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16-letter words containing c, o, i, n

  • confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
  • confederationist — A supporter of confederation.
  • confidence level — a measure of the reliability of a result. A confidence level of 95 per cent or 0.95 means that there is a probability of at least 95 per cent that the result is reliable
  • confidence trick — A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.
  • confidentialness — The state or quality of being confidential.
  • configurationism — Gestalt psychology
  • conflict of laws — dissimilarity or discrepancy between the laws of different legal orders, such as states or nations, with regard to the applicable legal rules and principles in a matter that each legal order wishes to regulate.
  • confrontationist — a person who confronts opposition, especially aggressively.
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • congressionalist — of or relating to a congress.
  • conic projection — a map projection on which the earth is shown as projected onto a cone with its apex over one of the poles and with parallels of latitude radiating from this apex
  • conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
  • consanguineously — In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.
  • conscience money — money paid voluntarily to compensate for dishonesty, esp money paid voluntarily for taxes formerly evaded
  • conscientization — (sociology, education) A social concept, grounded in Marxist critical theory, that focuses on achieving an in-depth understanding of the world, allowing for the perception and exposure of perceived social and political contradictions.
  • conscionableness — the state of being conscionable
  • consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
  • consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
  • consequentialist — the theory that human actions derive their moral worth solely from their outcomes or consequences.
  • consequentiality — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
  • conservation law — any law stating that some quantity or property remains constant during and after an interaction or process, as conservation of charge or conservation of linear momentum.
  • conservationists — Plural form of conservationist.
  • conservative jew — a Jew who adheres for the most part to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism with the reservation that, taking into account contemporary conditions, certain modifications or rejections are permissible.
  • conservativeness — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • consignment note — a document containing particulars of goods for shipment and which provides proof that the consignment has been received by the carrier for delivery
  • conspicuity tape — a highly reflective strip or tape used on a vehicle, clothing, etc., to make it more visible in low light.
  • conspiratorially — the act of conspiring.
  • constant folding — (compiler)   A compiler optimisation technique where constant subexpressions are evaluated at compile time. This is usually only applied to built-in numerical and boolean operators whereas partial evaluation is more general in that expressions involving user-defined functions may also be evaluated at compile time.
  • constant mapping — (networking)   A precursor to ARP used by some TCP software in which the destination Ethernet address is constructed from the top 24 bits of the source Ethernet address followed by the low 24 bits of the (class A) destination Internet address. For this scheme the top 24 bits of the Ethernet address must be the same on all hosts on the network.
  • constitutionally — in composition or physique
  • constitutionists — Plural form of constitutionist.
  • constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
  • constructibility — The condition of being constructible.
  • constructionally — In a constructional manner.
  • constructionists — Plural form of constructionist.
  • constructiveness — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • consubstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of consubstantiate.
  • consulting hours — the hours during which health practitioners are available for consultation
  • consumer society — You can use consumer society to refer to a society where people think that spending money on goods and services is very important.
  • consumption weed — groundsel tree.
  • contact magazine — a magazine in which to place adverts to make contacts, esp sexual ones
  • contact printing — the process of making contact prints.
  • contagious magic — magic that attempts to affect a person through something once connected with him or her, as a shirt once worn by the person or a footprint left in the sand; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that things once in contact are in some way permanently so, however separated physically they may subsequently become.
  • container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
  • containerization — a method of shipping freight in relatively uniform, sealed, movable containers whose contents do not have to be unloaded at each point of transfer. Compare break-bulk (def 1).
  • contemporariness — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • contemptibleness — The state or quality of being contemptible.
  • content analysis — analysis to determine the meaning, purpose, or effect of any type of communication, as literature, newspapers, or broadcasts, by studying and evaluating the details, innuendoes, and implications of the content, recurrent themes, etc.
  • content curation — the selection, organization, and presentation of (usually) online material, either manually or by a computer program
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