16-letter words containing o, r, a, i
- civil air patrol — a voluntary organization performing emergency services, as assisting the U.S. Air Force on search missions, and offering aerospace-education and youth programs: founded 1941. Abbreviation: CAP.
- cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
- cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
- cloakroom ticket — a ticket given to someone who checks a coat or other personal item into a cloakroom and which is used to redeem that item at a later period
- cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
- 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
- coadministration — Joint administration.
- 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
- code of practice — A code of practice is a set of written rules which explains how people working in a particular profession should behave.
- coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
- collaborationism — The act of collaborating, especially with an enemy.
- collaborationist — A collaborationist government or individual is one that helps or gives support to the enemy during the war.
- colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
- colorimetrically — (analytical chemistry) By means of colorimetry or by using a colorimeter.
- combination door — an outside door having a frame into which different types of panels can be inserted, as a screen for summer or storm sash for winter.
- combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
- combination room — (at Cambridge University) a common room
- come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
- commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
- commercial break — A commercial break is the interval during a commercial television programme, or between programmes, during which advertisements are shown.
- commercial paper — a short-term negotiable document, such as a bill of exchange, promissory note, etc, calling for the transference of a specified sum of money at a designated date
- commercial pilot — an airplane pilot licensed to transport passengers, goods, etc.
- 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
- common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
- common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
- communitarianism — A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities.
- community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
- community leader — a leading figure in a community
- companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
- compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
- compartmentalize — To compartmentalize something means to divide it into separate sections.
- compartmentation — subdivision of a hull into spaces enclosed by watertight bulkheads and sometimes by watertight decks.
- complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
- complex variable — a variable to which complex numbers may be assigned as value.
- compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
- concertina crash — a collision in which vehicle after vehicle hits the one ahead in a sequence of events triggered by the first car crash
- concertina table — an extensible table having a hinged double top falling onto a hinged frame that unfolds like an accordion when pulled out.
- conciliatoriness — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
- confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
- confederationist — A supporter of confederation.
- configurationism — Gestalt psychology
- confrontationist — a person who confronts opposition, especially aggressively.
- congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
- congressionalist — of or relating to a congress.
- conservation law — any law stating that some quantity or property remains constant during and after an interaction or process, as conservation of charge or conservation of linear momentum.
- conservationists — Plural form of conservationist.
- conservative jew — a Jew who adheres for the most part to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism with the reservation that, taking into account contemporary conditions, certain modifications or rejections are permissible.
- conservativeness — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.