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16-letter words containing v, i, c, n

  • come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
  • companion volume — a book that complements another on a related subject, usually by the same author
  • compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
  • confidence level — a measure of the reliability of a result. A confidence level of 95 per cent or 0.95 means that there is a probability of at least 95 per cent that the result is reliable
  • conservation law — any law stating that some quantity or property remains constant during and after an interaction or process, as conservation of charge or conservation of linear momentum.
  • conservationists — Plural form of conservationist.
  • conservative jew — a Jew who adheres for the most part to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism with the reservation that, taking into account contemporary conditions, certain modifications or rejections are permissible.
  • conservativeness — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • constructiveness — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • content provider — A content provider is a company that supplies material such as text, music, or images for use on websites.
  • continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
  • contour interval — the difference in altitude represented by the space between two contour lines on a map
  • contraindicative — Serving as a contraindication.
  • control variable — Also called control. Statistics. a person, group, event, etc., that is used as a constant and unchanging standard of comparison in scientific experimentation. Compare dependent variable (def 2), independent variable (def 2).
  • controversialism — The attitude or tendency to engage in controversy.
  • controversialist — a person who takes part in controversy or likes to do so
  • controversiality — The quality or state of being controversial.
  • controversialize — (transitive) To make to appear controversial.
  • convenience food — Convenience food is frozen, dried, or canned food that can be heated and prepared very quickly and easily.
  • conventionalised — to make conventional.
  • conventionalists — Plural form of conventionalist.
  • conventionalized — to make conventional.
  • conventionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conventionalize.
  • conversation pit — a usually sunken portion of a room or living area with chairs, sofas, etc., often grouped around a fireplace, where people can gather to talk.
  • conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • conversion ratio — (in a reactor) the number of fissionable atoms produced by each fissionable atom that is destroyed.
  • conversion table — a diagram which shows equivalent amounts in different measuring systems
  • convertible bond — a bond that can be exchanged for a fixed number of shares of the common stock of the issuing company at the holder's option.
  • convertible lens — a lens containing two or more elements that can be used individually or in combination to provide a variety of focal lengths.
  • cooperative bank — a cooperative savings institution, chartered and regulated by a state or the federal government, that receives deposits in exchange for shares of ownership and invests its funds chiefly in loans secured by first mortgages on homes.
  • counter-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
  • counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
  • counterintuitive — (of an idea, proposal, etc) seemingly contrary to common sense
  • counteroffensive — a series of attacks by a defending force against an attacking enemy
  • covariant theory — the principle that physical laws have the same form and interrelations in any system of coordinates in which they are expressed.
  • creative commons — Sometimes, creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons; a creative commons license.
  • creative tension — a situation where disagreement or discord ultimately gives rise to better ideas or outcomes
  • creative writing — Creative writing is writing such as novels, stories, poems, and plays.
  • crime prevention — official and police policies to prevent crime
  • cross-validation — a process by which a method that works for one sample of a population is checked for validity by applying the method to another sample from the same population.
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
  • 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.
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • device control 1 — control-Q
  • device control 2 — (character)   (DC2) The mnemonic for ASCII character 18, one of the four Device Control characters.
  • device control 3 — control-S
  • device control 4 — (character)   (DC4) The mnemonic for ASCII character 20, one of the four Device Control characters.
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