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16-letter words containing c, l, u, m

  • circumscriptible — Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.
  • circumstantially — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
  • clbuttic mistake — the humorous effect created by anti-obscenity filters that automatically replace offensive words in online articles with more acceptable variants
  • cleanup campaign — an organized programme to clean up a place, typically organized at a local or regional level
  • clearance volume — The clearance volume is the volume remaining above the piston of an engine when it reaches top dead center.
  • clootie dumpling — a boiled suet pudding containing dried fruits
  • closed community — a plant community that does not allow for further colonization, all the available niches being occupied
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
  • come full circle — to arrive back at one's starting point
  • command language — the language used to access a computer system
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • community school — a school offering some nonacademic activities related to life in a particular community and often serving as a community centre
  • companion volume — a book that complements another on a related subject, usually by the same author
  • complex pendulum — a complex structure mounted so that it can swing freely under the influence of gravity
  • complicitousness — (rare, possibly nonstandard) Complicity.
  • compute parallel — (language)   (Compel) The first single-assignment language.
  • conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
  • consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
  • consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • contumeliousness — The state or quality of being contumelious.
  • 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.
  • criminal assault — a punishable offence of attempting to harm another person through physical contact
  • criminal justice — the system of law enforcement, involving police, lawyers, courts, and corrections, used for all stages of criminal proceedings and punishment.
  • cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
  • cuban royal palm — a feather palm, Roystonea regia, of tropical America, having a trunk that is swollen in the middle, drooping leaves from 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 meters) long, and small, round fruit.
  • cumberland sauce — a cold sauce made from orange and lemon juice, port, and redcurrant jelly, served with ham, game, or other meat
  • curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
  • curriculum vitae — A curriculum vitae is the same as a CV.
  • customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
  • decimal currency — a system of currency in which the monetary units are parts or powers of ten
  • digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
  • diplomatic pouch — a sealed mailbag containing diplomatic correspondence that is sent free of inspection between a foreign office and its diplomatic or consular post abroad or from one such post to another.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • 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
  • diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • dynamic language — (language)   (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
  • el camino bignum — (humour)   /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
  • electronic music — music: synthesized
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • 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.
  • flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
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