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16-letter words containing s, y, m

  • consonant system — the consonant phonemes of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
  • couvade syndrome — a psychosomatic condition in which the spouse or partner of a pregnant woman experiences symptoms of childbirth or pregnancy
  • cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
  • crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
  • customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • dacryocystectomy — The surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.
  • depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
  • dialysis machine — device: kidney treatment
  • digestive system — the system by which ingested food is acted upon by physical and chemical means to provide the body with absorbable nutrients and to excrete waste products; in mammals the system includes the alimentary canal extending from the mouth to the anus, and the hormones and enzymes assisting in digestion.
  • dimethyl sulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • 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.
  • discriminability — The condition of being discriminable.
  • discriminatingly — With discrimination.
  • 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.
  • display terminal — Visual Display Unit
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • dynamic analysis — (programming)   Evaluation of a program based on its execution. Dynamic analysis relies on executing a piece of software with selected test data.
  • dynamic markings — directions and symbols used to indicate degrees of loudness
  • dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
  • e-carrier system — (communications)   A series of digital transmission formats promulgated by the ITU and used outside of North America and Japan. The basic unit of the E-carrier system is the DS0, which has a transmission rate of 64 Kbps, and is commonly used for one voice circuit. The E1 format consists of 32 DS0 channels, for a total capacity of 2.048 Mbps. E2, E3, E4, and E5 circuits carry multiple E1 channels multiplexed, resulting in transmission rates of up to 565.148 Mbps. The E-carrier system is similar to, and compatible with, the T-carrier system used in North America, but has higher capacity since it uses out-of-band signaling in contrast to the in-band signaling or bit-robbing used in the T-system.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • economy of scale — a fall in average costs resulting from an increase in the scale of production
  • electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
  • erlenmeyer flask — conical container used in laboratory
  • extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • family physician — a general practitioner.
  • fertility symbol — an object, esp a phallic symbol, used in fertility-cult ceremonies to symbolize regeneration
  • first-time buyer — someone who is buying his or her first house
  • flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
  • flynn's taxonomy — (architecture)   A classification of computer architectures based on the number of streams of instructions and data: Multiple instruction/single data stream (MISD) - unusual.
  • general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
  • glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
  • goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
  • grammar analysis — (language)   A program written in ABC for answering such questions as "what are the start symbols of all rules", "what symbols can follow this symbol", "which rules are left recursive", and so on. Includes a grammar of ISO Pascal. Version 1 by Steven Pemberton <[email protected]>. Ports to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Macintosh. FTP: ftp.eu.net, ftp.nluug.net programming/languages/abc/examples/grammar/.
  • gynandromorphism — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • hamadryas baboon — a baboon, Papio (Comopithecus) hamadryas, of Ethiopia, the male of which has a mantle of long, dark hair about the head and shoulders: held sacred by the ancient Egyptians.
  • hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
  • haversian system — a Haversian canal and the series of concentric bony plates surrounding it.
  • hayes-compatible — (communications)   A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
  • haymarket square — a square in Chicago: scene of a riot (Haymarket Riot) in 1886 between police and labor unionists.
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