16-letter words containing ne
- contumaciousness — The property of being contumacious.
- contumeliousness — The state or quality of being contumelious.
- convergence zone — a zone where tectonic plates collide, typified by earthquakes, mountain formation, and volcanic activity
- cool one's heels — to wait or be kept waiting
- corned beef hash — a dish consisting of corned beef chopped and mixed together with mashed potatoes and various other ingredients, then fried
- cornelian cherry — a flowering tree of the dogwood family Cornus mas
- cornet à pistons — a three-valved brass instrument of the trumpet family. Written range: about two and a half octaves upwards from E below middle C. It is a transposing instrument in B flat or A
- cornet-a-pistons — cornet (def 1).
- coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
- costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
- creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
- creme de bananes — a liqueur flavored with bananas.
- crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
- cross one's mind — to occur to one briefly or suddenly
- crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
- crystalline lens — a biconvex transparent elastic structure in the eye situated behind the iris, serving to focus images on the retina
- curbstone broker — a broker in the early American stockmarket who did business in the street
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- cut of one's jib — one's appearance or way of dressing
- cut one's losses — to give up spending time, money, or energy on an unprofitable or unsuccessful activity
- cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin
- cyclohexamantane — (chemistry) A certain diamondoid, C26H30.
- 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.
- day of atonement — Yom Kippur
- debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
- 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
- degenerate state — a state of a system characterized by a set of quantum numbers and represented by an eigenfunction. The energy of each state is precise within the limits imposed by the uncertainty principle but may be changed by applying a field of force. States that have the same energy are called degenerate
- deliberativeness — The state or quality of being deliberative.
- delta connection — a connection used in a three-phase electrical system in which three elements in series form a triangle, the supply being input and output at the three junctions
- demineralisation — Alternative spelling of demineralization.
- demineralization — to remove minerals from; deprive of mineral content.
- demoiselle crane — a gray crane, Anthropoides virgo, of northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, having long, white plumes behind each eye.
- demonstrableness — The quality of being demonstrable.
- dependency-prone — tending to become psychologically or physiologically dependent on a drug.
- designer stubble — (on a man) facial hair that is carefully trimmed to give what is thought to be an attractive rugged slightly unshaven look
- destructibleness — The quality of being destructible.
- determinableness — Capability of being determined; determinability.
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- dialysis machine — device: kidney treatment
- dihydroxyacetone — (organic compound) The compound CO(CH2OH)2 that has a number of industrial uses.
- dimethoxymethane — methylal.
- dip one's toe in — to begin doing or try something new or unfamiliar
- direction cosine — the cosine of the angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
- director general — the executive head of an organization or of a major subdivision, as a branch or agency, of government.
- director-general — the executive head of an organization or of a major subdivision, as a branch or agency, of government.
- 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.