  • pattern practice — (in foreign-language learning) a technique for practicing a linguistic structure in which students repeat a sentence or other structure, each time substituting a new element, such as a new verb, as directed by the teacher, or transforming the original structure, as in changing a statement to a question.
  • peace initiative — the first or opening move in negotiating an end to conflict or negotiating peace
  • 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 minor — the smaller of the two large chest muscles that assist in movements of the shoulder and upper arm
  • pentatonic scale — a scale having five tones to an octave, as one having intervals that correspond to the five black keys of a piano octave.
  • percentage point — difference: one per cent
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