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

  • creature comfort — anything providing bodily comfort, as food, clothing, or shelter
  • creole continuum — a range of language varieties in an area undergoing decreolization showing a continuous gradation from forms more like the underlying creole to those approaching the standard language.
  • crested screamer — a goose-like aquatic bird, Chauna torquata, of the family Anhimidae of tropical and subtropical South America, having a crest on the back of its head: order Anseriformes (ducks, geese, etc)
  • crime prevention — official and police policies to prevent crime
  • criminal justice — the system of law enforcement, involving police, lawyers, courts, and corrections, used for all stages of criminal proceedings and punishment.
  • cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
  • crosscontaminate — Alternative spelling of cross-contaminate.
  • cry for the moon — to desire the unattainable
  • curriculum vitae — A curriculum vitae is the same as a CV.
  • customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
  • customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
  • customer service — Customer service refers to the way that companies behave towards their customers, for example how well they treat them.
  • customer support — Customer support is a service provided to help customers resolve any technical problems that they may have with a product or service.
  • dacryocystectomy — The surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • dc potentiometer — A DC potentiometer is a potentiometer in which the supply is a battery and the balance is under direct current conditions.
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • decimal fraction — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
  • defective number — a positive number that is greater than the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 10, which is greater than the sum of 1, 2, and 5.
  • dementia praecox — schizophrenia
  • democratic party — (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840
  • dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
  • diacetylmorphine — heroin.
  • dictionary flame — [Usenet] An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer argument over definitions to disputes about reality. Compare spelling flame.
  • dictionary-maker — a person who compiles a dictionary
  • digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • direct democracy — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
  • direct marketing — marketing direct to the consumer, as by direct mail or coupon advertising.
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • direction number — the component of a vector along a given line; any number proportional to the direction cosines of a given line.
  • discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
  • disfranchisement — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
  • diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • dome of the rock — a shrine in Jerusalem at the site from which Muhammad ascended through the seven heavens to the throne of God: built on the site of the Jewish Temple.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • domestic service — the work of household servants
  • dominical letter — any one of the letters from A to G used in church calendars to mark the Sundays throughout any particular year, serving primarily to aid in determining the date of Easter.
  • dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
  • e-carrier system — (communications)   A series of digital transmission formats promulgated by the ITU and used outside of North America and Japan. The basic unit of the E-carrier system is the DS0, which has a transmission rate of 64 Kbps, and is commonly used for one voice circuit. The E1 format consists of 32 DS0 channels, for a total capacity of 2.048 Mbps. E2, E3, E4, and E5 circuits carry multiple E1 channels multiplexed, resulting in transmission rates of up to 565.148 Mbps. The E-carrier system is similar to, and compatible with, the T-carrier system used in North America, but has higher capacity since it uses out-of-band signaling in contrast to the in-band signaling or bit-robbing used in the T-system.
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • economic migrant — person: seeks work abroad
  • electrical storm — thunder, lightning
  • electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
  • electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
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