16-letter words containing a, c, e, t, y
- corporate lawyer — a lawyer who works for a corporation
- cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
- counter-strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- counterfactually — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- covariant theory — the principle that physical laws have the same form and interrelations in any system of coordinates in which they are expressed.
- cracker capacity — The cracker capacity is the amount of a particular product which a refinery can produce.
- cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
- crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
- critical density — the density of matter that would be required to halt the expansion of the universe
- crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
- croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
- cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
- cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
- crystal detector — a demodulator, used esp in microwave circuits and in early radio receivers, consisting of a thin metal wire in point contact with a semiconductor crystal
- crystalline lens — a biconvex transparent elastic structure in the eye situated behind the iris, serving to focus images on the retina
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
- customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
- cyclohexamantane — (chemistry) A certain diamondoid, C26H30.
- cytoarchitecture — (biology) The arrangement of cells in an organism or organ.
- dacryocystectomy — The surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.
- debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
- dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
- delayed reaction — response after an interval
- delaying tactics — techniques used to delay sth
- democratic party — (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840
- deputy secretary — the Deputy Secretary of State or Defense etc
- dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- dictionary flame — [Usenet] An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer argument over definitions to disputes about reality. Compare spelling flame.
- dictionary-maker — a person who compiles a dictionary
- diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
- dihydroxyacetone — (organic compound) The compound CO(CH2OH)2 that has a number of industrial uses.
- dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
- direct democracy — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- do the necessary — to do something that is necessary in a particular situation
- documentary film — factual, informative film
- dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
- dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
- dry-cell battery — a dry battery
- e-carrier system — (communications) A series of digital transmission formats promulgated by the ITU and used outside of North America and Japan. The basic unit of the E-carrier system is the DS0, which has a transmission rate of 64 Kbps, and is commonly used for one voice circuit. The E1 format consists of 32 DS0 channels, for a total capacity of 2.048 Mbps. E2, E3, E4, and E5 circuits carry multiple E1 channels multiplexed, resulting in transmission rates of up to 565.148 Mbps. The E-carrier system is similar to, and compatible with, the T-carrier system used in North America, but has higher capacity since it uses out-of-band signaling in contrast to the in-band signaling or bit-robbing used in the T-system.
- ecclesiastically — of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
- electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
- electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
- enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
- epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
- eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
- ethnocentrically — In an ethnocentric way.