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16-letter words containing u, n, m

  • conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
  • 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 durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • coram non judice — before a court lacking the authority to hear and decide the case in question.
  • 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.
  • couvade syndrome — a psychosomatic condition in which the spouse or partner of a pregnant woman experiences symptoms of childbirth or pregnancy
  • 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 assault — a punishable offence of attempting to harm another person through physical contact
  • 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
  • cuban royal palm — a feather palm, Roystonea regia, of tropical America, having a trunk that is swollen in the middle, drooping leaves from 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 meters) long, and small, round fruit.
  • cumberland sauce — a cold sauce made from orange and lemon juice, port, and redcurrant jelly, served with ham, game, or other meat
  • curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
  • customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
  • cutting compound — a mixture, such as oil, water, and soap, used for cooling drills and other cutting tools
  • dandruff shampoo — a preparation of soap or detergent used to wash the hair and which helps to control and reduce dandruff
  • decimal currency — a system of currency in which the monetary units are parts or powers of ten
  • 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.
  • diazoamino group — the divalent group –N=NNH–.
  • dimension lumber — building lumber cut to standard or specified sizes.
  • 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.
  • direction number — the component of a vector along a given line; any number proportional to the direction cosines of a given line.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
  • distinguishments — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • dominus vobiscum — the Lord be with you.
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