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16-letter words containing t, o, a, l, y

  • cashless society — a society in which purchases of goods or services are made by credit card or electronic funds transferral rather than with cash or checks.
  • catastrophically — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
  • category listing — A category listing is a list of different product categories such as menswear, womenswear, and childrenswear.
  • category planner — A category planner is a person whose job to plan and co-ordinate future inventory and sales volume in one or more product categories.
  • chernobyl packet — (networking)   /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ A network packet that induces a broadcast storm and/or network meltdown, named in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ethernet address and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between. Compare Christmas tree packet.
  • chiclet keyboard — (hardware, abuse)   A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of Chiclets chewing gum. Used especially to describe the original IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors unanimously liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early portable and laptop computers were launched with them. Customers rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets are not often seen on anything larger than a digital watch any more.
  • cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
  • cladogenetically — By means of cladogenesis.
  • clean technology — techniques used in manufacturing processes that minimize the damage caused to the environment
  • climatologically — In climatological terms.
  • close by/at hand — Something that is close by or close at hand is near to you.
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • colorimetrically — (analytical chemistry) By means of colorimetry or by using a colorimeter.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commodity dollar — the unit of a proposed system of currency, that would have a fluctuating gold value determined at regular intervals on the basis of an official index of the prices of key commodities
  • commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • companionability — The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
  • complexity class — (algorithm)   A collection of algorithms or computable functions with the same complexity.
  • composite family — the large and varied plant family Compositae (or Asteraceae), typified by herbaceous plants having alternate, opposite, or whorled leaves and a whorl of bracts surrounding the flower heads, which are usually composed of a disk containing tiny petalless flowers and a ray of petals extending from the flowers at the rim of the disk, some flower heads being composed only of a disk or a ray and some plants having clusters of flower heads, and including the aster, daisy, dandelion, goldenrod, marigold, ragweed, sunflower, thistle, and zinnia.
  • compositionality — The property of being compositional.
  • consequentiality — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
  • conspiratorially — the act of conspiring.
  • constitutionally — in composition or physique
  • constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
  • constructionally — In a constructional manner.
  • 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.
  • continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
  • contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
  • control freakery — an obsessive need to be in control of what is happening
  • controversiality — The quality or state of being controversial.
  • conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
  • coreferentiality — (of two words or phrases) having reference to the same person or thing.
  • corporate lawyer — a lawyer who works for a corporation
  • counterfactually — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
  • croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
  • cryptozoological — (cryptozoology) Of or pertaining to cryptozoology.
  • 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.
  • cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
  • cyclohexamantane — (chemistry) A certain diamondoid, C26H30.
  • cytotrophoblasts — Plural form of cytotrophoblast.
  • daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
  • deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
  • delayed reaction — response after an interval
  • denominationally — In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.
  • depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
  • depolymerization — (chemistry) The decomposition of a polymer into smaller fragments.
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