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16-letter words containing m, o, n, l

  • command language — the language used to access a computer system
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • common knowledge — something widely or generally known
  • common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
  • common spoonbill — a wading bird of warm regions, Platalea leucorodia, having a long horizontally flattened bill: family Threskiornithidae, order Ciconiiformes
  • commonplace book — a notebook in which quotations, poems, remarks, etc, that catch the owner's attention are entered
  • 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
  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
  • 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
  • companion animal — an animal kept as a pet
  • companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
  • companion volume — a book that complements another on a related subject, usually by the same author
  • companionability — The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
  • compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
  • compartmentalize — To compartmentalize something means to divide it into separate sections.
  • compilation film — film from an archive used in a film or documentary to give a feeling of the relevant period
  • complex analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with analytic functions of a complex variable.
  • complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
  • complex pendulum — a complex structure mounted so that it can swing freely under the influence of gravity
  • complex sentence — a sentence containing at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
  • complexing agent — an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
  • complicitousness — (rare, possibly nonstandard) Complicity.
  • compliments slip — a slip of paper sent with a parcel that identifies the sender and expresses compliments
  • compositionality — The property of being compositional.
  • conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
  • consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
  • 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.
  • contemptibleness — The state or quality of being contemptible.
  • continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
  • 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.
  • contumeliousness — The state or quality of being contumelious.
  • copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
  • coromandel coast — the SE coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, extending from Point Calimere to the mouth of the Krishna River
  • creole continuum — a range of language varieties in an area undergoing decreolization showing a continuous gradation from forms more like the underlying creole to those approaching the standard language.
  • crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • criminal offence — an action which is punishable under the law
  • cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
  • 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.
  • curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
  • cyclohexamantane — (chemistry) A certain diamondoid, C26H30.
  • de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
  • dead-man's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • decimal fraction — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • dedolomitization — a metamorphic process in which the magnesium in dolomitic rock forms new minerals, as brucite and forsterite, and the calcium forms calcite.
  • delegitimization — The act or process of delegitimizing.
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