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16-letter words containing n, c, r

  • dredging machine — dredge1 (def 1).
  • driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
  • driver's license — a permit, as one issued by a state's motor vehicle bureau, that allows the holder to drive a motor vehicle on public roads.
  • drug trafficking — smuggling illegal drugs
  • drunkard's chair — a low, deep armchair of the 18th century.
  • ducks and drakes — Also, duck and drake. a pastime in which flat stones or shells are thrown across water so as to skip over the surface several times before sinking.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • ebenezer scrooge — Ebenezer [eb-uh-nee-zer] /ˌɛb əˈni zər/ (Show IPA) a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens' Christmas Carol.
  • eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
  • economic embargo — a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
  • economic migrant — person: seeks work abroad
  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • eigenfrequencies — Plural form of eigenfrequency.
  • electric blanket — electrically-heated bedcover
  • electric current — flow of electricity
  • electric furnace — any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
  • electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
  • electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
  • electromigration — (physics) the transport of small particles under the influence of an electric charge.
  • electron capture — the transformation of an atomic nucleus in which an electron from the atom is spontaneously absorbed into the nucleus. A proton is changed into a neutron, thereby reducing the atomic number by 1. A neutrino is emitted. The process may be detected by the consequent emission of the characteristic X-rays of the resultant element
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • electronic music — music: synthesized
  • electronic organ — an electrophonic instrument played by means of a keyboard, in which sounds are produced and amplified by any of various electronic or electrical means
  • electroreception — The detection by an aquatic animal of electric fields or currents.
  • electrostriction — the change in dimensions of a dielectric occurring as an elastic strain when an electric field is applied
  • electrosynthesis — synthesis produced by means of an electric current
  • elegiac quatrain — a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • emergency centre — a building used, often temporarily, to coordinate the response to an emergency and to deal with some of the problems that arise during the emergency
  • emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
  • emergency worker — a person whose job is to help people in emergencies
  • encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
  • endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
  • endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
  • endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
  • energy-efficient — A device or building that is energy-efficient uses relatively little energy to provide the power it needs.
  • engineer officer — a ship's officer who is qualified to be in charge of the vessel's propulsion and other machinery
  • engineer's chain — a unit of length equal to 100 feet
  • enriched uranium — uranium in which the proportion of the fissile isotope U-235 has been increased to make it more fissile
  • entente cordiale — a friendly understanding between political powers: less formal than an alliance
  • entrenching tool — a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.
  • error correction — the automatic correction of errors in data that arise from missing or distorted digital pulses
  • ethnocentrically — In an ethnocentric way.
  • ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
  • european council — an executive body of the European Union, made up of the President of the European Commission and representatives of the member states, including the foreign and other ministers. The Council acts at the request of the Commission
  • evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
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