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16-letter words containing u, n, c, a

  • circumstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
  • circumstantiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumstantiate.
  • class background — a person's background with reference to social class
  • clausal language — (language)   (CL) A programming language and proof system developed by Paul Voda and a colleague since 1997, written in Trilogy II.
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • cleansing tissue — a small piece of absorbent paper, used especially for removing cleansing cream and cosmetics and also serving as a disposable handkerchief.
  • cleanup campaign — an organized programme to clean up a place, typically organized at a local or regional level
  • clearance volume — The clearance volume is the volume remaining above the piston of an engine when it reaches top dead center.
  • cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • cochineal cactus — a treelike cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera, of Mexico and Central America, that is a principal source of food of the cochineal insect.
  • column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • command guidance — a method of controlling a missile during flight by transmitting information to it
  • command language — the language used to access a computer system
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commensurateness — The state or quality of being commensurate.
  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
  • communion sunday — any Sunday on which communion is administered.
  • communitarianism — A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities.
  • community action — campaigns undertaken by the people living in a particular place
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • commutation-test — the act of substituting one thing for another; substitution; exchange.
  • companion volume — a book that complements another on a related subject, usually by the same author
  • company of jesus — former name of the Society of Jesus.
  • concurrent clean — (language)   An alternative name for Clean 1.0.
  • configurationism — Gestalt psychology
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
  • consanguineously — In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.
  • consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
  • consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
  • consequentialist — the theory that human actions derive their moral worth solely from their outcomes or consequences.
  • consequentiality — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
  • conspicuity tape — a highly reflective strip or tape used on a vehicle, clothing, etc., to make it more visible in low light.
  • constitutionally — in composition or physique
  • constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
  • constructionally — In a constructional manner.
  • consubstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of consubstantiate.
  • consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • contagious magic — magic that attempts to affect a person through something once connected with him or her, as a shirt once worn by the person or a footprint left in the sand; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that things once in contact are in some way permanently so, however separated physically they may subsequently become.
  • content curation — the selection, organization, and presentation of (usually) online material, either manually or by a computer program
  • continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
  • contour feathers — feathers that form the surface plumage of a bird and determine the outer contour, including the wing and tail feathers
  • contour interval — the difference in altitude represented by the space between two contour lines on a map
  • control language — (language)   (CL) The batch language for IBM RPG/38, used in conjunction with RPG III. See also OCL.
  • contumaciousness — The property of being contumacious.
  • 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.
  • coram non judice — before a court lacking the authority to hear and decide the case in question.
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