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16-letter words containing m, o, s, a, i, c

  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • combination last — a shoe last that has a narrower heel or instep than the standard last.
  • combination shot — a shot in pool in which the cue ball strikes at least one object ball before contact is made with the ball to be pocketed.
  • combination skin — facial skin that is dry in some areas and greasy in others
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commission agent — a person who sells goods and services for a fee
  • commonsensically — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
  • communion sunday — any Sunday on which communion is administered.
  • communitarianism — A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities.
  • commutation-test — the act of substituting one thing for another; substitution; exchange.
  • compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
  • complex analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with analytic functions of a complex variable.
  • complexity class — (algorithm)   A collection of algorithms or computable functions with the same complexity.
  • composite family — the large and varied plant family Compositae (or Asteraceae), typified by herbaceous plants having alternate, opposite, or whorled leaves and a whorl of bracts surrounding the flower heads, which are usually composed of a disk containing tiny petalless flowers and a ray of petals extending from the flowers at the rim of the disk, some flower heads being composed only of a disk or a ray and some plants having clusters of flower heads, and including the aster, daisy, dandelion, goldenrod, marigold, ragweed, sunflower, thistle, and zinnia.
  • compositionality — The property of being compositional.
  • compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
  • confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
  • configurationism — Gestalt psychology
  • consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
  • constant mapping — (networking)   A precursor to ARP used by some TCP software in which the destination Ethernet address is constructed from the top 24 bits of the source Ethernet address followed by the low 24 bits of the (class A) destination Internet address. For this scheme the top 24 bits of the Ethernet address must be the same on all hosts on the network.
  • contagious magic — magic that attempts to affect a person through something once connected with him or her, as a shirt once worn by the person or a footprint left in the sand; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that things once in contact are in some way permanently so, however separated physically they may subsequently become.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • controversialism — The attitude or tendency to engage in controversy.
  • contumaciousness — The property of being contumacious.
  • coping mechanism — something a person does to deal with a difficult situation
  • creative commons — Sometimes, creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons; a creative commons license.
  • crime of passion — a crime, often a murder, committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • crosscontaminate — Alternative spelling of cross-contaminate.
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • demoiselle crane — a gray crane, Anthropoides virgo, of northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, having long, white plumes behind each eye.
  • devonshire cream — clotted cream.
  • diamond district — the part of a town where diamond merchants and jewellers have their businesses
  • diplomatic corps — the entire body of diplomats accredited to and resident at a court or capital.
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discriminatorily — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
  • distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
  • dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • domain selection — (systems analysis)   The prioritisation and selection of one or more domains for which specific software reuse engineering projects are to be initiated.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
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