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16-letter words containing c, o, u, l, i

  • counter-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
  • counterculturist — Counterculturalist.
  • counterguerrilla — (of operations, conflicts, etc) conducted against guerrillas
  • creole continuum — a range of language varieties in an area undergoing decreolization showing a continuous gradation from forms more like the underlying creole to those approaching the standard language.
  • cross-curricular — denoting or relating to an approach to a topic that includes contributions from several different disciplines and viewpoints
  • cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
  • curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
  • customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
  • decontextualized — removed from the usual context
  • denuclearization — The act or process of denuclearizing.
  • deoxyribonucleic — (genetics) Of or pertaining to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or its derivatives.
  • deuterocanonical — of or constituting a second or subsequent canon; specif., designating certain Biblical books accepted as canonical in the Roman Catholic Church, but held by Protestants to be apocryphal
  • digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
  • diodorus siculus — late 1st century b.c, Greek historian.
  • diplomatic pouch — a sealed mailbag containing diplomatic correspondence that is sent free of inspection between a foreign office and its diplomatic or consular post abroad or from one such post to another.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • disqualification — an act or instance of disqualifying.
  • distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
  • district council — the local ruling body of an urban or rural district.
  • diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
  • divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • el camino bignum — (humour)   /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
  • electroacoustics — a branch of acoustics that deals with the conversion of sound into electricity and vice versa, as in a microphone or a speaker
  • electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
  • electronic music — music: synthesized
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • equational logic — (logic)   First-order equational logic consists of quantifier-free terms of ordinary first-order logic, with equality as the only predicate symbol. The model theory of this logic was developed into Universal algebra by Birkhoff et al. [Birkhoff, Gratzer, Cohn]. It was later made into a branch of category theory by Lawvere ("algebraic theories").
  • ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
  • european council — an executive body of the European Union, made up of the President of the European Commission and representatives of the member states, including the foreign and other ministers. The Council acts at the request of the Commission
  • exclusion clause — (in a contract) something that serves to limit liabilities
  • executive lounge — a room in an airport in which people who are travelling first class can wait for their flight in comfort
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
  • fluosilicic acid — an unstable acid, H 2 SiF 6 , known only in its colorless, poisonous, fuming aqueous solution or in the form of its salts: used chiefly as a wood preservative, a disinfectant, and as a hardening agent in the manufacture of ceramic ware, cement, and concrete.
  • folk linguistics — speculation and popular views about language.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
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