16-letter words containing m, u, s, i, c
- composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
- computer science — the study of computers and their application
- computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
- configurationism — Gestalt psychology
- consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
- consumer society — You can use consumer society to refer to a society where people think that spending money on goods and services is very important.
- consumption weed — groundsel tree.
- 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.
- continuous miner — continuous cutter.
- contumaciousness — The property of being contumacious.
- contumeliousness — The state or quality of being contumelious.
- cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
- costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
- counterterrorism — Counterterrorism consists of activities that are intended to prevent terrorist acts or to get rid of terrorist groups.
- criminal assault — a punishable offence of attempting to harm another person through physical contact
- criminal justice — the system of law enforcement, involving police, lawyers, courts, and corrections, used for all stages of criminal proceedings and punishment.
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
- customer service — Customer service refers to the way that companies behave towards their customers, for example how well they treat them.
- discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
- discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- 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
- dominus vobiscum — the Lord be with you.
- drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
- duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
- easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
- electronic music — music: synthesized
- exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- feminine caesura — a caesura occurring immediately after an unstressed or short syllable.
- fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
- fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
- garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
- gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
- gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- hyperinsulinemic — Suffering from or characterized by hyperinsulinemia, an excessively high level of insulin in the blood.
- hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- ice-cream supper — an ice-cream social held in the late afternoon or early evening.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- immersion course — an educational course that teaches a foreign language, and in which the lessons are entirely conducted in the foreign language
- immunocompromise — (medicine) The state of having a compromised immune system.
- impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
- impact structure — a large geologic formation, as a crater, created by a comet's or meteor's collision with a planet.
- imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- incidental music — music intended primarily to point up or accompany parts of the action of a play or to serve as transitional material between scenes.
- incombustibility — The quality or state of being incombustible.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- incommodiousness — The state or quality of being incommodious.