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

  • nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
  • north charleston — a city in SE South Carolina.
  • not miss a trick — to be very alert
  • oak leaf cluster — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a small bronze twig bearing four oak leaves and three acorns, worn on the ribbon of another decoration for valor, wounds, or distinguished service to signify a second award of the same medal.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • ohmic resistance — resistance (def 3a).
  • oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
  • on the scrapheap — (of people or things) having outlived their usefulness
  • one's cup of tea — the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
  • 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.
  • optical illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
  • optical scanning — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
  • optical tweezers — a laser device used to study, manipulate, or trap a microscopic object, as a microorganism or cell, with nanometer precision.
  • orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
  • osculating plane — the plane containing the circle of curvature of a point on a given curve.
  • osmotic pressure — the force that a dissolved substance exerts on a semipermeable membrane, through which it cannot penetrate, when separated by it from pure solvent.
  • osteoarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the study of bones found at archaeological sites
  • outside director — a director of a company who is not employed by that company but is often employed by a holding or associated company
  • over-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • over-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • over-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • overcautiousness — the quality or state of being too cautious, wary, or careful
  • overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
  • overcompensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • overenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • oversubscription — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
  • ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • pascal's theorem — the theorem that the lines joining adjacent vertices of a hexagon intersect the same straight line if alternate vertices lie on two intersecting straight lines.
  • passport control — identity check at airport, etc.
  • paterson's curse — a purple-flowered noxious plant, Echium plantagineum, a close relative of viper's bugloss, naturalized in Australia and NZ where its harmfulness to livestock has prompted attempts to limit its spread
  • pectoralis major — the larger of the two large chest muscles that assist in movements of the shoulder and upper arm
  • pectoralis minor — the smaller of the two large chest muscles that assist in movements of the shoulder and upper arm
  • pentatonic scale — a scale having five tones to an octave, as one having intervals that correspond to the five black keys of a piano octave.
  • people's charter — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
  • performance test — a test requiring little or no use of language, the test materials being designed to elicit manual or behavioral responses rather than verbal ones.
  • personal effects — belongings
  • personality cult — deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader
  • phantasmagorical — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • pharmacogenetics — the branch of pharmacology that examines the relation of genetic factors to variations in response to drugs.
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