16-letter words containing i, d, o, c
- command guidance — a method of controlling a missile during flight by transmitting information to it
- commodity dollar — the unit of a proposed system of currency, that would have a fluctuating gold value determined at regular intervals on the basis of an official index of the prices of key commodities
- common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
- communion sunday — any Sunday on which communion is administered.
- community leader — a leading figure in a community
- companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
- competitive edge — business: superiority
- compressed video — video compression
- computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
- concession stand — a stall where food, drinks, or other items are sold at a theatre or other venue
- conditional sale — a sale in which the title of a property remains with the seller until some condition is met, as the payment of the full purchase price.
- condominium unit — an apartment in a condominium building
- confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
- confederationist — A supporter of confederation.
- confidence level — a measure of the reliability of a result. A confidence level of 95 per cent or 0.95 means that there is a probability of at least 95 per cent that the result is reliable
- confidence trick — A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.
- confidentialness — The state or quality of being confidential.
- conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
- consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
- considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
- constant folding — (compiler) A compiler optimisation technique where constant subexpressions are evaluated at compile time. This is usually only applied to built-in numerical and boolean operators whereas partial evaluation is more general in that expressions involving user-defined functions may also be evaluated at compile time.
- consubstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of consubstantiate.
- consumption weed — groundsel tree.
- container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
- content provider — A content provider is a company that supplies material such as text, music, or images for use on websites.
- continental code — Morse1
- contingency fund — a sum of money allocated for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
- contraindicating — Present participle of contraindicate.
- contraindication — Contraindications are specific medical reasons for not using a particular treatment for a medical condition in the usual way.
- contraindicative — Serving as a contraindication.
- convenience food — Convenience food is frozen, dried, or canned food that can be heated and prepared very quickly and easily.
- conventionalised — to make conventional.
- conventionalized — to make conventional.
- convertible bond — a bond that can be exchanged for a fixed number of shares of the common stock of the issuing company at the holder's option.
- cook-chill foods — foods which are chilled rapidly and reheated as required
- 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.
- coram non judice — before a court lacking the authority to hear and decide the case in question.
- 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.
- corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
- corporate raider — A corporate raider is a person or organization that tries to take control of a company by buying a large number of its shares.
- correction fluid — a fluid, usually white, that can be painted over a mistake in writing or typing so that the correct form can be written or typed on top
- cosimo de'medici — Catherine de', Catherine de Médicis.
- costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
- 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.
- counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
- cracked fraction — A cracked fraction is a petroleum fraction (= a portion separated according to a physical property) that has been broken down from a fraction with larger molecules.
- creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
- cross one's mind — to occur to one briefly or suddenly
- cross-validation — a process by which a method that works for one sample of a population is checked for validity by applying the method to another sample from the same population.