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16-letter words containing c, u, r, i, o

  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • foreign currency — money used in another country
  • francis of paula — Saint, 1416–1507, Italian monk: founder of the order of Minims.
  • 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.
  • functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
  • functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • galactic equator — the great circle on the celestial sphere that is equidistant from the galactic poles, being inclined approximately 62° to the celestial equator and lying about one degree north of the center line of the Milky Way.
  • garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
  • gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
  • get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
  • heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
  • hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
  • hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
  • heteromultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more different polypeptide chains.
  • high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
  • horticulturalist — Misspelling of horticulturist.
  • hurricane season — annual cyclone period
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • ichthyophthirius — ich.
  • imago europe plc — A UK Internet provider. There sevice is called Imago On-line. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • immersion course — an educational course that teaches a foreign language, and in which the lessons are entirely conducted in the foreign language
  • immunocompromise — (medicine) The state of having a compromised immune system.
  • impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • incorruptibility — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • indian liquorice — a woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius, native to tropical Asia and naturalized elsewhere, having scarlet black-spotted poisonous seeds, used as beads, and roots used as a substitute for liquorice
  • induction course — training for new job
  • induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
  • infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
  • insulin reaction — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
  • insurance broker — person who sells insurance policies
  • insurance policy — contract that insures sth
  • intercommunicate — to communicate mutually, as people.
  • interim accounts — accounts published in the course of the financial year
  • intramolecularly — In an intramolecular manner; within a molecule.
  • intraocular lens — a plastic lens implanted surgically to replace the eye's natural crystalline lens, usually because the natural lens has developed a cataract.
  • inverse function — the function that replaces another function when the dependent and independent variables of the first function are interchanged for an appropriate set of values of the dependent variable. In y = sin x and x = arc sin y, the inverse function of sine is arc sine.
  • journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
  • judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
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