16-letter words containing c, l, o, a, m
- electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
- encephalomalacia — (medicine) A localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation.
- exclamation mark — (character) The character "!" with ASCII code 33. Common names: bang; pling; excl (/eks'kl/); shriek; ITU-T: exclamation mark, exclamation point (US). Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; soldier; INTERCAL: spark-spot. The Commonwealth Hackish, "pling", is common among Acorn Archimedes owners. Bang is more common in the USA. The occasional CMU usage, "shriek", is also used by APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists. Exclamation mark is used in C and elsewhere as the logical negation operation (NOT).
- exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
- exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
- extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
- falsificationism — (epistemology) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
- family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
- four-course meal — A four-course meal is a meal that consists of four parts served one after the other.
- garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
- general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
- geometrical pace — a pace of 5 feet (1.5 meters), representing the distance between the places at which the same foot rests on the ground in walking.
- geomorphological — Of or pertaining to geomorphology.
- george mcclellan — George Brinton [brin-tn] /ˈbrɪn tn/ (Show IPA), 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War.
- global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
- glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
- haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
- hemolytic anemia — an anemic condition characterized by the destruction of red blood cells: seen in some drug reactions and in certain infectious and hereditary disorders.
- hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
- homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
- hyperaccumulator — a plant that absorbs toxins, such as heavy metals, to a greater concentration than that in the soil in which it is growing
- ice-cream parlor — an establishment serving ice cream, sodas, etc., from a soda fountain.
- ice-cream social — a social gathering, usually to raise money for a local church or school, where ice cream is the principal refreshment.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- imago europe plc — A UK Internet provider. There sevice is called Imago On-line. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- intracytoplasmic — Located in the cytoplasm of a cell.
- intramolecularly — In an intramolecular manner; within a molecule.
- kilogram calorie — kilocalorie.
- knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
- laodicea ad mare — the chief port of Syria, in the northwest: tobacco industry. Pop: 486 000 (2005 est) (Latin name)
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
- limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
- limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
- local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
- locomotor ataxia — tabes dorsalis.
- long-tail claims — Long-tail claims are claims that are made or settled a long time after the insurance policy has expired.
- loop combination — A program transformation where the bodies of two loops are merged into one thus reducing the overhead of manipulating and testing the control variable and branching. Further optimisation of the merged code may then become possible. In horizontal loop combination the bodies of the loops are largely independent so only the loop overhead is saved. Vertical loop combination applies where the results of the first loop are used by the second. Combining the two allows the intermediate results to be used immediately (in registers) rather than requiring them to be stored in an array. The functional equivalent of horizontal and vertical loop combination are tupling and fusion.
- lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
- lourenco marques — former name of Maputo.
- luminosity class — a classification of stars of a given spectral type according to their luminosity, breaking them down into dwarfs, giants, and supergiants.