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16-letter words containing l, d, c, o

  • collagen disease — any of a group of diseases, as systemic lupus erythematosus, polyarteritis, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis, involving inflammation or degeneration of connective tissue and accompanied by deposition of fibrinous material.
  • collared peccary — a piglike artiodactyl mammal, Tayassu tajacu, of forests of southern North America, Central and South America: family Tayassuidae
  • college graduate — a student who has recently graduated from college
  • colorado plateau — a plateau in the SW United States, in N Arizona, NW New Mexico, S Utah, and SW Colorado: location of the Grand Canyon.
  • colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
  • command language — the language used to access a computer system
  • commodity dollar — the unit of a proposed system of currency, that would have a fluctuating gold value determined at regular intervals on the basis of an official index of the prices of key commodities
  • common knowledge — something widely or generally known
  • commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
  • complex pendulum — a complex structure mounted so that it can swing freely under the influence of gravity
  • conditional sale — a sale in which the title of a property remains with the seller until some condition is met, as the payment of the full purchase price.
  • confidence level — a measure of the reliability of a result. A confidence level of 95 per cent or 0.95 means that there is a probability of at least 95 per cent that the result is reliable
  • confidentialness — The state or quality of being confidential.
  • confused elderly — old and no longer having mental abilities sufficient for independent living
  • conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
  • consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
  • constant dollars — a dollar valued according to its purchasing power in an arbitrarily set year and then adjusted for price changes in other years so that real purchasing power can be compared by giving prices as they would presumably be in the base year.
  • constant folding — (compiler)   A compiler optimisation technique where constant subexpressions are evaluated at compile time. This is usually only applied to built-in numerical and boolean operators whereas partial evaluation is more general in that expressions involving user-defined functions may also be evaluated at compile time.
  • consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • continental code — Morse1
  • control commands — keyed instructions conveyed to a computer by using the control key in conjunction with the standard keys
  • conventionalised — to make conventional.
  • conventionalized — to make conventional.
  • convertible bond — a bond that can be exchanged for a fixed number of shares of the common stock of the issuing company at the holder's option.
  • cook-chill foods — foods which are chilled rapidly and reheated as required
  • coromandel coast — the SE coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, extending from Point Calimere to the mouth of the Krishna River
  • corporal's guard — a squad commanded by a corporal
  • corporate ladder — the hierarchy of posts with a particular corporation or corporations in general
  • correction fluid — a fluid, usually white, that can be painted over a mistake in writing or typing so that the correct form can be written or typed on top
  • cross-validation — a process by which a method that works for one sample of a population is checked for validity by applying the method to another sample from the same population.
  • crossword puzzle — a puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal pattern
  • crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
  • 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
  • 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
  • curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
  • cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • de-anglicization — (in Ireland) the elimination of English influence, language, customs, etc
  • 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
  • dealcoholization — to remove some or all of the alcohol from (a drink).
  • decapitalization — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
  • decentralization — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • decimal fraction — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • declare war (on) — to make a formal declaration of being at war (with)
  • declassification — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
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