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

  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • incommodiousness — The state or quality of being incommodious.
  • inconclusiveness — The state or condition of being inconclusive.
  • inconsequentials — Plural form of inconsequential.
  • 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.
  • infelicitousness — (linguistics, pragmatics) The quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed.
  • inofficious will — a will inconsistent with the moral duty and natural affection of the testator, especially one denying the legitimate heirs the portions of the estate to which they are legally entitled.
  • 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
  • interim accounts — accounts published in the course of the financial year
  • intraocular lens — a plastic lens implanted surgically to replace the eye's natural crystalline lens, usually because the natural lens has developed a cataract.
  • intussusceptions — Plural form of intussusception.
  • 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.
  • junior's license — a driver's license issued to people under the age of 18
  • jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • linguistic stock — a parent language and all its derived dialects and languages.
  • louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.
  • luminosity class — a classification of stars of a given spectral type according to their luminosity, breaking them down into dwarfs, giants, and supergiants.
  • macro-linguistic — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macroinstruction — macro (def 5).
  • macrolinguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • magnetoacoustics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of physics studying the effects of magnetism on acoustics or their interaction.
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
  • meretriciousness — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
  • microconstituent — a microscopically small constituent of a metal or alloy.
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • microinstruction — an instruction that defines part of a machine-language instruction in terms of simpler operations.
  • microlinguistics — the branch of linguistics that is concerned with the study of languages in the abstract, and that looks at specific linguistic data without consideration of meaning
  • miscommunication — Failure to communicate adequately.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • misconstructions — Plural form of misconstruction.
  • mispronunciation — (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
  • moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
  • mount kosciuszko — a mountain in Australia, in SE New South Wales in the Australian Alps: the highest peak in Australia. Height: 2230 m (7316 ft)
  • mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
  • mousseline sauce — a light sauce, made by adding whipped cream or egg whites to hollandaise sauce
  • musique concrete — tape-recorded musical and natural sounds, often electronically distorted, arranged in planned combinations, sequences, and rhythmic patterns to create an artistic work.
  • mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system)   (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
  • mutual recursion — recursion
  • national costume — traditional dress
  • neo-confucianist — of or relating to neo-Confucians or neo-Confucianism.
  • neurolinguistics — the study of the neurological processes underlying the development and use of language.
  • neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
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