16-letter words that end in s
- 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).
- corona australis — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere between Ara and Pavo
- counterarguments — Plural form of counterargument.
- counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
- counterirritants — Plural form of counterirritant.
- countermovements — Plural form of countermovement.
- counternarcotics — Measures or activities designed to prevent the use or distrubution of iillegal narcotic drugs.
- counterproposals — Plural form of counterproposal.
- court of appeals — A Court of Appeals is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
- creative commons — Sometimes, creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons; a creative commons license.
- creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
- creme de bananes — a liqueur flavored with bananas.
- crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
- cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
- cryptozoologists — Plural form of cryptozoologist.
- crystalline lens — a biconvex transparent elastic structure in the eye situated behind the iris, serving to focus images on the retina
- 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
- cygnus tcl tools — (tool) A rebundling of Tcl and Tk into the Cygnus GNU build framework with "configure" by david d 'zoo' zuhn <[email protected]>.
- cytotrophoblasts — Plural form of cytotrophoblast.
- 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
- 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
- de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
- dead sea scrolls — a collection of manuscripts in Hebrew and Aramaic discovered in caves near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956. They are widely held to have been written between about 100 bc and 68 ad and provide important biblical evidence
- dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
- 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
- delaying tactics — techniques used to delay sth
- deliberativeness — The state or quality of being deliberative.
- delirium tremens — a severe psychotic condition occurring in some persons with chronic alcoholism, characterized by delirium, tremor, anxiety, and vivid hallucinations
- demonstrableness — The quality of being demonstrable.
- demutualizations — Plural form of demutualization.
- 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
- destabilizations — Plural form of destabilization.
- 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
- diastereoisomers — Plural form of diastereoisomer.
- digestive juices — fluids secreted in the stomach or intestines that assist in the digestion of food
- diodorus siculus — late 1st century b.c, Greek historian.
- diplomatic corps — the entire body of diplomats accredited to and resident at a court or capital.
- 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.