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16-letter words containing c, e, a, s, l

  • cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
  • council of state — a council that deliberates on high-level policies of a government.
  • counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
  • counterproposals — Plural form of counterproposal.
  • court of appeals — A Court of Appeals is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
  • cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
  • crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • criminal justice — the system of law enforcement, involving police, lawyers, courts, and corrections, used for all stages of criminal proceedings and punishment.
  • critical density — the density of matter that would be required to halt the expansion of the universe
  • critical section — A non-re-entrant piece of code that can only be executed by one process at a time. It will usually terminate in bounded time and a process will only have to wait a bounded time to enter it. Some synchronisation mechanism is required at the entry and exit of the critical section to ensure exclusive use.
  • crystal detector — a demodulator, used esp in microwave circuits and in early radio receivers, consisting of a thin metal wire in point contact with a semiconductor crystal
  • crystalline lens — a biconvex transparent elastic structure in the eye situated behind the iris, serving to focus images on the retina
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • cumberland sauce — a cold sauce made from orange and lemon juice, port, and redcurrant jelly, served with ham, game, or other meat
  • curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • dead sea scrolls — a collection of manuscripts in Hebrew and Aramaic discovered in caves near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956. They are widely held to have been written between about 100 bc and 68 ad and provide important biblical evidence
  • decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
  • declassification — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
  • delaying tactics — techniques used to delay sth
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • demoiselle crane — a gray crane, Anthropoides virgo, of northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, having long, white plumes behind each eye.
  • dental insurance — Dental insurance is insurance that pays for treatment by a dentist.
  • dependent clause — a clause that cannot function syntactically as a complete sentence by itself but has a nominal, adjectival, or adverbial function within a larger sentence; subordinate clause (Ex.: She will visit us if she can.)
  • dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
  • 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.
  • diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
  • dialysis machine — device: kidney treatment
  • diesel-hydraulic — a locomotive driven by a diesel engine through hydraulic transmission and torque converters
  • digital research — (company)   The company which developed CP/M, the operating system used on many of the first generation 8-bit microprocessor-based personal computers. Digital Research also produced DR-DOS. Address: Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • disclosing agent — a vegetable dye, administered as a liquid or in tablet form (disclosing tablet), that stains plaque, making it readily apparent on the teeth
  • disconsolateness — (uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
  • displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
  • displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
  • distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
  • dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • domain selection — (systems analysis)   The prioritisation and selection of one or more domains for which specific software reuse engineering projects are to be initiated.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • easter sepulcher — sepulcher (def 2).
  • easter-sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
  • ecclesiastically — of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
  • eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
  • economy of scale — a fall in average costs resulting from an increase in the scale of production
  • electrical storm — thunder, lightning
  • electroacoustics — a branch of acoustics that deals with the conversion of sound into electricity and vice versa, as in a microphone or a speaker
  • electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
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