16-letter words containing es
- counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
- court of session — the supreme civil court in Scotland
- crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
- crease-resistant — (of a fabric, garment, etc) designed to remain uncreased when subjected to wear or use
- creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
- creme de bananes — a liqueur flavored with bananas.
- crested screamer — a goose-like aquatic bird, Chauna torquata, of the family Anhimidae of tropical and subtropical South America, having a crest on the back of its head: order Anseriformes (ducks, geese, etc)
- cross-resistance — immunologic resistance to the pathogenic effects of a microorganism because of previous exposure to another species or type having cross-reactive antigens.
- cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
- cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- current expenses — noncapital and usually recurrent expenditures necessary for the operation of a business
- currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
- cut one's losses — to give up spending time, money, or energy on an unprofitable or unsuccessful activity
- darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
- data compression — the act of compressing.
- de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
- debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
- deferred success — (in Britain) a euphemism suggested as an alternative to ‘failure’, in order not to stigmatize pupils who have not achieved a pass in a particular subject
- degrees of frost — When someone says that there are a particular number of degrees of frost they mean that the temperature is that number of degrees below freezing point.
- deliberativeness — The state or quality of being deliberative.
- demonstrableness — The quality of being demonstrable.
- departmentalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of departmentalize.
- depression glass — cheap glassware mass-produced during the Depression of the 1930s, usually molded in patterns in pale colors, and collectible since the early 1970s
- depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
- descending colon — the last portion of the colon, beginning at the upper left abdomen in the region of the spleen and continuing downward along the left posterior wall to the sigmoid flexure.
- descent function — If a recursive function is of the form f x = ... f (d x) ... then d is known as the descent function.
- designer stubble — (on a man) facial hair that is carefully trimmed to give what is thought to be an attractive rugged slightly unshaven look
- desktop database — Macintosh file system
- destabilizations — Plural form of destabilization.
- destigmatization — The process or act of destigmatizing.
- destroyer escort — a lightly armed warship smaller than a destroyer, designed to escort fleets or convoys
- destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
- destructibleness — The quality of being destructible.
- determinableness — Capability of being determined; determinability.
- diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
- diesel-hydraulic — a locomotive driven by a diesel engine through hydraulic transmission and torque converters
- digestive juices — fluids secreted in the stomach or intestines that assist in the digestion of food
- digestive system — the system by which ingested food is acted upon by physical and chemical means to provide the body with absorbable nutrients and to excrete waste products; in mammals the system includes the alimentary canal extending from the mouth to the anus, and the hormones and enzymes assisting in digestion.
- digital research — (company) The company which developed CP/M, the operating system used on many of the first generation 8-bit microprocessor-based personal computers. Digital Research also produced DR-DOS. Address: Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
- disagreeableness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being disagreeable.
- disconcertedness — The characteristic of being disconcerted.
- disconnectedness — The characteristic of being disconnected.
- disconsolateness — (uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
- discontentedness — The state or quality of being discontented.
- discourteousness — The state or quality of being discourteous.
- disestablishment — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- dishonorableness — The property of being dishonorable.
- disingenuousness — The state or quality of being disingenuous.
- disputatiousness — The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness.