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16-letter words containing c, a, s

  • indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
  • inexplicableness — The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable.
  • insulin reaction — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
  • insurance broker — person who sells insurance policies
  • insurance policy — contract that insures sth
  • insurance scheme — a scheme that provides insurance
  • integer specrate — SPECrate_int92
  • intellectualised — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualise.
  • intellectualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intellectualize.
  • intellectualness — Quality of being intellectual.
  • intensifications — Plural form of intensification.
  • inter-comparison — the act of comparing.
  • interconsonantal — immediately following a consonant and preceding a consonant, as the a in pat.
  • intercrystalline — situated or passing between the crystals of a substance.
  • interculturalism — The philosophy of exchanges between cultural groups within a society.
  • interim accounts — accounts published in the course of the financial year
  • internal capsule — a broad band of white fibres near the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
  • intracytoplasmic — Located in the cytoplasm of a cell.
  • intraocular lens — a plastic lens implanted surgically to replace the eye's natural crystalline lens, usually because the natural lens has developed a cataract.
  • intrinsic factor — a glycoprotein, secreted by the gastric mucosa, that is involved in the intestinal absorption of vitamin B 12 .
  • intrinsic parity — parity1 (def 4b).
  • inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
  • isophthalic acid — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 8 H 6 O 2 , the meta isomer of phthalic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and plasticizers.
  • isoplastic graft — syngraft.
  • it's no accident — You begin a sentence with 'it's no accident' if you want to suggest that something was done deliberately or has a logical explanation, although it might give the impression of having happened by chance.
  • jacobson's organ — either of a pair of blind, tubular, olfactory sacs in the roof of the mouth, vestigial in humans but well-developed in many animals, especially reptiles.
  • jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
  • jacques cousteau — Jacques Yves [zhahk eev] /ʒɑk iv/ (Show IPA), 1910–97, French naval officer, author, and underseas explorer: developed the Aqua-Lung.
  • janet ip service — (networking)   (JIPS) Joint Academic NETwork Internet Protocol. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • japanese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
  • javaserver faces — (programming, Java)   (JSF) A system for building web applications by assembling reusable user interface components in a web page, connecting these components to a data source and passing client events to server handlers.
  • jerusalem cherry — an Old World plant, Solanum pseudocapsicum, of the nightshade family, having white flowers and bearing cherrylike scarlet or yellow fruits, cultivated as an ornamental.
  • job satisfaction — Job satisfaction is the pleasure that you get from doing your job.
  • john of damascus — Saint, a.d. c675–749, priest, theologian, and scholar of the Eastern Church, born in Damascus.
  • journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
  • judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • judas maccabaeus — Judas or Judah [joo-duh] /ˈdʒu də/ (Show IPA), ("the Hammer") died c. 160 b.c, Judean patriot, one of the Maccabees: military leader 166–160 (son of Mattathias).
  • jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
  • kangaroo closure — a form of closure in which the chair or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others
  • kaposi's sarcoma — a form of skin cancer found in Africans and more recently in victims of AIDS
  • keep one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
  • keyman insurance — life insurance taken out by a business firm on an essential or very important employee, with the firm as beneficiary.
  • khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
  • kirchhoff's laws — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
  • know one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
  • krebs urea cycle — urea cycle.
  • kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
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