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

  • ammonium cyanate — a white, crystalline solid, CH 4 N 2 O, soluble in alcohol, that is converted into urea when heated.
  • ammonium lactate — a colorless to yellow, water-soluble, syrupy liquid, C 3 H 9 NO 3 , used chiefly in electroplating.
  • anabolic steroid — Anabolic steroids are drugs which people, especially athletes, take to make their muscles bigger and to give them more strength.
  • anal intercourse — a form of sexual intercourse in which the penis is inserted into the anus
  • analog recording — a method of sound recording in which an input audio waveform is converted to an analogous waveform.
  • ancestor worship — (in certain societies) the veneration of ancestors whose spirits are frequently held to possess the power to influence the affairs of the living.
  • ancienne-lorette — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • ancient monument — a historical building or the remains of one, usually dating from no later than the medieval period, that has been designated as worthy of preservation and is often in the care of a government department
  • angle of advance — the angle in excess of 90° that a steam-engine valve gear is in advance of the crank
  • angular velocity — the velocity of a body rotating about a specified axis measured as the rate of change of the angle subtended at that axis by the path of the body
  • animated cartoon — a film produced by photographing a series of gradually changing drawings, etc, which give the illusion of movement when the series is projected rapidly
  • anode dark space — the dark region between the anode glow and the anode in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • anode resistance — (of a vacuum tube at a given level of output) the ratio of a small change in voltage of the anode to the corresponding small change in anode current.
  • anomalistic year — the interval between two successive passages of the earth through perihelion; 365.25964 mean solar days
  • answer-back code — a unique code that identifies the telex machine to which a message is sent
  • anthropocentrism — an anthropocentric theory or view.
  • anthropometrical — Pertaining to anthropometry.
  • anthroposemiotic — Of or pertaining to anthroposemiotics.
  • anti-consumerism — a modern movement for the protection of the consumer against useless, inferior, or dangerous products, misleading advertising, unfair pricing, etc.
  • anti-theoretical — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
  • anticholinergics — Plural form of anticholinergic.
  • anticippointment — (informal, rare) A feeling of anticipation followed by disappointment.
  • anticyclogenesis — the intensification or development of an anticyclone.
  • antirecessionary — used to counteract or offest the economic effects of a recession: the president's antirecessionary program.
  • apical dominance — suppression of the development of lateral buds in a growing plant shoot, caused by hormones produced in the tip of the shoot.
  • appearance money — Appearance money is money paid to a famous person such as a sports star or film star for taking part in a public event.
  • apple-touch-icon — (programming)   (apple-touch-icon.png) Apple's default icon (image) used to represent a website, e.g. when saved as a bookmark or on the home screen of an iOS device such as an iPhone or iPad. Apple's scheme allows a site to offer images of different sizes so the client can choose the most appropriate one according to its screen size and resolution. Apple devices and applications completely ignore the favicon.ico de facto standard which, while somewhat quirky in its use of the ico format, has been pretty much universally adopted elsewhere. Conversely, apple-touch-icon.png will be ignored by non-Apple devices, possibly because its 16x16 resolution would look pretty shabby on most smart phones.
  • approachableness — capable of being approached; accessible.
  • archaeoastronomy — the scientific study of the beliefs and practices concerning astronomy that existed in ancient and prehistoric civilizations
  • archaeomagnetism — an archaeological technique for dating certain clay objects by measuring the extent to which they have been magnetized by the earth's magnetic field
  • archconservative — consistently holding extremely conservative views: publisher of the city's archconservative newspaper.
  • around the clock — continuing without pause or interruption: an around-the-clock guard on the prisoner.
  • around-the-clock — all day and all night
  • arsenic trioxide — a white poisonous powder used in the manufacture of glass and as an insecticide, rat poison, and weedkiller. Formula: As2O3
  • arthus' reaction — a severe, local immune reaction to the injection of an antigen in a sensitized host.
  • ascidian tadpole — the free-swimming larva of an ascidian, having a tadpole-like tail containing the notochord and nerve cord
  • assigned counsel — any private lawyer designated by a city or county court to represent indigent defendants in criminal cases at public expense.
  • association area — any of the regions of the cerebral cortex of the brain connected by numerous nerve fibers to all parts of both cerebral hemispheres and coordinating such higher activities as learning and reasoning.
  • aston dark space — the dark region between the cathode and the cathode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • atlantic croaker — a person or thing that croaks.
  • atrioventricular — of, relating to, or affecting both the atria and the ventricles of the heart
  • attendance order — (in Britain) an order issued by a court requiring a young offender to attend a specified place at specified times in order to carry out unpaid work, usually as an alternative to being fined
  • attorney-in-fact — a person authorized by power of attorney to act on the authorizer's behalf outside a court of law.
  • atwood's machine — a device consisting of two unequal masses connected by a string passed over a pulley, used to illustrate the laws of motion.
  • auction pinochle — a variety of pinochle for three to five players in which, for every hand, there are three active players, each dealt 15 cards, with the highest bidder winning the contract and playing against the other two active opponents.
  • audio conference — a meeting that is conducted by the use of audio telecommunications
  • authentification — The process of making, or establishing as, authentic.
  • autoethnographic — Using ethnographic techniques to describe one's own life, or events in which one is a participant.
  • autofluorescence — (biology, microscopy) Self-induced fluorescence.
  • azodicarbonamide — (chemistry) An organic chemical, a yellow to orange red, odorless, crystalline powder, used in food industry as a food additive, a flour bleaching agent and improving agent and in foaming plastics.
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