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16-letter words containing n, a, o, m, t

  • 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
  • consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
  • consonant system — the consonant phonemes of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
  • constant lambert — Constant [kon-stuh nt] /ˈkɒn stənt/ (Show IPA), 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
  • 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.
  • contact magazine — a magazine in which to place adverts to make contacts, esp sexual ones
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • contumaciousness — The property of being contumacious.
  • 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
  • counter-argument — A counter-argument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
  • counterarguments — Plural form of counterargument.
  • countermigration — a migration in the opposite direction.
  • counterstatement — a statement made to deny or refute another statement.
  • cream of coconut — coconut cream (def 1).
  • cream-of-coconut — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
  • 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.
  • crosscontaminate — Alternative spelling of cross-contaminate.
  • customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
  • cyclohexamantane — (chemistry) A certain diamondoid, C26H30.
  • dark of the moon — the period during which the moon is not visible.
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • day of atonement — Yom Kippur
  • 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.
  • dedolomitization — a metamorphic process in which the magnesium in dolomitic rock forms new minerals, as brucite and forsterite, and the calcium forms calcite.
  • dehumidification — Dehumidification is the removal of vapor from a gas-vapor mixture.
  • delegitimization — The act or process of delegitimizing.
  • dementia praecox — schizophrenia
  • demilitarisation — The removal of a military force, usually at the end of hostilities or as part of a treaty.
  • demilitarization — to deprive of military character; free from militarism.
  • demineralisation — Alternative spelling of demineralization.
  • demineralization — to remove minerals from; deprive of mineral content.
  • demolition squad — a group of demolishers
  • demonstrableness — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • demutualizations — Plural form of demutualization.
  • denominationally — In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.
  • department store — A department store is a large shop which sells many different kinds of goods.
  • depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
  • depolymerization — (chemistry) The decomposition of a polymer into smaller fragments.
  • destigmatization — The process or act of destigmatizing.
  • development area — (in Britain) an area suffering from high unemployment and economic depression, because of the decline of its main industries, that is given government help to establish new industries
  • development bank — A development bank is a bank that provides money for projects in poor countries or areas.
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