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

  • nassella tussock — type of tussock grass
  • national costume — traditional dress
  • national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
  • natural resource — a naturally occurring source of wealth, as land or water.
  • nephrocalcinosis — (medicine) The deposition of calcium salts in the renal parenchyma due to hyperparathyroidism.
  • nicoya peninsula — a peninsula in NW Costa Rica, on the Pacific Ocean.
  • nominal sentence — a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.
  • non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
  • nonrecourse loan — a loan for which the borrower cannot be held responsible for any amount in excess of the security for the loan, even if the value of such security falls below the level it had or that had been anticipated for it at the time of the loan.
  • north charleston — a city in SE South Carolina.
  • nuclear emulsion — a photographic emulsion in the form of a thick block, used to record the tracks of elementary particles.
  • oak leaf cluster — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a small bronze twig bearing four oak leaves and three acorns, worn on the ribbon of another decoration for valor, wounds, or distinguished service to signify a second award of the same medal.
  • objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
  • occasional table — a small table with no regular use
  • oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
  • on a world scale — in a way that involves the whole world
  • open scholarship — a scholarship which anyone can apply for
  • optical tweezers — a laser device used to study, manipulate, or trap a microscopic object, as a microorganism or cell, with nanometer precision.
  • osculating plane — the plane containing the circle of curvature of a point on a given curve.
  • osteoarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the study of bones found at archaeological sites
  • over-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • pascal's theorem — the theorem that the lines joining adjacent vertices of a hexagon intersect the same straight line if alternate vertices lie on two intersecting straight lines.
  • pectoralis major — the larger of the two large chest muscles that assist in movements of the shoulder and upper arm
  • pectoralis minor — the smaller of the two large chest muscles that assist in movements of the shoulder and upper arm
  • pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
  • pelican crossing — place to cross road
  • pentatonic scale — a scale having five tones to an octave, as one having intervals that correspond to the five black keys of a piano octave.
  • people's charter — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
  • personal effects — belongings
  • personality cult — deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader
  • personnel agency — an agency for placing employable persons in jobs; employment agency.
  • place of worship — religious house: church, temple
  • plainclothes man — a detective or police officer who wears civilian clothes while on duty
  • play one's cards — to carry out one's plans; take action (esp in the phrase play one's cards right)
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • poisoned chalice — If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
  • police constable — police officer
  • policy statement — a declaration of the plans and intentions of an organization or government
  • political system — a coordinated set of principles, laws, ideas, and procedures relating to a particular form of government, or the form of government itself: Democracy is a political system in which citizens govern themselves.
  • polycondensation — formation of a polymer by chemical condensation with the elimination of a small molecule, such as water.
  • postencephalitic — inflammation of the substance of the brain.
  • practical reason — (in Kantian ethics) reason applied to the problem of action and choice, especially in ethical matters.
  • pre-solicitation — the act of soliciting.
  • processing plant — a factory where raw materials are treated or prepared by a special method, esp one where food is treated in order to preserve it
  • pseudo-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • pseudo-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
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