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16-letter words containing c, o, n, v, e, t

  • creative tension — a situation where disagreement or discord ultimately gives rise to better ideas or outcomes
  • crime prevention — official and police policies to prevent crime
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • device control 1 — control-Q
  • device control 2 — (character)   (DC2) The mnemonic for ASCII character 18, one of the four Device Control characters.
  • device control 3 — control-S
  • device control 4 — (character)   (DC4) The mnemonic for ASCII character 20, one of the four Device Control characters.
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
  • enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
  • evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
  • executive lounge — a room in an airport in which people who are travelling first class can wait for their flight in comfort
  • forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
  • government stock — stock issued by the UK or another national government
  • historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
  • inconceivability — (uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
  • incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
  • incontrovertible — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
  • incontrovertibly — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
  • inconvertibility — The condition of being inconvertible.
  • interconvertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
  • intervocalically — (phonology) Between vowels.
  • inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
  • inverse function — the function that replaces another function when the dependent and independent variables of the first function are interchanged for an appropriate set of values of the dependent variable. In y = sin x and x = arc sin y, the inverse function of sine is arc sine.
  • junior executive — a trainee position in a business or organization
  • kiloelectronvolt — (physics) A unit of energy equal to a thousand electron volts.
  • lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
  • macroenvironment — (biology) The large-scale and long-term environment and conditions that affect an organism.
  • magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
  • mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
  • melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • microenvironment — the environment of a small area or of a particular organism; microhabitat.
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
  • native companion — brolga.
  • neo-conservatism — (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies
  • neoconservatives — Plural form of neoconservative.
  • nevado de toluca — a volcano in central Mexico, in Mexico state near Toluca: crater partly filled by a lake. Height: 4577 m (15 017 ft)
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
  • non-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • non-constructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • non-contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • non-conventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
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