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16-letter words containing c, o, s, i

  • conversion table — a diagram which shows equivalent amounts in different measuring systems
  • convertible lens — a lens containing two or more elements that can be used individually or in combination to provide a variety of focal lengths.
  • cook-chill foods — foods which are chilled rapidly and reheated as required
  • coping mechanism — something a person does to deal with a difficult situation
  • 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.
  • cordon sanitaire — a guarded line serving to cut off an infected area
  • core description — A core description is a summary of the information about a rock sample, found by core analysis.
  • cornet à pistons — a three-valved brass instrument of the trumpet family. Written range: about two and a half octaves upwards from E below middle C. It is a transposing instrument in B flat or A
  • cornet-a-pistons — cornet (def 1).
  • corona australis — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere between Ara and Pavo
  • corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
  • coronary cushion — a thick band of vascular tissue in the coronet of horses and other hoofed animals that secretes the horny wall of the hoof.
  • coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
  • corporation stop — a cock controlling the flow of water or gas from mains to individual consumers.
  • cosimo de'medici — Catherine de', Catherine de Médicis.
  • cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
  • cost-effectively — in a cost-effective way; efficiently
  • cost-efficiently — cost-effective.
  • costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
  • cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
  • cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
  • council of state — a council that deliberates on high-level policies of a government.
  • counter-instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
  • counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
  • counterculturist — Counterculturalist.
  • counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
  • counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
  • counterinsurgent — of or relating to counterinsurgency
  • counterirritants — Plural form of counterirritant.
  • counternarcotics — Measures or activities designed to prevent the use or distrubution of iillegal narcotic drugs.
  • counteroffensive — a series of attacks by a defending force against an attacking enemy
  • countersignature — second signature
  • counterterrorism — Counterterrorism consists of activities that are intended to prevent terrorist acts or to get rid of terrorist groups.
  • counterterrorist — Intended to combat terrorism.
  • course of action — a way of proceeding
  • coursewriter iii — (language, education)   A simple CAI language, developed around 1976.
  • court of justice — a legal court
  • court of session — the supreme civil court in Scotland
  • cowichan sweater — a heavy sweater of grey, unbleached wool with distinctive designs that were originally black-and-white but are now sometimes coloured: knitted originally by Cowichan Indians in British Columbia
  • craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
  • creation science — teaching and research based upon the belief that the biblical account of the creation of the world is scientific fact
  • creative commons — Sometimes, creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons; a creative commons license.
  • creative tension — a situation where disagreement or discord ultimately gives rise to better ideas or outcomes
  • creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
  • crime of passion — a crime, often a murder, committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • critical section — A non-re-entrant piece of code that can only be executed by one process at a time. It will usually terminate in bounded time and a process will only have to wait a bounded time to enter it. Some synchronisation mechanism is required at the entry and exit of the critical section to ensure exclusive use.
  • cross one's mind — to occur to one briefly or suddenly
  • cross protection — the protection against a viral infection given to a plant by its prior inoculation with a related but milder virus
  • cross-curricular — denoting or relating to an approach to a topic that includes contributions from several different disciplines and viewpoints
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