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16-letter words containing c, a, t, m, e

  • self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
  • self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
  • semantic tableau — a method of demonstrating the consistency or otherwise of a set of statements by constructing a diagrammatic representation of all the circumstances that satisfy the set of statements
  • semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • semidomesticated — living in a state of partial domestication.
  • senate committee — a committee formed from the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • situation comedy — a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
  • smack in the eye — a snub or setback
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • sodium cyclamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, NaC 6 NH 1 2 SO 3 , that has been used as a sweetening agent: banned by the FDA in 1970.
  • sonata da camera — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, usually consisting of a series of dances.
  • source materials — publications from which information is obtained
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • stamp collection — the act of collecting postage stamps as a hobby
  • state capitalism — a form of capitalism in which the central government controls most of the capital, industry, natural resources, etc.
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • steam locomotive — a locomotive moved by steam power generated in its own boiler: still in commercial use in nations that have not yet converted entirely to diesel and electric locomotives.
  • steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
  • stick out a mile — to be extremely obvious
  • stock management — the monitoring and control of goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available at all times
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • symmetric matrix — a matrix with the lower-left half equal to the mirror image of the upper-right half; a matrix that is its own transpose.
  • syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • systematic error — a persistent error that cannot be attributed to chance.
  • systemic grammar — a grammar in which description is founded on the relationships among the various units at different ranks of a language, and in which language is viewed as a system of meaning-creating choices
  • t-carrier system — (communications)   A series of wideband digital data transmission formats originally developed by the Bell System and used in North America and Japan. The basic unit of the T-carrier system is the DS0, which has a transmission rate of 64 Kbps, and is commonly used for one voice circuit. Originally the 1.544 megabit per second T1 format carried 24 pulse-code modulated, time-division multiplexed speech signals each encoded in 64 kilobit per second streams, leaving 8 kilobits per second of framing information which facilitates the synchronisation and demultiplexing at the receiver. T2 and T3 circuits channels carry multiple T1 channels multiplexed, resulting in transmission rates of up to 44.736 Mbps. The T-carrier system uses in-band signaling, resulting in lower transmission rates than the E-carrier system. It uses a restored polar signal with 303-type data stations. Asynchronous signals can be transmitted via a standard which encodes each change of level into three bits; two which indicate the time (within the current synchronous frame) at which the transition occurred, and the third which indicates the direction of the transition. Although wasteful of line bandwidth, such use is usually only over small distances. T1 lines are made free of direct current signal components by in effect capacitor coupling the signal at the transmitter and restoring that lost component with a "slicer" at the receiver, leading to the description "restored polar".
  • tabernacle frame — a frame, especially of the 18th century, around a doorway, niche, etc., that suggests a small building, characteristically one with a pediment and two pilasters on a base.
  • tandem computers — (company)   A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
  • teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
  • teaching machine — a mechanical, electrical, or other automatic device that presents the user with items of information in planned sequence, registers his or her response to each item, and immediately indicates the acceptability of each response.
  • telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • ten commandments — Bible: instructions given to Moses
  • tenant in common — one of two or more persons who hold property by tenancy in common.
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • the caine mutiny — a novel by Herman Wouk, later made into a film
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
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