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16-letter words containing e, y, r

  • cayenne software — (company)   The company formed when CADRE merged with Bachman Information Systems in July 1996.
  • celebrity status — the prominence of film star, footballer, musician etc who is constantly photographed and written about in tabloids and magazines
  • central cylinder — stele (def 4).
  • central tendency — the tendency of the values of a random variable to cluster around the mean, median, and mode
  • centrally heated — A centrally heated building or room has central heating.
  • century meltdown — Year 2000
  • cervera y topete — Pascual [pahs-kwahl] /pɑsˈkwɑl/ (Show IPA), 1839–1909, Spanish admiral.
  • character comedy — comedy, or a comedy, in which the main source of humour is in the character of the people represented in it
  • chemoprophylaxis — the prevention of disease using chemical drugs
  • chemoreceptivity — The ability of a sense organ to respond to a chemical stimulus.
  • chernobyl packet — (networking)   /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ A network packet that induces a broadcast storm and/or network meltdown, named in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ethernet address and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between. Compare Christmas tree packet.
  • chew the scenery — to overact, as in a play or film
  • chiclet keyboard — (hardware, abuse)   A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of Chiclets chewing gum. Used especially to describe the original IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors unanimously liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early portable and laptop computers were launched with them. Customers rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets are not often seen on anything larger than a digital watch any more.
  • cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
  • chryselephantine — (of ancient Greek statues) made of or overlaid with gold and ivory
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • circuit analyzer — multimeter.
  • city of aberdeen — a council area in NE Scotland, established in 1996. Pop: 206 600 (2003 est). Area: 186 sq km (72 sq miles)
  • civic university — (in Britain) a university originally instituted as a higher education college serving a particular city
  • coherence theory — the theory of truth that every true statement, insofar as it is true, describes its subject in the totality of its relationship with all other things.
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • collared peccary — a piglike artiodactyl mammal, Tayassu tajacu, of forests of southern North America, Central and South America: family Tayassuidae
  • colorimetrically — (analytical chemistry) By means of colorimetry or by using a colorimeter.
  • comedy of errors — an early comedy (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commit to memory — to learn by heart; memorize
  • community center — A community center is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
  • community centre — A community centre is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
  • confused elderly — old and no longer having mental abilities sufficient for independent living
  • constructed type — (types)   A type formed by applying some type constructor function to one or more other types. The usual constructions are functions: t1 -> t2, products: (t1, t2), sums: t1 + t2 and lifting: lift(t1). (In LaTeX, the lifted type is written with a subscript \perp). See also algebraic data type, primitive type.
  • consumer society — You can use consumer society to refer to a society where people think that spending money on goods and services is very important.
  • continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
  • control freakery — an obsessive need to be in control of what is happening
  • controversiality — The quality or state of being controversial.
  • conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
  • copper hydroxide — a blue, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Cu(OH) 2 , used in the manufacture of rayon, as a source for copper salts, and as a mordant.
  • coreferentiality — (of two words or phrases) having reference to the same person or thing.
  • cornelian cherry — a flowering tree of the dogwood family Cornus mas
  • corporate lawyer — a lawyer who works for a corporation
  • cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
  • 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.
  • counter-strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
  • counter-tendency — a natural or prevailing disposition to move, proceed, or act in some direction or toward some point, end, or result: the tendency of falling bodies toward the earth.
  • counterfactually — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
  • couvade syndrome — a psychosomatic condition in which the spouse or partner of a pregnant woman experiences symptoms of childbirth or pregnancy
  • covariant theory — the principle that physical laws have the same form and interrelations in any system of coordinates in which they are expressed.
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