16-letter words containing n, u, c, l, e, o
- collision course — If two or more people or things are on a collision course, there is likely to be a sudden and violent disagreement between them.
- column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
- command language — the language used to access a computer system
- commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
- communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
- community leader — a leading figure in a community
- companion volume — a book that complements another on a related subject, usually by the same author
- complex pendulum — a complex structure mounted so that it can swing freely under the influence of gravity
- complicitousness — (rare, possibly nonstandard) Complicity.
- concurrent clean — (language) An alternative name for Clean 1.0.
- confused elderly — old and no longer having mental abilities sufficient for independent living
- congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
- conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
- consanguineously — In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.
- consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
- consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
- consequentialist — the theory that human actions derive their moral worth solely from their outcomes or consequences.
- consequentiality — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
- consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- contour interval — the difference in altitude represented by the space between two contour lines on a map
- control language — (language) (CL) The batch language for IBM RPG/38, used in conjunction with RPG III. See also OCL.
- contumeliousness — The state or quality of being contumelious.
- coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
- correction fluid — a fluid, usually white, that can be painted over a mistake in writing or typing so that the correct form can be written or typed on top
- council of state — a council that deliberates on high-level policies of a government.
- council of trent — the council of the Roman Catholic Church that met between 1545 and 1563 at Trent in S Tyrol. Reacting against the Protestants, it reaffirmed traditional Catholic beliefs and formulated the ideals of the Counter-Reformation
- counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
- counter-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
- counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
- counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
- counterculturist — Counterculturalist.
- counterfactually — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- counterguerrilla — (of operations, conflicts, etc) conducted against guerrillas
- counterproposals — Plural form of counterproposal.
- creole continuum — a range of language varieties in an area undergoing decreolization showing a continuous gradation from forms more like the underlying creole to those approaching the standard language.
- cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
- crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- cut one's losses — to give up spending time, money, or energy on an unprofitable or unsuccessful activity
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- decontextualized — removed from the usual context
- denuclearization — The act or process of denuclearizing.
- deoxyribonucleic — (genetics) Of or pertaining to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or its derivatives.
- deuterocanonical — of or constituting a second or subsequent canon; specif., designating certain Biblical books accepted as canonical in the Roman Catholic Church, but held by Protestants to be apocryphal
- distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
- documentary film — factual, informative film
- double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
- double occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as in a hotel, for two persons sharing the same room: The rate is $35 per person, double occupancy, or $65, single occupancy.
- double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.