16-letter words containing c, i, r, o, u, m
- composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
- computer science — the study of computers and their application
- computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
- configurationism — Gestalt psychology
- consumer society — You can use consumer society to refer to a society where people think that spending money on goods and services is very important.
- continuous miner — continuous cutter.
- coram non judice — before a court lacking the authority to hear and decide the case in question.
- cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
- 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.
- 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.
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- 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.
- digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
- direction number — the component of a vector along a given line; any number proportional to the direction cosines of a given line.
- diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
- documentary film — factual, informative film
- 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
- electronic music — music: synthesized
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
- garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
- gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- heteromultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more different polypeptide chains.
- homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
- imago europe plc — A UK Internet provider. There sevice is called Imago On-line. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- immersion course — an educational course that teaches a foreign language, and in which the lessons are entirely conducted in the foreign language
- immunocompromise — (medicine) The state of having a compromised immune system.
- impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- intercommunicate — to communicate mutually, as people.
- interim accounts — accounts published in the course of the financial year
- intramolecularly — In an intramolecular manner; within a molecule.
- lithium chloride — a white, water-soluble, deliquescent, crystalline solid, LiCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of mineral water, especially lithia water, and as a flux in metallurgy.
- macro-linguistic — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
- macroinstruction — macro (def 5).
- macrolinguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
- magnetic equator — aclinic line.
- marriage customs — the acts that are traditionally done in connection with a marriage
- marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
- mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
- mercury chloride — mercuric chloride
- meretriciousness — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.