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16-letter words containing n, o, c, r, i, m

  • chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
  • chronic glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • circumambulation — The act of walking around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
  • circumlocutional — Of or relating to circumlocution : circumlocutionary.
  • circumnavigation — to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
  • circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
  • circumscriptions — Plural form of circumscription.
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • co-determination — a system of industrial management in which workers share responsibility for the operation of a company, as through elected representation on a corporate supervisory board
  • coadministration — Joint administration.
  • cochlear implant — a device that stimulates the acoustic nerve in the inner ear in order to produce some form of hearing in people who are deaf from inner ear disease
  • collaborationism — The act of collaborating, especially with an enemy.
  • combination door — an outside door having a frame into which different types of panels can be inserted, as a screen for summer or storm sash for winter.
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • combination room — (at Cambridge University) a common room
  • combined honours — (in British education) a degree course that includes more than one subject
  • come from behind — sport: win from a disadvantaged position
  • come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commissionership — The role or office of commissioner.
  • common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • communitarianism — A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities.
  • 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 church — an independent or denominational church in a particular community.
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • community spirit — willingness and desire to participate in activities that promote a community
  • community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
  • companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
  • compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
  • compartmentalize — To compartmentalize something means to divide it into separate sections.
  • compartmentation — subdivision of a hull into spaces enclosed by watertight bulkheads and sometimes by watertight decks.
  • complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
  • composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
  • compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
  • compromise joint — a joint for linking together rails having different sections.
  • computer science — the study of computers and their application
  • confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
  • configurationism — Gestalt psychology
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • continuous miner — continuous cutter.
  • 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.
  • controversialism — The attitude or tendency to engage in controversy.
  • copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
  • coram non judice — before a court lacking the authority to hear and decide the case in question.
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