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16-letter words containing c, e, r, m, o, n

  • second messenger — any of various intracellular chemical substances, as cyclic AMP, that transmit and amplify the messages delivered by a first messenger to specific receptors on the cell surface.
  • second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • secondary modern — Secondary moderns were schools which existed until recently in Britain for children aged between about eleven and sixteen, where more attention was paid to practical skills and less to academic study than in a grammar school.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • 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.
  • solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • sonata da camera — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, usually consisting of a series of dances.
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • tandem computers — (company)   A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
  • telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • three-card monte — a gambling game in which the players are shown three cards and bet that they can identify one particular card of the three, as stipulated by the dealer, after the cards have been moved around face down by the dealer.
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • to compare notes — If you compare notes with someone on a particular subject, you talk to them and find out whether their opinion, information, or experience is the same as yours.
  • transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
  • trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • undercompensated — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • underconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
  • uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
  • vertebral column — spinal column.
  • voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
  • well-recommended — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • without ceremony — in a casual or informal manner
  • yeoman's service — good, useful, or workmanlike service: His trusty sword did him yeoman's service.
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