16-letter words containing cen
- post-pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
- preconcentration — the act of concentrating; the state of being concentrated.
- proxima centauri — the nearest star to the sun at a distance of 4.3 light-years, part of the Alpha Centauri triple-star system located in the constellation Centaurus.
- quadricentennial — of, relating to, or marking the completion of a period of four hundred years.
- quatercentennial — pertaining to or marking a period of 400 years.
- reception centre — A reception centre is a place where people who have no homes or are being looked after by the government can live until somewhere else is found for them to live.
- rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- secondary accent — a stress accent weaker than primary accent but stronger than lack of stress.
- self-complacency — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
- sesquicentennial — pertaining to or marking the completion of a period of 150 years.
- sonoluminescence — the emission of a flash of light accompanying the bursting of a bubble in a liquid when sound waves are passed through the liquid.
- spreading center — a linear zone in the sea floor along which magma rises and from which adjacent crustal plates are moving apart.
- teachers' centre — (in Britain) a place that provides a central store of educational aids, such as films and display material, and also in-service training, and is available for use to all the teachers within a particular area
- the anthropocene — a proposed term for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards), during which humanity has begun to have a significant impact on the environment
- to set the scene — If someone sets the scene or sets the stage for an event to take place, they make preparations so that it can take place.
- transcendentally — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
- turkish crescent — crescent (def 6).
- two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
- vincent's angina — a disease characterized by ulceration of the mucosa of the tonsils, pharynx, and mouth, by the presence of abundant bacilli and spirochetes, and by the development of a membrane.