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16-letter words containing as

  • crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • criminal assault — a punishable offence of attempting to harm another person through physical contact
  • cut to the chase — If someone cuts to the chase, they start talking about or dealing with what is important, instead of less important things.
  • cute as a button — very sweet, adorable
  • cytotrophoblasts — Plural form of cytotrophoblast.
  • database analyst — (job)   A person who uses data modeling to analyse and specify data use within an application area. A database analyst defines both logical views and physical data structures. In a client/server environment, he defines the database part of the back end system.
  • database machine — (hardware)   A computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel. This contrasts with a database server, which is a computer in a local area network that holds a database. The database machine is tightly coupled to the main CPU, whereas the database server is loosely coupled via the network.
  • database manager — a person in charge of designing, maintaining, and controlling a database
  • declassification — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
  • deep in the past — long ago
  • dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
  • 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
  • desktop database — Macintosh file system
  • diastereoisomers — Plural form of diastereoisomer.
  • disembarrassment — Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • east coast fever — a disease of cattle, endemic in east and central Africa, caused by a parasite, Theileria parva, that is carried by ticks
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • east los angeles — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • easter sepulcher — sepulcher (def 2).
  • easter-sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
  • eastern european — relating to, situated in or coming from Eastern Europe
  • eastern kingbird — any of several American tyrant flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus, especially T. tyrannus (eastern kingbird) of North America, known for their pugnacious disposition toward predators.
  • eastern orthodox — of or relating to the Orthodox Church.
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • easy on the eyes — good looking, physically attractive
  • ecclesiastically — of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
  • ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
  • electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
  • enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
  • erlenmeyer flask — conical container used in laboratory
  • erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
  • fantasy baseball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
  • fantasy football — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
  • fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
  • fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
  • fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
  • fashion magazine — periodical about trendy clothing
  • fast of gedaliah — Tzom Gedaliah.
  • father christmas — Santa Claus.
  • fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
  • fishskin disease — ichthyosis
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
  • flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
  • flash in the pan — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
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