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16-letter words containing o, i, c

  • nonfiction novel — a narrative dealing with real events and people, written in the form of a novel.
  • nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
  • nonharmonic tone — a tone sounding with a chord of which it is not a chord tone.
  • nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
  • nonparticipating — (of a person or thing) not participating: No penalties were given to nonparticipating students.
  • nonparticipation — absence of participation: Nonparticipation of citizens in political matters hampers efforts toward better government.
  • nonphysiological — of or relating to physiology.
  • nonreciprocating — Not reciprocating; not responding in kind.
  • north carolinian — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 52,586 sq. mi. (136,198 sq. km). Capital: Raleigh. Abbreviation: NC (for use with zip code), N.C.
  • north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.
  • not miss a trick — to be very alert
  • nouvelle cuisine — a modern style of French cooking that emphasizes the use of the finest and freshest ingredients simply and imaginatively prepared, often with fresh herbs, the artful arrangement and presentation of food, and the use of reduced stocks in place of flour-thickened sauces.
  • nuclear emulsion — a photographic emulsion in the form of a thick block, used to record the tracks of elementary particles.
  • nuclear reaction — reaction (def 8).
  • nucleophilically — In a nucleophilic manner.
  • objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
  • objective spirit — the human spirit, insofar as it has become capable of a rational identification of its individual self with the community of other spirits but is not yet capable of the identification with the absolute idea that characterizes the absolute spirit.
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • obstructionistic — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • obtuse bisectrix — See under bisectrix (def 1).
  • occasional table — a small table with no regular use
  • occipitotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the occiput and temporal lobe.
  • occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
  • octanedioic acid — a colourless crystalline dicarboxylic acid found in suberin and castor oil and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: HOOC(CH2)6COOH
  • october surprise — a major event, occurring shortly before a presidential election, which influences the result
  • odontoid process — the toothlike upward projection at the back of the second vertebra of the neck
  • oesophagogastric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the oesophagus and the stomach.
  • of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
  • of it own accord — If something happens of its own accord, it seems to happen by itself, without anyone making it happen.
  • off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
  • official referee — (in England) a circuit judge attached to the High Court who is empowered to try certain cases, esp where a detailed examination of accounts or other documents is involved
  • ohmic resistance — resistance (def 3a).
  • oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
  • oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
  • once upon a time — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
  • 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.
  • onomatopoeically — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
  • open punctuation — punctuation characterized by sparing use of stops, esp of the comma
  • open scholarship — a scholarship which anyone can apply for
  • opening ceremony — a ceremony held in celebration of the start of something
  • operating income — revenue from business operations after operating expenses are deducted from gross income.
  • ophthalmological — Pertaining to ophthalmology.
  • 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.
  • opposed-cylinder — (of an internal-combustion engine) having cylinders on opposite sides of the crankcase in the same plane
  • optical activity — the ability of a substance to rotate the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light.
  • optical computer — an experimental computer that uses photons rather than electrical impulses to process data a thousand times faster than with conventional integrated circuits.
  • optical illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
  • optical rotation — the angle at which the plane of polarized light is rotated when passed through an optically active substance.
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