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16-letter words containing and

  • carrot and stick — If an organization has a carrot and stick approach or policy, they offer people things in order to persuade them to do something and punish them if they refuse to do it.
  • catch red-handed — If someone is caught red-handed, they are caught while they are in the act of doing something wrong.
  • cause and effect — You use cause and effect to talk about the way in which one thing is caused by another.
  • cause-and-effect — noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
  • chain of command — the various individual officers, ranks etc that constitute a hierarchy each level receiving orders from the one above it and passing on the orders to the one below
  • channel islander — a person who comes from one of the Channel Islands
  • charles chandler — Charles Frederick, 1836–1925, U.S. scientist, educator, and public-health expert.
  • chichagof island — an island of Alaska, in the Alexander Archipelago. Area: 5439 sq km (2100 sq miles)
  • christmas island — an island in the Indian Ocean, south of Java: administered by Singapore (1900–58), now by Australia; phosphate mining. Pop: 1496 (2013 est). Area: 135 sq km (52 sq miles)
  • clermont-ferrand — a city in S central France: capital of Puy-de-Dôme department; industrial centre. Pop: 140 957 (2011)
  • cloak-and-dagger — A cloak-and-dagger activity is one which involves mystery and secrecy.
  • cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
  • close by/at hand — Something that is close by or close at hand is near to you.
  • come and get it! — the meal is ready!
  • 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
  • concession stand — a stall where food, drinks, or other items are sold at a theatre or other venue
  • control commands — keyed instructions conveyed to a computer by using the control key in conjunction with the standard keys
  • cops and robbers — a children's game in which a group of players imitate the behavior of police and of thieves, as in pursuing and capturing.
  • cops-and-robbers — A cops-and-robbers film, television programme, or book is one whose story involves the police trying to catch criminals.
  • coromandel coast — the SE coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, extending from Point Calimere to the mouth of the Krishna River
  • crown and anchor — a game played with dice marked with crowns and anchors
  • cumberland sauce — a cold sauce made from orange and lemon juice, port, and redcurrant jelly, served with ham, game, or other meat
  • curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
  • currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
  • cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
  • dagwood sandwich — a thick sandwich filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, dressings, and condiments.
  • dandruff shampoo — a preparation of soap or detergent used to wash the hair and which helps to control and reduce dandruff
  • display standard — (hardware, standard)   IBM and others have introduced a bewildering plethora of graphics and text display standards for IBM PCs. The standards are mostly implemented by plugging in a video display board (or "graphics adaptor") and connecting the appropriate monitor to it. Each new standard subsumes its predecessors. For example, an EGA board can also do CGA and MDA. With the PS/2, IBM introduced the VGA standard and built it into the main system board motherboard. VGA is also available as a plug-in board for PCs from third-party vendors. Also with the PS/2, IBM introduced the 8514 high-resolution graphics standard. An 8514 adaptor board plugs into the PS/2, providing a dual-monitor capability. Graphics software had to support the major IBM graphics standards and many non-IBM, proprietary standards for displays. Either software vendors provided display drivers or display vendors provided drivers for the software package. In either case, switching software or switching display systems was fraught with compatibility problems. More colours are available from third-party vendors for some display types. See also MDA, CGA, EGA, PGA, Hercules, MCGA, VGA, SVGA, 8514, VESA.
  • draw and quarter — to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
  • ducks and drakes — Also, duck and drake. a pastime in which flat stones or shells are thrown across water so as to skip over the surface several times before sinking.
  • ellesmere island — a Canadian island in the Arctic Ocean: part of Nunavut; mountainous, with many glaciers. Area: 212 688 sq km (82 119 sq miles)
  • falkland islands — disputed islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • fandango on core — (jargon, programming)   (Unix/C, from the Mexican dance) In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have "done a fandango on core". On low-end personal machines without an MMU, this can corrupt the operating system itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba, cha-cha, or watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core.
  • farquhar islands — an island group in the Indian Ocean: administratively part of the Seychelles
  • ferdinand marcos — Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
  • force one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • fore and aft rig — a sail set in a line from one end the other of a vessel rather than in a square
  • fore-and-aft rig — a rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft.
  • franz josef land — an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, E of Spitzbergen and N of Novaya Zemlya: belongs to the Russian Federation.
  • friendly islands — Tonga
  • front and center — If a topic or question is front and center, a lot of attention is being paid to it or a lot of people are talking about it.
  • golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
  • golden handshake — a special incentive, as generous severance pay, given to an older employee as an inducement to elect early retirement.
  • governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
  • grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
  • great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
  • great-grandniece — a granddaughter of one's nephew or niece.
  • great-granduncle — an uncle of one's grandfather or grandmother.
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