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16-letter words containing n, i, e, t, y

  • brittany spaniel — a short-tailed French bird dog that typically has a smooth orange- or liver-and-white coat
  • building society — In Britain, a building society is a business which will lend you money when you want to buy a house. You can also invest money in a building society, where it will earn interest. Compare savings and loan association.
  • bunker mentality — a defensive attitude in which others are seen as hostile or potentially hostile
  • burgundy trefoil — alfalfa.
  • business analyst — (job)   A person who analyses the operations of a department or functional unit to develop a general systems solution to the problem. The solution will typically involve a combination of manual and automated processes. The business analyst can provide insights into an operation for an information systems analyst.
  • bypass operation — an operation involving redirection of blood flow, either to avoid a diseased blood vessel or in order to perform heart surgery
  • byzantine church — Orthodox Church (def 1).
  • byzantine empire — the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, esp after the deposition of the last emperor in Rome (476 ad). It was finally extinguished by the fall of Constantinople, its capital, in 1453
  • can you beat it? — an expression of utter amazement or surprise
  • case sensitivity — (text)   Whether a text matching operation distinguishes upper-case (capital) letters from lower case (is "case sensitive") or not ("case insensitive"). Case in file names should be preserved (for readability) but ignored when matching (so the user doesn't have to get it right). MS-DOS does not preserve case in file names, Unix preserves case and matches are case sensitive. Any decent text editor will allow the user to specify whether or not text searches should be case sensitive. Case sensitivity is also relevant in programming (most programming languages distiguish between case in the names of identifiers), and addressing (Internet domain names are case insensitive but RFC 822 local mailbox names are case sensitive). Case insensitive operations are sometimes said to "fold case", from the idea of folding the character code table so that upper and lower case letters coincide. The alternative "smash case" is more likely to be used by someone who considers this behaviour a misfeature or in cases where one case is actually permanently converted to the other. "MS-DOS will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create".
  • category listing — A category listing is a list of different product categories such as menswear, womenswear, and childrenswear.
  • cavity resonator — a conducting surface enclosing a space in which an oscillating electromagnetic field can be maintained, the dimensions of the cavity determining the resonant frequency of the oscillations. It is used in microwave devices for frequencies exceeding 300 megahertz
  • central cylinder — stele (def 4).
  • chryselephantine — (of ancient Greek statues) made of or overlaid with gold and ivory
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • cinnamyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 12 O 2 , having a piquant, flowerlike odor: used as a fixative in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • circuit analyzer — multimeter.
  • city of aberdeen — a council area in NE Scotland, established in 1996. Pop: 206 600 (2003 est). Area: 186 sq km (72 sq miles)
  • civic university — (in Britain) a university originally instituted as a higher education college serving a particular city
  • cladogenetically — By means of cladogenesis.
  • closed community — a plant community that does not allow for further colonization, all the available niches being occupied
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • community center — A community center is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
  • community centre — A community centre is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
  • consequentiality — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
  • conspicuity tape — a highly reflective strip or tape used on a vehicle, clothing, etc., to make it more visible in low light.
  • 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.
  • content analysis — analysis to determine the meaning, purpose, or effect of any type of communication, as literature, newspapers, or broadcasts, by studying and evaluating the details, innuendoes, and implications of the content, recurrent themes, etc.
  • continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
  • contingency fund — a sum of money allocated for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
  • contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
  • controversiality — The quality or state of being controversial.
  • conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
  • coreferentiality — (of two words or phrases) having reference to the same person or thing.
  • cost-efficiently — cost-effective.
  • cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
  • covariant theory — the principle that physical laws have the same form and interrelations in any system of coordinates in which they are expressed.
  • critical density — the density of matter that would be required to halt the expansion of the universe
  • crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
  • croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • crystalline lens — a biconvex transparent elastic structure in the eye situated behind the iris, serving to focus images on the retina
  • currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
  • cytotechnologist — a technician who specializes in identifying cells and cellular abnormalities.
  • darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
  • debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
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