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16-letter words containing n, e, o, c, f

  • heat of reaction — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a product is formed at constant pressure
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • house of commons — the elective, lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, and various other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • hydroferricyanic — (chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen.
  • hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
  • immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
  • in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
  • infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
  • infelicitousness — (linguistics, pragmatics) The quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed.
  • infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
  • informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
  • infostreet, inc. — (company)   An Internet consulting and development company dedicated to assisting companies in establishing an Internet presence. InfoStreet develope Internet strategies, design and create web pages, and host and maintain websites. InfoStreet, has been recognized by PC/Computing as the "Best of the Top Home Page Services" (August 1996) and has been featured in Netguide magazine and the Wiley and Son's Electronic Marketing book.
  • intensifications — Plural form of intensification.
  • inverse function — the function that replaces another function when the dependent and independent variables of the first function are interchanged for an appropriate set of values of the dependent variable. In y = sin x and x = arc sin y, the inverse function of sine is arc sine.
  • josephson effect — a high-speed switch, used in experimental computers, that operates on the basis of a radiative phenomenon (Jo·sephson effect) exhibited by a pair of superconductors separated by a thin insulator.
  • juvenile officer — a police officer concerned with juvenile delinquents.
  • leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
  • louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.
  • lower california — Baja California.
  • man of the cloth — a clergyman or other ecclesiastic.
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
  • misspecification — An incorrect specification.
  • money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
  • monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
  • montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
  • motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
  • narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
  • neo-confucianist — of or relating to neo-Confucians or neo-Confucianism.
  • newspaper office — an office where the editorial and production staff of a newspaper work
  • nick someone for — to defraud someone to the extent of
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • non-confidential — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • nonfiction novel — a narrative dealing with real events and people, written in the form of a novel.
  • nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
  • of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
  • off one's rocker — Also called runner. one of the curved pieces on which a cradle or a rocking chair rocks.
  • old north french — the dialect of Old French spoken in northern France. Abbreviation: ONF.
  • on the back foot — at a disadvantage; outmanoeuvred or outclassed by an opponent
  • once and for all — former; having at one time been: the once and future king.
  • one's cup of tea — the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
  • one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics)   A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
  • ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
  • ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • peace conference — a conference where representatives of warring governments or countries sign a treaty to end conflict
  • peregrine falcon — a globally distributed falcon, Falco peregrinus, much used in falconry because of its swift flight: several subspecies are endangered.
  • performance bond — contract bond.
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