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14-letter words containing nt

  • chase pointers — (programming)   To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • chemical plant — a factory that produces or processes chemicals
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chemosynthesis — the formation of organic material by certain bacteria using energy derived from simple chemical reactions
  • chemosynthetic — That utilizes chemosynthesis.
  • chenille plant — an East Indian plant, Acalypha hispida, of the spurge family, having long, drooping, reddish-purple spikes of flowers.
  • cheque account — an account at a bank or a building society upon which cheques can be drawn
  • christocentric — having as the theological focal point the teachings and practices of Jesus Christ.
  • chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
  • church integer — (theory)   A representation of integers as functions invented by Alonzo Church, inventor of lambda-calculus. The integer N is represented as a higher-order function which applies a given function N times to a given expression. In the pure lambda-calculus there are no constants but numbers can be represented by Church integers. A Haskell function to return a given Church integer could be written: unchurch c = c (+1) 0 See also von Neumann integer.
  • circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
  • circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • clairsentience — The ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of feeling.
  • class interval — one of the intervals into which the range of a variable of a distribution is divided, esp one of the divisions of the base line of a bar chart or histogram
  • cleft sentence — a sentence in which a simpler sentence is paraphrased by being divided into two parts, each with its own verb, in order to emphasize certain information, especially a sentence beginning with expletive it and a form of be followed by the information being emphasized, as It was a mushroom that Alice ate instead of Alice ate a mushroom.
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • co-respondents — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
  • coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
  • color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
  • colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
  • commandantship — the office of a commandant
  • commentary box — the place where the commentators on a sporting event sit
  • commentatorial — relating to commentators or the creation of commentaries
  • commitment fee — a charge made by a bank, in addition to interest, to make a loan available to a potential borrower
  • complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
  • complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
  • concentratedly — with intense mental application
  • concentrations — Plural form of concentration.
  • concentrically — having a common center, as circles or spheres.
  • concupiscently — In a concupiscent manner; with concupiscence.
  • concurrent clu — (language)   A programming language extending CLU for concurrent processes, developed by by Hamilton in 1984.
  • confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
  • confrontations — Plural form of confrontation.
  • consent decree — a negotiated agreement of the parties to a lawsuit which resolves the disputed issues and is sanctioned by the court; often, specif., such an agreement by which the defendant agrees to cease an activity or practice asserted by the government to be illegal
  • consequentness — The state or quality of being consequent.
  • constantine ii — official title Constantine XIII. born 1940, king of Greece (1964–73): went into exile when the army seized power in 1967. He was officially deposed in 1973 and Greece became a republic
  • constantine xi — 1404–53, last Byzantine emperor (1448–53): killed when Constantinople was captured by the Turks
  • constantinople — Istanbul
  • constraintlisp — (language)   An object-oriented constraint language based on CSP. An extension of Common Lisp and CLOS.
  • consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
  • consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
  • consultantship — the office or function of a consultant
  • contact binary — a binary system in which the envelopes of gas surrounding each star are in contact.
  • contact cement — an adhesive that sets when the surfaces it is applied to are brought in contact with each other
  • contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
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