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16-letter words containing c, l, o, s, e, d

  • devil's advocate — If you play devil's advocate in a discussion or debate, you express an opinion which you may not agree with but which is very different to what other people have been saying, in order to make the argument more interesting.
  • diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • disclosing agent — a vegetable dye, administered as a liquid or in tablet form (disclosing tablet), that stains plaque, making it readily apparent on the teeth
  • disconsolateness — (uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
  • displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
  • 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
  • dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • domain selection — (systems analysis)   The prioritisation and selection of one or more domains for which specific software reuse engineering projects are to be initiated.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
  • endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
  • endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
  • explosive device — a device, such as a bomb, that explodes or bursts loudly and with great force
  • false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
  • feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
  • fielder's choice — a fielder's attempt to put out a base runner rather than the batter when a play at first base would put out the batter.
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
  • gender selection — choosing the sex of a baby
  • gilt-edged stock — government stock on which interest payments will certainly be met and that will certainly be repaid at par on the due date
  • glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
  • golden delicious — a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.
  • golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
  • heralds' college — a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.
  • hold one's peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
  • household chores — tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home
  • hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
  • immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • leconte de lisle — Charles Marie [sharl ma-ree] /ʃarl maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1818–94, French poet.
  • level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
  • liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
  • malcontentedness — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
  • malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
  • medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
  • monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
  • moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
  • musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
  • mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
  • nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
  • oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
  • oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
  • on a world scale — in a way that involves the whole world
  • opposed-cylinder — (of an internal-combustion engine) having cylinders on opposite sides of the crankcase in the same plane
  • panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
  • pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
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