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16-letter words containing u, n, m, e, t

  • champagne bucket — A champagne bucket is a container that holds ice cubes or cold water and ice. You can use it to put bottles of champagne in and keep the champagne cool.
  • chemiluminescent — Of, pertaining to, or employing chemiluminescence.
  • chemoluminescent — (chemistry) Exhibiting chemoluminescence.
  • cholera infantum — an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • circumstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
  • circumstantiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumstantiate.
  • clootie dumpling — a boiled suet pudding containing dried fruits
  • closed community — a plant community that does not allow for further colonization, all the available niches being occupied
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commensurateness — The state or quality of being commensurate.
  • community center — A community center is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
  • community centre — A community centre is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
  • 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
  • community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
  • commutation-test — the act of substituting one thing for another; substitution; exchange.
  • complicitousness — (rare, possibly nonstandard) Complicity.
  • composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
  • computer network — network
  • computer science — the study of computers and their application
  • consent judgment — a judgment settled and agreed to by the parties to the action. Compare consent decree (def 2).
  • consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
  • 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.
  • consumption weed — groundsel tree.
  • contemptuousness — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
  • continuous miner — continuous cutter.
  • contumaciousness — The property of being contumacious.
  • contumeliousness — The state or quality of being contumelious.
  • costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
  • counter-argument — A counter-argument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
  • counterarguments — Plural form of counterargument.
  • countermigration — a migration in the opposite direction.
  • countermovements — Plural form of countermovement.
  • counterstatement — a statement made to deny or refute another statement.
  • counterterrorism — Counterterrorism consists of activities that are intended to prevent terrorist acts or to get rid of terrorist groups.
  • cream of coconut — coconut cream (def 1).
  • cream-of-coconut — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
  • 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.
  • cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
  • customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
  • defective number — a positive number that is greater than the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 10, which is greater than the sum of 1, 2, and 5.
  • dehumidification — Dehumidification is the removal of vapor from a gas-vapor mixture.
  • delirium tremens — a severe psychotic condition occurring in some persons with chronic alcoholism, characterized by delirium, tremor, anxiety, and vivid hallucinations
  • demolition squad — a group of demolishers
  • demutualizations — Plural form of demutualization.
  • depleted uranium — Depleted uranium is a type of uranium that is used in some bombs.
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