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16-letter words containing c, o, m, s, l

  • contemptibleness — The state or quality of being contemptible.
  • control commands — keyed instructions conveyed to a computer by using the control key in conjunction with the standard keys
  • controversialism — The attitude or tendency to engage in controversy.
  • contumeliousness — The state or quality of being contumelious.
  • copyright symbol — (character, legal)   "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
  • coromandel coast — the SE coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, extending from Point Calimere to the mouth of the Krishna River
  • crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
  • customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • demoiselle crane — a gray crane, Anthropoides virgo, of northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, having long, white plumes behind each eye.
  • diplomatic corps — the entire body of diplomats accredited to and resident at a court or capital.
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discriminatorily — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
  • distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
  • dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • domain selection — (systems analysis)   The prioritisation and selection of one or more domains for which specific software reuse engineering projects are to be initiated.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • economy of scale — a fall in average costs resulting from an increase in the scale of production
  • electrical storm — thunder, lightning
  • electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
  • 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
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • electronic music — music: synthesized
  • exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
  • falsificationism — (epistemology) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • 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.
  • four-course meal — A four-course meal is a meal that consists of four parts served one after the other.
  • fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
  • garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
  • 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
  • glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
  • gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
  • hayes-compatible — (communications)   A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
  • hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
  • ice-cream social — a social gathering, usually to raise money for a local church or school, where ice cream is the principal refreshment.
  • image consultant — imagemaker.
  • immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
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