15-letter words containing i, s, o, t, n, c
- complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- composing stick — a metal holder of adjustable width in which a compositor sets a line of type at a time by hand; now rarely used
- composite print — a photograph characterized by overlapping or juxtaposed images resulting from a multiple exposure or the combining of negatives (composite print)
- compositionally — in a compositional manner
- compotationship — the state of being a compotator or drinking companion
- computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
- computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
- conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
- conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
- concert pianist — a person who earns a living from giving solo performances on the piano in front of audiences
- concertmistress — the first violinist in an orchestra
- concurrent lisp — (language) A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
- condition codes — a set of single bits that indicate specific conditions within a computer. The values of the condition codes are often determined by the outcome of a prior software operation and their principal use is to govern choices between alternative instruction sequences
- confectionaries — a candy; sweetmeat.
- confectioneries — Plural form of confectionery.
- confessionalist — an advocate of confessionalism
- confidence test — (testing) Tests to confirm that the results of a program lie within certain ranges according to the expected probability distribution.
- confraternities — Plural form of confraternity.
- conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
- congratulations — You say 'Congratulations' to someone in order to congratulate them on something nice that has happened to them or something good that they have done.
- conjoined twins — twin babies born joined together at some point, such as at the hips. Some have lived for many years without being surgically separated
- conjunctiveness — the quality of being conjunctive
- conscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
- conscriptionist — a person who is in favour of conscription
- consecutiveness — The state or quality of being consecutive.
- consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
- conservationism — A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources.
- conservationist — A conservationist is someone who cares greatly about the conservation of the environment and who works to protect it.
- conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
- considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- consonant shift — a change, or a set of connected changes, in the articulation of consonants in any language or family of languages
- constantine vii — known as Porphyrogenitus. 905–59 ad, Byzantine emperor (913–59) and scholar: his writings are an important source for Byzantine history
- constitutionals — Plural form of constitutional.
- constitutionist — a constitutionalist
- constructionism — an educational theory holding that children learn most effectively when actively doing, or constructing, things, rather than being taught information in a traditional schooling method
- constructionist — a person who interprets constitutional law in a certain way, esp strictly
- constructivists — Plural form of constructivist.
- consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
- consulting room — A doctor's or therapist's consulting room is the room in which they see their patients.
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
- consumption tax — a tax, as a sales tax, levied on consumer goods or services at the time of sale.
- contact details — the information required to contact someone, such as an address or telephone number
- container class — (programming) A class whose instances are collections of other objects. Examples include arrays, lists, queues and stacks. A container class typically provides methods such as count, insert, delete and search.
- contention slot — (networking) In a communication system where only one node at a time may transmit successfully on a shared channel, the contention slot or contention period is the time a node must wait before it can be sure that no other node's transmission has collided with its transmission. If node A starts to transmit at time t0 and then another node starts to transmit just before it recieves A's transmission at time t0 + T, then the transmissions will collide but node A will not detect the collision until time t0 + 2T. The contention slot, 2T, for nodes seperated by the maximum propagation delay thus determines how much data the node must be prepared to re-transmit in the event of a collision.
- contentiousness — The state of being contentious.
- contextualising — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
- continuous-form — of or relating to paper, blank forms, checks, etc., supplied in a folded stack or roll to a device, as a computer printer, generally with perforations between sheets for later separation and often with detachable punched edges used to advance the sheets through the device.