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

  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
  • discourteousness — The state or quality of being discourteous.
  • discussion board — a website or section of a website that is used for public discussion of a specific topic and on which users can submit or read messages: You should post your questions on a parenting message board and get support from other parents.
  • discussion group — group assembled to discuss sth
  • disqualification — an act or instance of disqualifying.
  • distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
  • district council — the local ruling body of an urban or rural district.
  • divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
  • dominus vobiscum — the Lord be with you.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • drunkard's chair — a low, deep armchair of the 18th century.
  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • eigenfrequencies — Plural form of eigenfrequency.
  • electronic music — music: synthesized
  • enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
  • ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
  • exclusion clause — (in a contract) something that serves to limit liabilities
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • feminine caesura — a caesura occurring immediately after an unstressed or short syllable.
  • ferruginous duck — a common European duck, Aythyra nyroca, having reddish-brown plumage with white wing bars
  • figure-conscious — concerned to keep an attractively slim body shape
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • folk linguistics — speculation and popular views about language.
  • franchise clause — a clause stipulating that the insured will be responsible for any loss not in excess of a stated amount, and the insurance company will be liable for full payment of the loss equaling or exceeding the amount up to the insured amount.
  • francis of paula — Saint, 1416–1507, Italian monk: founder of the order of Minims.
  • fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
  • functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • functionlessness — The quality or state of being functionless.
  • fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
  • gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
  • giant's causeway — a large body of basalt, unusual in displaying perfect columnar jointing, exposed on a promontory on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • golden delicious — a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.
  • gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
  • gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
  • health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
  • health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
  • hurricane season — annual cyclone period
  • huygens eyepiece — an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses, the plane sides of which both face the eye.
  • hyperinsulinemic — Suffering from or characterized by hyperinsulinemia, an excessively high level of insulin in the blood.
  • hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • hypostatic union — (In Cristianity) Christ's condition of being, at the same time, both human and divine
  • image consultant — imagemaker.
  • 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.
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