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

  • man of the cloth — a clergyman or other ecclesiastic.
  • maritime command — the naval branch of the Canadian armed forces
  • mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
  • mechanochemistry — the field of chemistry that deals with the direct conversion of chemical into mechanical energy.
  • mechanoreception — The action of a mechanoreceptor.
  • mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
  • mechanoreceptors — Plural form of mechanoreceptor.
  • megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
  • melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • memoria technica — a method or device for assisting the memory
  • mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
  • merchant account — A merchant account is a type of bank account that allows a company to accept credit cards.
  • meretriciousness — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
  • mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
  • microconstituent — a microscopically small constituent of a metal or alloy.
  • microcrystalline — minutely crystalline; composed of microscopic crystals.
  • microelectronics — the technology dealing with the design, development, and construction of electronic systems utilizing extremely small elements, especially solid-state devices employing microminiaturization.
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • microenterprises — Plural form of microenterprise.
  • microenvironment — the environment of a small area or of a particular organism; microhabitat.
  • microminiaturize — (especially of electronic equipment) to make extremely small; subject to microminiaturization.
  • microtransmitter — a small electronic device which transmits television or radio signals
  • minority carrier — the entity responsible for carrying the lesser part of the current in a semiconductor
  • misspecification — An incorrect specification.
  • mnemotechnically — In a mnemotechnic manner; using mnemotechny.
  • mock examination — an examination, esp in a school, taken as practice before an official examination
  • money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
  • monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
  • monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
  • monterey cypress — a tree, Cupressus macrocarpa, of southern California, being pyramid-shaped in youth, but spreading in age: occurs naturally in only two groves on the coast of Monterey County, California, but is cultivated extensively.
  • montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
  • mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
  • mos technologies — MOS Technology
  • motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
  • mount carmel man — an early human of Neanderthaloid type, known from skeletal remains from the late Pleistocene Epoch, c50,000–40,000 b.c., found in Palestine.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
  • musculocutaneous — of, relating to, or supplying the muscles and skin
  • musique concrete — tape-recorded musical and natural sounds, often electronically distorted, arranged in planned combinations, sequences, and rhythmic patterns to create an artistic work.
  • mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system)   (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
  • mutual recursion — recursion
  • national costume — traditional dress
  • native companion — brolga.
  • neo-conservatism — (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies
  • network computer — a relatively inexpensive computer with minimal processing power, designed primarily to provide access to computer networks, as corporate intranets or the Internet. Abbreviation: NC.
  • new commonwealth — a term used esp in the latter part of the 20th century in Britain to describe countries in the British Commonwealth that became independent after World War II
  • nominal sentence — a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.
  • non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
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