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16-letter words containing c, a, s, i, v, e

  • conventionalists — Plural form of conventionalist.
  • conventionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conventionalize.
  • conversation pit — a usually sunken portion of a room or living area with chairs, sofas, etc., often grouped around a fireplace, where people can gather to talk.
  • conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • conversion ratio — (in a reactor) the number of fissionable atoms produced by each fissionable atom that is destroyed.
  • conversion table — a diagram which shows equivalent amounts in different measuring systems
  • creative commons — Sometimes, creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons; a creative commons license.
  • creative tension — a situation where disagreement or discord ultimately gives rise to better ideas or outcomes
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • devil's advocate — If you play devil's advocate in a discussion or debate, you express an opinion which you may not agree with but which is very different to what other people have been saying, in order to make the argument more interesting.
  • devonshire cream — clotted cream.
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
  • enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
  • evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • hearsay evidence — testimony based on what a witness has heard from another person rather than on direct personal knowledge or experience.
  • historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
  • hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
  • hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
  • inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
  • janet ip service — (networking)   (JIPS) Joint Academic NETwork Internet Protocol. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • lake havasu city — a city in W central Arizona.
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • machiavellianism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
  • manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
  • measuring device — gauge
  • medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
  • memorial service — ceremony held in commemoration
  • merchant service — A merchant service is a provider of credit card processing services.
  • microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
  • military service — compulsory period spent in the army
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
  • native americans — a person born in the United States.
  • 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
  • neoconservatives — Plural form of neoconservative.
  • non-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
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