16-letter words containing c, i, n, e, m
- consumption weed — groundsel tree.
- contact magazine — a magazine in which to place adverts to make contacts, esp sexual ones
- contemporariness — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contemptibleness — The state or quality of being contemptible.
- continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
- continuous miner — continuous cutter.
- controversialism — The attitude or tendency to engage in controversy.
- contumaciousness — The property of being contumacious.
- contumeliousness — The state or quality of being contumelious.
- coping mechanism — something a person does to deal with a difficult situation
- copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
- coram non judice — before a court lacking the authority to hear and decide the case in question.
- costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
- countermigration — a migration in the opposite direction.
- counterterrorism — Counterterrorism consists of activities that are intended to prevent terrorist acts or to get rid of terrorist groups.
- creative commons — Sometimes, creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons; a creative commons license.
- 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.
- crime of passion — a crime, often a murder, committed from passion, esp sexual passion
- crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
- 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.
- criminal offence — an action which is punishable under the law
- cross one's mind — to occur to one briefly or suddenly
- crosscontaminate — Alternative spelling of cross-contaminate.
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
- data compression — the act of compressing.
- database machine — (hardware) A computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel. This contrasts with a database server, which is a computer in a local area network that holds a database. The database machine is tightly coupled to the main CPU, whereas the database server is loosely coupled via the network.
- 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 currency — a system of currency in which the monetary units are parts or powers of ten
- 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.
- decision problem — (theory) A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
- 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.
- dehumidification — Dehumidification is the removal of vapor from a gas-vapor mixture.
- dementia praecox — schizophrenia
- demoiselle crane — a gray crane, Anthropoides virgo, of northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, having long, white plumes behind each eye.
- devonshire cream — clotted cream.
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- dialysis machine — device: kidney treatment
- 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
- dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
- direct marketing — marketing direct to the consumer, as by direct mail or coupon advertising.
- direction number — the component of a vector along a given line; any number proportional to the direction cosines of a given line.
- disfranchisement — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
- 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
- document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
- documentary film — factual, informative film