16-letter words containing ent
- carpenter gothic — (sometimes initial capital letters) a style of Victorian Gothic architecture adapted to the resources of contemporary woodworking tools and machinery.
- centennial state — Colorado (used as a nickname).
- central american — of or relating to Central America or its inhabitants
- central cylinder — stele (def 4).
- central european — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Europe
- central tendency — the tendency of the values of a random variable to cluster around the mean, median, and mode
- centrally heated — A centrally heated building or room has central heating.
- centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
- century meltdown — Year 2000
- chemical element — chemistry: substance
- chemiluminescent — Of, pertaining to, or employing chemiluminescence.
- chemoluminescent — (chemistry) Exhibiting chemoluminescence.
- chian turpentine — turpentine (def 2).
- childcare center — a place or business offering childcare for working parents
- chinese crescent — crescent (def 6).
- closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
- coherent control — the use of nonrandom radiation, especially a laser beam, to change an atomic, electronic, or molecular system's behavior.
- commission agent — a person who sells goods and services for a fee
- community center — A community center is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
- community centre — A community centre is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
- compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
- compartmentalize — To compartmentalize something means to divide it into separate sections.
- compartmentation — subdivision of a hull into spaces enclosed by watertight bulkheads and sometimes by watertight decks.
- complex sentence — a sentence containing at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
- complexing agent — an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
- compliments slip — a slip of paper sent with a parcel that identifies the sender and expresses compliments
- concurrent clean — (language) An alternative name for Clean 1.0.
- confidentialness — The state or quality of being confidential.
- conscientization — (sociology, education) A social concept, grounded in Marxist critical theory, that focuses on achieving an in-depth understanding of the world, allowing for the perception and exposure of perceived social and political contradictions.
- consent judgment — a judgment settled and agreed to by the parties to the action. Compare consent decree (def 2).
- consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
- consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
- consequentialist — the theory that human actions derive their moral worth solely from their outcomes or consequences.
- consequentiality — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
- consignment note — a document containing particulars of goods for shipment and which provides proof that the consignment has been received by the carrier for delivery
- content analysis — analysis to determine the meaning, purpose, or effect of any type of communication, as literature, newspapers, or broadcasts, by studying and evaluating the details, innuendoes, and implications of the content, recurrent themes, etc.
- content curation — the selection, organization, and presentation of (usually) online material, either manually or by a computer program
- content provider — A content provider is a company that supplies material such as text, music, or images for use on websites.
- continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
- continental code — Morse1
- continental rise — the gently sloping transition between the continental slope and the deep ocean floor, usually characterized by coalescence of submarine alluvial fans.
- conventionalised — to make conventional.
- conventionalists — Plural form of conventionalist.
- conventionalized — to make conventional.
- conventionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conventionalize.
- coreferentiality — (of two words or phrases) having reference to the same person or thing.
- cost-efficiently — cost-effective.
- council of trent — the council of the Roman Catholic Church that met between 1545 and 1563 at Trent in S Tyrol. Reacting against the Protestants, it reaffirmed traditional Catholic beliefs and formulated the ideals of the Counter-Reformation
- counter-argument — A counter-argument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
- counterarguments — Plural form of counterargument.