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

  • continental rise — the gently sloping transition between the continental slope and the deep ocean floor, usually characterized by coalescence of submarine alluvial fans.
  • controllableness — The state of being controllable; the capability of being controlled.
  • controversialism — The attitude or tendency to engage in controversy.
  • controversialist — a person who takes part in controversy or likes to do so
  • controversiality — The quality or state of being controversial.
  • controversialize — (transitive) To make to appear controversial.
  • contumeliousness — The state or quality of being contumelious.
  • conventionalised — to make conventional.
  • conventionalists — Plural form of conventionalist.
  • conventionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conventionalize.
  • conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • conversion table — a diagram which shows equivalent amounts in different measuring systems
  • convertible lens — a lens containing two or more elements that can be used individually or in combination to provide a variety of focal lengths.
  • cool one's heels — to wait or be kept waiting
  • coromandel coast — the SE coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, extending from Point Calimere to the mouth of the Krishna River
  • coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
  • cost-efficiently — cost-effective.
  • council of state — a council that deliberates on high-level policies of a government.
  • counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
  • counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
  • counterculturist — Counterculturalist.
  • counterproposals — Plural form of counterproposal.
  • crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • critical section — A non-re-entrant piece of code that can only be executed by one process at a time. It will usually terminate in bounded time and a process will only have to wait a bounded time to enter it. Some synchronisation mechanism is required at the entry and exit of the critical section to ensure exclusive use.
  • crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
  • curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
  • cut one's losses — to give up spending time, money, or energy on an unprofitable or unsuccessful activity
  • cycle of erosion — the hypothetical sequence of modifications to the earth's surface by erosion, from the original uplift of the land to the ultimate low plain, usually divided into the youthful, mature, and old stages
  • cytotechnologist — a technician who specializes in identifying cells and cellular abnormalities.
  • decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
  • 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.
  • declassification — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • demoiselle crane — a gray crane, Anthropoides virgo, of northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, having long, white plumes behind each eye.
  • descending colon — the last portion of the colon, beginning at the upper left abdomen in the region of the spleen and continuing downward along the left posterior wall to the sigmoid flexure.
  • 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
  • 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
  • domain selection — (systems analysis)   The prioritisation and selection of one or more domains for which specific software reuse engineering projects are to be initiated.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • economy of scale — a fall in average costs resulting from an increase in the scale of production
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
  • electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • electronic music — music: synthesized
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