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16-letter words containing o, m, e, n, t

  • autotransformers — Plural form of autotransformer.
  • autumnal equinox — the time at which the sun crosses the plane of the equator away from the relevant hemisphere, making day and night of equal length. It occurs about Sept 23 in the N hemisphere (March 21 in the S hemisphere)
  • badminton racket — the type of racket used in games of badminton
  • balloon mortgage — A balloon mortgage is a mortgage on which the repayments are relatively small until the large final payment.
  • baltimore canyon — a submarine valley cut into the continental shelf and slope seaward of Chesapeake Bay.
  • barium carbonate — a white, poisonous, water-insoluble powder, BaCO 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of rodenticides, paints, and dyes.
  • baron tweedsmuir — the title of Scottish novelist John Buchan
  • basement complex — the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
  • bathroom cabinet — a wall-mounted cabinet in a bathroom, typically with a mirror front and used for the storage of medicines and toiletries
  • be on the market — to be offered for sale
  • be the making of — to cause the success of
  • bed-sitting room — a combined bedroom and sitting room serving as a one-room apartment
  • benito mussolini — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Italian be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Italian bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), (I"Il Duce") 1883–1945, Italian Fascist leader: premier of Italy 1922–43.
  • benoit samuelson — Joan (Joan Benoit) born 1957, U.S. distance runner: first Olympic marathon women's winner, 1984.
  • bertillon system — a system formerly in use for identifying persons, esp criminals, by means of a detailed record of physical characteristics
  • bethmann hollweg — Theobald von (ˈteːobalt fɔn). 1856–1921, chancellor of Germany (1909–17)
  • bethmann-hollweg — Theobald von [tey-oh-bahlt fuh n] /ˈteɪ oʊˌbɑlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1856–1921, German statesman: chancellor 1909–17.
  • binet-simon test — an intelligence test that consists of questions, problems, and things to do, graded in terms of mental age
  • binomial theorem — a mathematical theorem that gives the expansion of any binomial raised to a positive integral power, n. It contains n + 1 terms: (x + a)n = xn + nxn–1a + [n(n–1)/2] xn–2a2 +…+ (nk) xn–kak + … + an, where (nk) = n!/(n–k)!k!, the number of combinations of k items selected from n
  • bioenvironmental — pertaining to the environment of living organisms: Bioenvironmental engineers seek to reduce air and water pollution.
  • boatswain's mate — a job classification in the US navy
  • boston cream pie — a cake of two layers with icing and a creamy filling
  • brompton mixture — a mixture of narcotics, tranquilizers, and alcohol, used to kill pain for terminally ill patients
  • brown house moth — a species of micro moth, Hofmannophila pseudospretella, which, although it usually inhabits birds' nests, sometimes enters houses where its larvae can be very destructive of stored fabrics and foodstuffs
  • camborne-redruth — a former (until 1974) urban district in SW England, in Cornwall: formed in 1934 by the amalgamation of the neighbouring towns of Camborne and Redruth. Pop: 39 936 (2001)
  • capital movement — the payments that flow between countries
  • capsizing moment — the moment of an upsetting couple.
  • carnot's theorem — the principle that no engine operating between two given temperatures can be more efficient than a Carnot engine operating between the same temperatures.
  • century meltdown — Year 2000
  • chemoluminescent — (chemistry) Exhibiting chemoluminescence.
  • chlorinated lime — bleaching powder.
  • cholera infantum — an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.
  • choriomeningitis — (medicine) A form of cerebral meningitis associated with inflammation of the choroid plexus.
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • clermont-ferrand — a city in S central France: capital of Puy-de-Dôme department; industrial centre. Pop: 140 957 (2011)
  • clootie dumpling — a boiled suet pudding containing dried fruits
  • closed community — a plant community that does not allow for further colonization, all the available niches being occupied
  • 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
  • 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
  • coital exanthema — a common venereal disease affecting horses and cattle, caused by a virus and characterized by the appearance of pustules on the mucous membranes of the genital organs and neighboring skin.
  • column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
  • combining weight — the atomic weight of an atom or radical divided by its valence.
  • come and get it! — the meal is ready!
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commensurateness — The state or quality of being commensurate.
  • commission agent — a person who sells goods and services for a fee
  • committee of one — an individual person designated to function alone as a committee.
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
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