16-letter words containing ac
- column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
- commonplace book — a notebook in which quotations, poems, remarks, etc, that catch the owner's attention are entered
- community action — campaigns undertaken by the people living in a particular place
- complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
- contact magazine — a magazine in which to place adverts to make contacts, esp sexual ones
- contact printing — the process of making contact prints.
- contract killing — a murder carried out in fulfilment of a contract
- contractarianism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
- contumaciousness — The property of being contumacious.
- counter-reaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- counterattacking — Present participle of counterattack.
- counterfactually — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- course of action — a way of proceeding
- cracked fraction — A cracked fraction is a petroleum fraction (= a portion separated according to a physical property) that has been broken down from a fraction with larger molecules.
- cracked up to be — alleged or believed to be
- cracker capacity — The cracker capacity is the amount of a particular product which a refinery can produce.
- croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
- dacryocystectomy — The surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.
- dark-side hacker — (jargon, legal) A criminal or malicious hacker; a cracker. From George Lucas's Darth Vader, "seduced by the dark side of the Force". The implication that hackers form a sort of elite of technological Jedi Knights is intended. Opposite: samurai.
- data abstraction — (data) Any representation of data in which the implementation details are hidden (abstracted). Abstract data types and objects are the two primary forms of data abstraction.
- data acquisition — data logging
- database machine — (hardware) A computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel. This contrasts with a database server, which is a computer in a local area network that holds a database. The database machine is tightly coupled to the main CPU, whereas the database server is loosely coupled via the network.
- decanedioic acid — a white crystalline carboxylic acid obtained by heating castor oil with sodium hydroxide, used in the manufacture of polyester resins and rubbers and plasticizers. Formula: HOOC(CH2)8COOH
- decimal fraction — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
- delayed reaction — response after an interval
- delaying tactics — techniques used to delay sth
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- diacritical mark — any of various marks, as a macron or cedilla, added to a letter or symbol to indicate its pronunciation or to distinguish it in some way
- dialysis machine — device: kidney treatment
- diamondback moth — a small moth Plutella xylostella that has diamond-shaped markings on the underside of its front wings that are visible when the wings are folded
- dihydroxyacetone — (organic compound) The compound CO(CH2OH)2 that has a number of industrial uses.
- direct democracy — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- disaccreditation — to take away the accreditation or authorization of: to disaccredit a diplomat.
- disappearing act — magic trick
- displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
- displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
- dissatisfactions — Plural form of dissatisfaction.
- dollar diplomacy — a government policy of promoting the business interests of its citizens in other countries.
- dredging machine — dredge1 (def 1).
- drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- electric furnace — any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
- electroacoustics — a branch of acoustics that deals with the conversion of sound into electricity and vice versa, as in a microphone or a speaker
- elegiac quatrain — a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
- encephalomalacia — (medicine) A localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation.
- evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
- extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
- extracorporeally — Outside the body.
- extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
- face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
- facial neuralgia — paroxysmal darting pain and muscular twitching in the face, evoked by rubbing certain points of the face.