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16-letter words containing l, o, c, m, t, i

  • pectoralis minor — the smaller of the two large chest muscles that assist in movements of the shoulder and upper arm
  • phantasmagorical — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • photoluminescent — luminescence induced by the absorption of infrared radiation, visible light, or ultraviolet radiation.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
  • plainclothes man — a detective or police officer who wears civilian clothes while on duty
  • policy committee — a group of people who provide ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • policy statement — a declaration of the plans and intentions of an organization or government
  • political asylum — asylum provided by one nation to refugees, especially political refugees, from another nation.
  • political system — a coordinated set of principles, laws, ideas, and procedures relating to a particular form of government, or the form of government itself: Democracy is a political system in which citizens govern themselves.
  • precontemplation — the act of contemplating; thoughtful observation.
  • primary election — primary (def 15a).
  • primary electron — in thermionics, any of the electrons falling on a body, distinguished from those emitted by it
  • prismatic colors — the colors of the visible spectrum produced by passing white light through a prism; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet
  • programmatically — by using a computer program: You can set the value in each field programmatically with a simple algorithm. The background shapes can be programmatically drawn and animated.
  • promotional code — A promotional code is a code offered by retailers to customers who can use it to receive a discounted price when buying products online.
  • ptolemaic system — a system elaborated by Ptolemy and subsequently modified by others, according to which the earth was the fixed center of the universe, with the heavenly bodies moving about it.
  • punctuationalism — punctuated equilibrium.
  • quasi-diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
  • radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • school committee — (in New Zealand) a parent group selected to support a primary school
  • select committee — a committee, as of a legislative body, that is formed to examine and report on a specific bill or issue.
  • selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
  • self-confinement — the act of confining.
  • self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
  • sodium cyclamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, NaC 6 NH 1 2 SO 3 , that has been used as a sweetening agent: banned by the FDA in 1970.
  • source materials — publications from which information is obtained
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • stamp collection — the act of collecting postage stamps as a hobby
  • steam locomotive — a locomotive moved by steam power generated in its own boiler: still in commercial use in nations that have not yet converted entirely to diesel and electric locomotives.
  • stick out a mile — to be extremely obvious
  • stomach stapling — Stomach stapling is an operation in which part of the stomach is removed in order to help a person to eat less and lose weight.
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • to stake a claim — If you stake a claim, you say that something is yours or that you have a right to it.
  • trail commission — A trail commission is a further commission of between 0.1 and 1 percent that is paid to an advisor provided that the client’s funds remain invested in the product for a specified time.
  • trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
  • trichotillomania — a compulsion to pull out one's hair.
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • ultramicroscopic — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
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