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16-letter words containing c, o, e, t

  • nondeterministic — the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws.
  • nondiscretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • nonfiction novel — a narrative dealing with real events and people, written in the form of a novel.
  • nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
  • nonharmonic tone — a tone sounding with a chord of which it is not a chord tone.
  • nonreciprocating — Not reciprocating; not responding in kind.
  • north charleston — a city in SE South Carolina.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.
  • nuclear magneton — a unit of magnetic moment, used to measure proton spin and approximately equal to 1/1836 Bohr magneton.
  • nuclear reaction — reaction (def 8).
  • nueva ocotepeque — a town in W Honduras.
  • numbered account — a bank account whose owner is identified by a number for the purpose of preserving anonymity.
  • 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 danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
  • objective spirit — the human spirit, insofar as it has become capable of a rational identification of its individual self with the community of other spirits but is not yet capable of the identification with the absolute idea that characterizes the absolute spirit.
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • obtuse bisectrix — See under bisectrix (def 1).
  • occasional table — a small table with no regular use
  • occipitotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the occiput and temporal lobe.
  • occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
  • ocellated turkey — a wild turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, of Yucatán, Belize, and Guatemala, typically having green, blue, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and eyelike spots on the tail.
  • octanedioic acid — a colourless crystalline dicarboxylic acid found in suberin and castor oil and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: HOOC(CH2)6COOH
  • october surprise — a major event, occurring shortly before a presidential election, which influences the result
  • oculomotor nerve — either one of the third pair of cranial nerves, consisting chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.
  • odontoid process — the toothlike upward projection at the back of the second vertebra of the neck
  • oesophagogastric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the oesophagus and the stomach.
  • of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
  • ohmic resistance — resistance (def 3a).
  • old north french — the dialect of Old French spoken in northern France. Abbreviation: ONF.
  • oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
  • on the back foot — at a disadvantage; outmanoeuvred or outclassed by an opponent
  • on the scrapheap — (of people or things) having outlived their usefulness
  • onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
  • once upon a time — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
  • one's cup of tea — the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
  • one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics)   A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
  • oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
  • onomatopoeically — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
  • opaque projector — a machine for projecting opaque objects, as books, on a screen, by means of reflected light.
  • open punctuation — punctuation characterized by sparing use of stops, esp of the comma
  • operating income — revenue from business operations after operating expenses are deducted from gross income.
  • optical computer — an experimental computer that uses photons rather than electrical impulses to process data a thousand times faster than with conventional integrated circuits.
  • optical tweezers — a laser device used to study, manipulate, or trap a microscopic object, as a microorganism or cell, with nanometer precision.
  • orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
  • ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
  • organoleptically — In an organoleptic manner.
  • orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
  • osculating plane — the plane containing the circle of curvature of a point on a given curve.
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