16-letter words containing o, c, t, y, l
- commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
- commodity dollar — the unit of a proposed system of currency, that would have a fluctuating gold value determined at regular intervals on the basis of an official index of the prices of key commodities
- commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
- community leader — a leading figure in a community
- community school — a school offering some nonacademic activities related to life in a particular community and often serving as a community centre
- companionability — The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
- complexity class — (algorithm) A collection of algorithms or computable functions with the same complexity.
- composite family — the large and varied plant family Compositae (or Asteraceae), typified by herbaceous plants having alternate, opposite, or whorled leaves and a whorl of bracts surrounding the flower heads, which are usually composed of a disk containing tiny petalless flowers and a ray of petals extending from the flowers at the rim of the disk, some flower heads being composed only of a disk or a ray and some plants having clusters of flower heads, and including the aster, daisy, dandelion, goldenrod, marigold, ragweed, sunflower, thistle, and zinnia.
- compositionality — The property of being compositional.
- consequentiality — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
- conspiratorially — the act of conspiring.
- constitutionally — in composition or physique
- constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
- constructibility — The condition of being constructible.
- constructionally — In a constructional manner.
- 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 plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
- control freakery — an obsessive need to be in control of what is happening
- 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
- copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
- coreferentiality — (of two words or phrases) having reference to the same person or thing.
- corporate lawyer — a lawyer who works for a corporation
- cost-effectively — in a cost-effective way; efficiently
- cost-efficiently — cost-effective.
- counterfactually — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- 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
- cryptozoological — (cryptozoology) Of or pertaining to cryptozoology.
- cryptozoologists — Plural form of cryptozoologist.
- crystal detector — a demodulator, used esp in microwave circuits and in early radio receivers, consisting of a thin metal wire in point contact with a semiconductor crystal
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
- cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
- cyclohexamantane — (chemistry) A certain diamondoid, C26H30.
- 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]>.
- cystourethrocele — A urethrocele occurring with a cystocele.
- cytotechnologist — a technician who specializes in identifying cells and cellular abnormalities.
- cytotoxic t cell — a killer T cell
- cytotrophoblasts — Plural form of cytotrophoblast.
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- delayed reaction — response after an interval
- depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
- dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- dictionary flame — [Usenet] An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer argument over definitions to disputes about reality. Compare spelling flame.
- diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
- dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
- discriminatorily — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.