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

  • economic geology — the branch of geology dealing with the location and exploitation of industrial materials obtained from the earth.
  • economic migrant — person: seeks work abroad
  • economy of scale — a fall in average costs resulting from an increase in the scale of production
  • 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).
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
  • electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
  • electromigration — (physics) the transport of small particles under the influence of an electric charge.
  • electronic music — music: synthesized
  • emancipationists — Plural form of emancipationist.
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
  • emergency worker — a person whose job is to help people in emergencies
  • encephalomalacia — (medicine) A localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation.
  • endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
  • endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
  • exclamation mark — (character)   The character "!" with ASCII code 33. Common names: bang; pling; excl (/eks'kl/); shriek; ITU-T: exclamation mark, exclamation point (US). Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; soldier; INTERCAL: spark-spot. The Commonwealth Hackish, "pling", is common among Acorn Archimedes owners. Bang is more common in the USA. The occasional CMU usage, "shriek", is also used by APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists. Exclamation mark is used in C and elsewhere as the logical negation operation (NOT).
  • exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • exhibition match — a sports match which is not part of a competition but instead serves the function of demonstrating the skills of the players
  • expectant mother — a pregnant woman
  • family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
  • ferdinand marcos — Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • file composition — A typesetting language.
  • file compression — (algorithm)   The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
  • fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
  • foreign commerce — an interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries (foreign commerce) or between different parts of the same country (domestic commerce) trade; business.
  • formation packer — A formation packer is a substance that is used as a seal between the casing and the borehole so that part of the hole can be tested.
  • french cameroons — Cameroun (def 2).
  • french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
  • fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
  • gamma correction — (hardware)   Adjustments applied during the display of a digital representation of colour on a screen in order to compensate for the fact that the Cathode Ray Tubes used in computer monitors (and televisions) produce a light intensity which is not proportional to the input voltage. The light intensity is actually proportional to the input voltage raised to the inverse power of some constant, called gamma. Its value varies from one display to another, but is usually around 2.5. Because it is more intuitive for the colour components (red, green and blue) to be varied linearly in the computer, the actual voltages sent to the monitor by the display hardware must be adjusted in order to make the colour component intensity on the screen proportional to the value stored in the computer's display memory. This process is most easily achieved by a dedicated module in the display hardware which simply scales the outputs of the display memory before sending them to the digital-to-analogue converters. More expensive graphics cards and workstations (particularly those used for CAD applications) will have a gamma correction facility. In combination with the "white-point" gamma correction is used to achieve precise colour matching.
  • gemini telescope — either of two identical 8-metre telescopes for optical and near-infrared observations built by an international consortium. Gemini North is in Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea and Gemini South is in Chile at 2715 m on Cerro Pachón
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • george mcclellan — George Brinton [brin-tn] /ˈbrɪn tn/ (Show IPA), 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War.
  • german cockroach — a common yellowish-brown cockroach, Blatta germanica, brought into the U.S. from Europe.
  • government stock — stock issued by the UK or another national government
  • haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
  • hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
  • hemolytic anemia — an anemic condition characterized by the destruction of red blood cells: seen in some drug reactions and in certain infectious and hereditary disorders.
  • high-compression — of a modern type of internal-combustion engine designed so that the fuel mixture is compressed into a smaller cylinder space, resulting in more pressure on the pistons and more power
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • hispano-american — Spanish.
  • honeymoon couple — a newly-married couple who are on their honeymoon
  • house of commons — the elective, lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, and various other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
  • hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
  • hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
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