16-letter words containing n, y, c, t, u
- cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
- cutoff frequency — a frequency level above or below which a device fails to respond or operate efficiently
- cygnus tcl tools — (tool) A rebundling of Tcl and Tk into the Cygnus GNU build framework with "configure" by david d 'zoo' zuhn <[email protected]>.
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- documentary film — factual, informative film
- dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
- enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
- french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
- get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
- giant's causeway — a large body of basalt, unusual in displaying perfect columnar jointing, exposed on a promontory on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.
- global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
- granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
- hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
- hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
- hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- hypostatic union — (In Cristianity) Christ's condition of being, at the same time, both human and divine
- incombustibility — The quality or state of being incombustible.
- incorruptibility — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
- indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
- 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.
- insusceptibility — not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to): insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
- intramolecularly — In an intramolecular manner; within a molecule.
- journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
- justices in eyre — the justices travelling on circuit and presiding over such courts
- kentucky warbler — a wood warbler, Oporornis formosus, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and marked with black on the face.
- kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
- lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
- luminosity class — a classification of stars of a given spectral type according to their luminosity, breaking them down into dwarfs, giants, and supergiants.
- mexican fruitfly — a brightly colored fly, Anastrepha ludens, whose larvae are a serious pest chiefly of citrus fruits and mangoes in Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas.
- minimum-security — (of a prison) designed for prisoners regarded as being less dangerous; having fewer restrictions.
- minute secretary — the person responsible for noting the minutes of a meeting
- money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
- monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
- multi-way branch — switch statement
- naturalistically — imitating nature or the usual natural surroundings.
- neurasthenically — In a neurasthenic way.
- neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
- nitrosylsulfuric — of or derived from nitrosylsulfuric acid.
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
- 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.
- 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.
- opportunity cost — the money or other benefits lost when pursuing a particular course of action instead of a mutually-exclusive alternative: The company cannot afford the opportunity cost attached to policy decisions made by the current CEO.
- perpendicularity — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- personality cult — deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader
- plymouth company — a company, formed in England in 1606 to establish colonies in America and that founded a colony in Maine in 1607.
- process industry — business of treating raw materials