16-letter words containing m, y, c, i
- 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
- community spirit — willingness and desire to participate in activities that promote a community
- community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
- companionability — The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
- 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.
- conscience money — money paid voluntarily to compensate for dishonesty, esp money paid voluntarily for taxes formerly evaded
- 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.
- continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
- copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
- copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
- cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
- cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
- cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
- decimal currency — a system of currency in which the monetary units are parts or powers of ten
- democratic party — (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840
- dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- diagrammatically — in the form of a diagram; graphic; outlined.
- dialysis machine — device: kidney treatment
- dictionary flame — [Usenet] An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer argument over definitions to disputes about reality. Compare spelling flame.
- dictionary-maker — a person who compiles a dictionary
- dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
- direct democracy — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
- discriminability — The condition of being discriminable.
- discriminatingly — With discrimination.
- 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.
- diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
- documentary film — factual, informative film
- dollar diplomacy — a government policy of promoting the business interests of its citizens in other countries.
- domiciliary care — services, such as meals-on-wheels, health visiting, and home help, provided by a welfare agency for people in their own homes
- dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
- dynamic analysis — (programming) Evaluation of a program based on its execution. Dynamic analysis relies on executing a piece of software with selected test data.
- dynamic language — (language) (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
- dynamic markings — directions and symbols used to indicate degrees of loudness
- dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
- e-carrier system — (communications) A series of digital transmission formats promulgated by the ITU and used outside of North America and Japan. The basic unit of the E-carrier system is the DS0, which has a transmission rate of 64 Kbps, and is commonly used for one voice circuit. The E1 format consists of 32 DS0 channels, for a total capacity of 2.048 Mbps. E2, E3, E4, and E5 circuits carry multiple E1 channels multiplexed, resulting in transmission rates of up to 565.148 Mbps. The E-carrier system is similar to, and compatible with, the T-carrier system used in North America, but has higher capacity since it uses out-of-band signaling in contrast to the in-band signaling or bit-robbing used in the T-system.
- economic geology — the branch of geology dealing with the location and exploitation of industrial materials obtained from the earth.
- electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
- endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
- epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
- family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
- family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- family physician — a general practitioner.
- flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital