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16-letter words containing s, c, r, o

  • cross protection — the protection against a viral infection given to a plant by its prior inoculation with a related but milder virus
  • cross-curricular — denoting or relating to an approach to a topic that includes contributions from several different disciplines and viewpoints
  • cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
  • cross-resistance — immunologic resistance to the pathogenic effects of a microorganism because of previous exposure to another species or type having cross-reactive antigens.
  • cross-validation — a process by which a method that works for one sample of a population is checked for validity by applying the method to another sample from the same population.
  • crossbow archery — the sport of shooting with a crossbow
  • crosscontaminate — Alternative spelling of cross-contaminate.
  • crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
  • crossover bodice — a bodice which has one side crossing over the other
  • crossword puzzle — a puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal pattern
  • crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
  • crown prosecutor — In Britain, a crown prosecutor is a lawyer who works for the state and who prosecutes people who are accused of crimes.
  • cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • 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.
  • curbstone broker — a broker in the early American stockmarket who did business in the street
  • curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
  • customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
  • customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
  • customer service — Customer service refers to the way that companies behave towards their customers, for example how well they treat them.
  • customer support — Customer support is a service provided to help customers resolve any technical problems that they may have with a product or service.
  • cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin
  • cycle of erosion — the hypothetical sequence of modifications to the earth's surface by erosion, from the original uplift of the land to the ultimate low plain, usually divided into the youthful, mature, and old stages
  • cystourethrocele — A urethrocele occurring with a cystocele.
  • cytotrophoblasts — Plural form of cytotrophoblast.
  • dacryocystectomy — The surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.
  • data abstraction — (data)   Any representation of data in which the implementation details are hidden (abstracted). Abstract data types and objects are the two primary forms of data abstraction.
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
  • dead sea scrolls — a collection of manuscripts in Hebrew and Aramaic discovered in caves near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956. They are widely held to have been written between about 100 bc and 68 ad and provide important biblical evidence
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
  • dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • demoiselle crane — a gray crane, Anthropoides virgo, of northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, having long, white plumes behind each eye.
  • destroyer escort — a lightly armed warship smaller than a destroyer, designed to escort fleets or convoys
  • devonshire cream — clotted cream.
  • diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
  • diamond district — the part of a town where diamond merchants and jewellers have their businesses
  • diodorus siculus — late 1st century b.c, Greek historian.
  • diplomatic corps — the entire body of diplomats accredited to and resident at a court or capital.
  • direct discourse — quotation of a speaker in which the speaker's exact words are repeated.
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • direction cosine — the cosine of the angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
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