16-letter words containing m, a, c, r, o
- circumnavigation — to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
- circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
- clearance volume — The clearance volume is the volume remaining above the piston of an engine when it reaches top dead center.
- clermont-ferrand — a city in S central France: capital of Puy-de-Dôme department; industrial centre. Pop: 140 957 (2011)
- cloakroom ticket — a ticket given to someone who checks a coat or other personal item into a cloakroom and which is used to redeem that item at a later period
- closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
- co-determination — a system of industrial management in which workers share responsibility for the operation of a company, as through elected representation on a corporate supervisory board
- coadministration — Joint administration.
- cochlear implant — a device that stimulates the acoustic nerve in the inner ear in order to produce some form of hearing in people who are deaf from inner ear disease
- collaborationism — The act of collaborating, especially with an enemy.
- colorimetrically — (analytical chemistry) By means of colorimetry or by using a colorimeter.
- column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
- combination door — an outside door having a frame into which different types of panels can be inserted, as a screen for summer or storm sash for winter.
- combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
- combination room — (at Cambridge University) a common room
- come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
- commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
- commensurateness — The state or quality of being commensurate.
- commercial break — A commercial break is the interval during a commercial television programme, or between programmes, during which advertisements are shown.
- commercial paper — a short-term negotiable document, such as a bill of exchange, promissory note, etc, calling for the transference of a specified sum of money at a designated date
- commercial pilot — an airplane pilot licensed to transport passengers, goods, etc.
- commodity dollar — the unit of a proposed system of currency, that would have a fluctuating gold value determined at regular intervals on the basis of an official index of the prices of key commodities
- common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
- common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
- common-or-garden — You can use common-or-garden to describe something you think is ordinary and not special in any way.
- communitarianism — A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities.
- community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
- community leader — a leading figure in a community
- commutator group — the subgroup of a given group, which consists of all the commutators in the group.
- companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
- comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
- compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
- compartmentalize — To compartmentalize something means to divide it into separate sections.
- compartmentation — subdivision of a hull into spaces enclosed by watertight bulkheads and sometimes by watertight decks.
- complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
- complex variable — a variable to which complex numbers may be assigned as value.
- compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
- compute parallel — (language) (Compel) The first single-assignment language.
- computer program — a set of instructions for a computer to perform some task
- condensed matter — crystalline and amorphous solids and liquids, including liquid crystals, glasses, polymers, and gels
- confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
- configurationism — Gestalt psychology
- constant lambert — Constant [kon-stuh nt] /ˈkɒn stənt/ (Show IPA), 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
- consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- contemporariness — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
- contractarianism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
- control commands — keyed instructions conveyed to a computer by using the control key in conjunction with the standard keys
- controversialism — The attitude or tendency to engage in controversy.
- cooperative farm — a farm that is run in cooperation with others in the purchasing and using of machinery, stock, etc, and in the marketing of produce through its own institutions (farmers' cooperatives)