16-letter words containing s, y, c, o, i
- constructibility — The condition of being constructible.
- constructionally — In a constructional manner.
- 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.
- content analysis — analysis to determine the meaning, purpose, or effect of any type of communication, as literature, newspapers, or broadcasts, by studying and evaluating the details, innuendoes, and implications of the content, recurrent themes, etc.
- controversiality — The quality or state of being controversial.
- conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
- 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.
- coronary cushion — a thick band of vascular tissue in the coronet of horses and other hoofed animals that secretes the horny wall of the hoof.
- cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
- cost-effectively — in a cost-effective way; efficiently
- cost-efficiently — cost-effective.
- cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
- crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
- 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.
- crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
- 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
- cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
- cytotechnologist — a technician who specializes in identifying cells and cellular abnormalities.
- debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- discographically — In terms of discography.
- discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
- discriminatorily — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
- dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
- dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
- electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
- electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
- electrosynthesis — synthesis produced by means of an electric current
- eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
- glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
- hydrostatic head — The hydrostatic head is the vertical height of a column of fluid.
- hypercorrections — Plural form of hypercorrection.
- hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
- hypocoristically — In a hypocoristic manner.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- hypophysectomies — Plural form of hypophysectomy.
- hypostatic union — (In Cristianity) Christ's condition of being, at the same time, both human and divine
- ichthyophthirius — ich.
- iconoclastically — In an iconoclastic way.
- incombustibility — The quality or state of being incombustible.
- incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.