16-letter words containing n, o, c, d, u
- greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
- gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
- health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
- incommodiousness — The state or quality of being incommodious.
- indian liquorice — a woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius, native to tropical Asia and naturalized elsewhere, having scarlet black-spotted poisonous seeds, used as beads, and roots used as a substitute for liquorice
- induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
- induction course — training for new job
- induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
- infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
- infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
- john of damascus — Saint, a.d. c675–749, priest, theologian, and scholar of the Eastern Church, born in Damascus.
- judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
- kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
- labrador current — a cold ocean current flowing southwards off the coast of Labrador and meeting the warm Gulf Stream, causing dense fogs off the coast of Newfoundland
- lenticular cloud — a very smooth, round or oval, lens-shaped cloud that is often seen, singly or stacked in groups, near a mountain ridge.
- machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
- magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
- mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
- monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
- moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
- moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
- multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- mutual induction — the production of an electromotive force in one circuit by a change in current in another circuit.
- nevado de toluca — a volcano in central Mexico, in Mexico state near Toluca: crater partly filled by a lake. Height: 4577 m (15 017 ft)
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- non-reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- non-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- non-reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- numbered account — a bank account whose owner is identified by a number for the purpose of preserving anonymity.
- oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
- onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
- oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
- order in council — (in Britain and various other Commonwealth countries) a decree of the Cabinet, usually made under the authority of a statute: in theory a decree of the sovereign and Privy Council
- out of condition — If someone is out of condition, they are unhealthy and unfit, because they do not do enough exercise.
- oxonium compound — a salt formed by the reaction of an acid with an organic compound containing a basic oxygen atom.
- panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
- percussion drill — a drill that is operated by percussion
- picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
- pilot production — sth produced on a trial basis
- process industry — business of treating raw materials