16-letter words containing t, u, i, o, r, s
- configurationism — Gestalt psychology
- constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
- constructibility — The condition of being constructible.
- constructionally — In a constructional manner.
- constructionists — Plural form of constructionist.
- constructiveness — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- consulting hours — the hours during which health practitioners are available for consultation
- 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.
- continuous miner — continuous cutter.
- conus arteriosus — the most anterior part of the simple tubular heart of lower vertebrates and embryos of higher vertebrates, leading into the artery that leaves the heart; in mammals it forms a part of the upper wall of the right ventricle, in which the pulmonary artery originates.
- corona australis — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere between Ara and Pavo
- coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
- cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
- costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
- 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.
- counter-instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- 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.
- counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
- counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
- counterinsurgent — of or relating to counterinsurgency
- counterirritants — Plural form of counterirritant.
- counternarcotics — Measures or activities designed to prevent the use or distrubution of iillegal narcotic drugs.
- counteroffensive — a series of attacks by a defending force against an attacking enemy
- countersignature — second signature
- counterterrorism — Counterterrorism consists of activities that are intended to prevent terrorist acts or to get rid of terrorist groups.
- counterterrorist — Intended to combat terrorism.
- course of action — a way of proceeding
- coursewriter iii — (language, education) A simple CAI language, developed around 1976.
- court of justice — a legal court
- court of session — the supreme civil court in Scotland
- cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
- customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
- customer service — Customer service refers to the way that companies behave towards their customers, for example how well they treat them.
- data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
- davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
- deboursification — (jargon) Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
- decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
- dinosaurs mating — (humour) The activity said to occur when yet another big iron merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as "elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level, with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull. Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac, which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988 and later others. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.
- direct discourse — quotation of a speaker in which the speaker's exact words are repeated.
- discourteousness — The state or quality of being discourteous.
- disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- distributionally — In a distributional manner.
- district council — the local ruling body of an urban or rural district.
- divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
- do-it-yourselfer — an advocate or enthusiast of do-it-yourself
- double solitaire — a game of solitaire for two persons, each player usually having a pack and layout but pooling foundations with the opponent.
- double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.