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16-letter words containing s, i, t, r

  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • communitarianism — A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities.
  • community spirit — willingness and desire to participate in activities that promote a community
  • compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
  • composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
  • compromise joint — a joint for linking together rails having different sections.
  • computer science — the study of computers and their application
  • computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
  • concertina crash — a collision in which vehicle after vehicle hits the one ahead in a sequence of events triggered by the first car crash
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • conspiratorially — the act of conspiring.
  • constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
  • constructibility — The condition of being constructible.
  • constructionally — In a constructional manner.
  • constructionists — Plural form of constructionist.
  • constructiveness — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • consulting hours — the hours during which health practitioners are available for consultation
  • consumer society — You can use consumer society to refer to a society where people think that spending money on goods and services is very important.
  • contemporariness — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • continental rise — the gently sloping transition between the continental slope and the deep ocean floor, usually characterized by coalescence of submarine alluvial fans.
  • continuous miner — continuous cutter.
  • contrabassoonist — Someone who plays the contrabassoon.
  • contractarianism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
  • controversialism — The attitude or tendency to engage in controversy.
  • controversialist — a person who takes part in controversy or likes to do so
  • controversiality — The quality or state of being controversial.
  • controversialize — (transitive) To make to appear controversial.
  • conus arteriosus — the most anterior part of the simple tubular heart of lower vertebrates and embryos of higher vertebrates, leading into the artery that leaves the heart; in mammals it forms a part of the upper wall of the right ventricle, in which the pulmonary artery originates.
  • conversation pit — a usually sunken portion of a room or living area with chairs, sofas, etc., often grouped around a fireplace, where people can gather to talk.
  • conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • conversion ratio — (in a reactor) the number of fissionable atoms produced by each fissionable atom that is destroyed.
  • conversion table — a diagram which shows equivalent amounts in different measuring systems
  • convertible lens — a lens containing two or more elements that can be used individually or in combination to provide a variety of focal lengths.
  • 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.
  • cordon sanitaire — a guarded line serving to cut off an infected area
  • core description — A core description is a summary of the information about a rock sample, found by core analysis.
  • cornet à pistons — a three-valved brass instrument of the trumpet family. Written range: about two and a half octaves upwards from E below middle C. It is a transposing instrument in B flat or A
  • cornet-a-pistons — cornet (def 1).
  • corona australis — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere between Ara and Pavo
  • coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
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