16-letter words containing t, r, e, l
- convertible lens — a lens containing two or more elements that can be used individually or in combination to provide a variety of focal lengths.
- 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.
- coromandel coast — the SE coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, extending from Point Calimere to the mouth of the Krishna River
- coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
- corporate ladder — the hierarchy of posts with a particular corporation or corporations in general
- corporate lawyer — a lawyer who works for a corporation
- correcting plate — a thin lens used to correct incoming light rays in special forms of reflecting telescopes.
- correction fluid — a fluid, usually white, that can be painted over a mistake in writing or typing so that the correct form can be written or typed on top
- council of trent — the council of the Roman Catholic Church that met between 1545 and 1563 at Trent in S Tyrol. Reacting against the Protestants, it reaffirmed traditional Catholic beliefs and formulated the ideals of the Counter-Reformation
- counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
- counter-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
- counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
- counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
- counterculturist — Counterculturalist.
- counterfactually — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- counterguerrilla — (of operations, conflicts, etc) conducted against guerrillas
- counterproposals — Plural form of counterproposal.
- court of appeals — A Court of Appeals is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
- cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
- creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
- creole continuum — a range of language varieties in an area undergoing decreolization showing a continuous gradation from forms more like the underlying creole to those approaching the standard language.
- criminal justice — the system of law enforcement, involving police, lawyers, courts, and corrections, used for all stages of criminal proceedings and punishment.
- critical density — the density of matter that would be required to halt the expansion of the universe
- critical section — A non-re-entrant piece of code that can only be executed by one process at a time. It will usually terminate in bounded time and a process will only have to wait a bounded time to enter it. Some synchronisation mechanism is required at the entry and exit of the critical section to ensure exclusive use.
- cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
- cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
- 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
- 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
- crystalline lens — a biconvex transparent elastic structure in the eye situated behind the iris, serving to focus images on the retina
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- curriculum vitae — A curriculum vitae is the same as a CV.
- customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
- cystourethrocele — A urethrocele occurring with a cystocele.
- dangling pointer — (programming) A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
- 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.
- dear john letter — a letter from someone (esp to a man) breaking off a love affair
- debenture holder — a person or organization holds a debenture
- decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
- decentralization — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
- decimal fraction — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- definite article — The word 'the' is sometimes called the definite article.
- 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
- deflecting force — the apparent deflection (Coriolis acceleration) of a body in motion with respect to the earth, as seen by an observer on the earth, attributed to a fictitious force (Coriolis force) but actually caused by the rotation of the earth and appearing as a deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and a deflection to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
- deindustrialised — Simple past tense and past participle of deindustrialise.
- deindustrialized — Simple past tense and past participle of deindustrialize.
- delayed reaction — response after an interval
- deliberativeness — The state or quality of being deliberative.