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16-letter words containing l, y, n, c

  • chauvinistically — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
  • chemonucleolysis — treatment for a herniated spinal disk in which chymopapain is injected into the disk to dissolve tissue.
  • chernobyl packet — (networking)   /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ A network packet that induces a broadcast storm and/or network meltdown, named in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ethernet address and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between. Compare Christmas tree packet.
  • chimney-climbing — the sport of climbing a vertical fissure large enough for a person's body to enter
  • chondrodysplasia — (medicine) A genetic disorder characterized by short-limbed dwarfism.
  • chryselephantine — (of ancient Greek statues) made of or overlaid with gold and ivory
  • cinnamyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 12 O 2 , having a piquant, flowerlike odor: used as a fixative in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • circuit analyzer — multimeter.
  • circumstantially — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
  • cladogenetically — By means of cladogenesis.
  • clay-with-flints — a deposit of stiff clay containing unworn whole flints in the S England
  • clean technology — techniques used in manufacturing processes that minimize the damage caused to the environment
  • clinically obese — overweight to a degree which causes medical complications
  • close by/at hand — Something that is close by or close at hand is near to you.
  • close one's eyes — to die
  • closed community — a plant community that does not allow for further colonization, all the available niches being occupied
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commonsensically — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • community school — a school offering some nonacademic activities related to life in a particular community and often serving as a community centre
  • companionability — The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
  • complex analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with analytic functions of a complex variable.
  • compositionality — The property of being compositional.
  • confused elderly — old and no longer having mental abilities sufficient for independent living
  • consanguineously — In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.
  • consequentiality — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
  • conspiratorially — the act of conspiring.
  • constitutionally — in composition or physique
  • constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
  • constructibility — The condition of being constructible.
  • constructionally — In a constructional manner.
  • content analysis — analysis to determine the meaning, purpose, or effect of any type of communication, as literature, newspapers, or broadcasts, by studying and evaluating the details, innuendoes, and implications of the content, recurrent themes, etc.
  • continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
  • contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
  • control freakery — an obsessive need to be in control of what is happening
  • controversiality — The quality or state of being controversial.
  • conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
  • coreferentiality — (of two words or phrases) having reference to the same person or thing.
  • cornelian cherry — a flowering tree of the dogwood family Cornus mas
  • cost-efficiently — cost-effective.
  • counterfactually — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
  • cray instability — A shortcoming of a program or algorithm that manifests itself only when a large problem is being run on a powerful machine such as a Cray. Generally more subtle than bugs that can be detected in smaller problems running on a workstation or minicomputer.
  • critical density — the density of matter that would be required to halt the expansion of the universe
  • croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
  • crystalline lens — a biconvex transparent elastic structure in the eye situated behind the iris, serving to focus images on the retina
  • cuban royal palm — a feather palm, Roystonea regia, of tropical America, having a trunk that is swollen in the middle, drooping leaves from 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 meters) long, and small, round fruit.
  • cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
  • cycle of erosion — the hypothetical sequence of modifications to the earth's surface by erosion, from the original uplift of the land to the ultimate low plain, usually divided into the youthful, mature, and old stages
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