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16-letter words containing c, y, m, o, t

  • melodramatically — In a melodramatic manner.
  • mercury autocode — Autocode for the Ferranti Mercury machine.
  • meritocratically — In a meritocratic way.
  • meteorologically — In meteorological terms; in the context of weather.
  • methodologically — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
  • methyl cellulose — a grayish-white powder prepared from cellulose that swells to a highly viscous colloidal solution in water: used as a food additive and in water paints, leather tanning, and cosmetics.
  • microclimatology — the study of a microclimate.
  • microcrystalline — minutely crystalline; composed of microscopic crystals.
  • microgametophyte — (biology) Any gametophyte that develops from a microspore.
  • micrometeorology — the study of local and small-scale atmospheric phenomena, usually confined to the physical and dynamic occurrences within a shallow stratum of air adjacent to the ground.
  • microphotography — microfilm (def 1).
  • migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
  • minority carrier — the entity responsible for carrying the lesser part of the current in a semiconductor
  • misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
  • misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
  • mnemotechnically — In a mnemotechnic manner; using mnemotechny.
  • money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
  • monochromaticity — of or having one color.
  • monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
  • monopolistically — In a monopolistic manner.
  • monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
  • monterey cypress — a tree, Cupressus macrocarpa, of southern California, being pyramid-shaped in youth, but spreading in age: occurs naturally in only two groves on the coast of Monterey County, California, but is cultivated extensively.
  • montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
  • mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
  • non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
  • non-contemporary — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
  • onomatopoeically — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
  • orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
  • overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
  • oxycalcium light — calcium light.
  • paleoclimatology — the branch of paleogeography dealing with the study of paleoclimates.
  • pheochromocytoma — a tumor of the sympathetic nervous system or adrenal medulla, that produces excess norepinephrine and epinephrine and causes hypertension, headaches, nausea, etc.
  • plymouth company — a company, formed in England in 1606 to establish colonies in America and that founded a colony in Maine in 1607.
  • policy committee — a group of people who provide ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • policy statement — a declaration of the plans and intentions of an organization or government
  • political asylum — asylum provided by one nation to refugees, especially political refugees, from another nation.
  • political system — a coordinated set of principles, laws, ideas, and procedures relating to a particular form of government, or the form of government itself: Democracy is a political system in which citizens govern themselves.
  • pragmatic theory — the theory of truth that the truth of a statement consists in its practical consequences, especially in its agreement with subsequent experience.
  • primary election — primary (def 15a).
  • primary electron — in thermionics, any of the electrons falling on a body, distinguished from those emitted by it
  • programmatically — by using a computer program: You can set the value in each field programmatically with a simple algorithm. The background shapes can be programmatically drawn and animated.
  • property company — a business that makes money by buying, selling, and renting out land and houses
  • protection money — law: criminal fee
  • ptolemaic system — a system elaborated by Ptolemy and subsequently modified by others, according to which the earth was the fixed center of the universe, with the heavenly bodies moving about it.
  • radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
  • rating community — an online community based around a website that allows members to rate each other's photographs, qualifications, etc, as well as those of applicants, and which only those approved by existing members are allowed to join
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
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