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

  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • stevenson screen — a shelter for meteorological instruments, consisting of a raised white louvred box
  • stilton (cheese) — a rich, crumbly cheese with veins of blue-green mold
  • stock controller — someone employed to monitor and manage goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available all the time
  • stock management — the monitoring and control of goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available at all times
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • stockton-on-tees — a seaport in Cleveland, in NE England, near the mouth of the Tees River.
  • stone-cold sober — If someone is stone-cold sober, they are not drunk at all.
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
  • subjectification — to make subjective.
  • subsistence crop — a food plant which is grown by a farmer for consumption by himself and his family, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • succession state — any of a number of usually new states that are established in or expand over the territory formerly ruled by one large state
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • super-injunction — an instruction or order issued by a court imposing restrictions on reporting, including any reference to the restriction itself
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
  • suspense account — an account in which items are temporarily entered until their final disposition is determined.
  • sutton coldfield — a town in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, West Midlands; a residential suburb of Birmingham. Pop: 105 452 (2001)
  • swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
  • syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • take one's place — to take up one's usual or specified position
  • tandem computers — (company)   A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
  • tax depreciation — Tax depreciation is depreciation in a company's internal financial records that is different from the amount that is used for the internal books.
  • teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • teleconferencing — a business meeting, educational session, etc., conducted among participants in different locations via telecommunications equipment. Compare videoconference.
  • ten commandments — Bible: instructions given to Moses
  • tenant in common — one of two or more persons who hold property by tenancy in common.
  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
  • tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • the annunciation — the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26–38)
  • the anthropocene — a proposed term for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards), during which humanity has begun to have a significant impact on the environment
  • the common touch — If you say that someone has the common touch, you mean that they have the natural ability to have a good relationship with ordinary people and be popular with them.
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the constitution — the document containing the fundamental laws of the United States: it consists of the seven original articles, adopted in 1789, and twenty-seven amendments
  • the cotton state — a nickname for Alabama
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the leonine city — a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber fortified by Pope Leo IV
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
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