16-letter words containing ni
- community action — campaigns undertaken by the people living in a particular place
- community center — A community center is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
- community centre — A community centre is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
- community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
- community church — an independent or denominational church in a particular community.
- community leader — a leading figure in a community
- community school — a school offering some nonacademic activities related to life in a particular community and often serving as a community centre
- community spirit — willingness and desire to participate in activities that promote a community
- community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
- companion animal — an animal kept as a pet
- companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
- companion volume — a book that complements another on a related subject, usually by the same author
- companionability — The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
- condominium unit — an apartment in a condominium building
- confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
- confederationist — A supporter of confederation.
- configurationism — Gestalt psychology
- confrontationist — a person who confronts opposition, especially aggressively.
- conic projection — a map projection on which the earth is shown as projected onto a cone with its apex over one of the poles and with parallels of latitude radiating from this apex
- conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
- conservationists — Plural form of conservationist.
- constitutionists — Plural form of constitutionist.
- constructionists — Plural form of constructionist.
- contrabassoonist — Someone who plays the contrabassoon.
- contractarianism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
- convenience food — Convenience food is frozen, dried, or canned food that can be heated and prepared very quickly and easily.
- coping mechanism — something a person does to deal with a difficult situation
- cordon sanitaire — a guarded line serving to cut off an infected area
- creeping juniper — a prostrate central North American shrub, Juniperus horizontalis, of the cypress family, of central North America, having bluish-green or gray-blue leaves and blue fruit, growing well in sandy, rocky soil.
- cut-up technique — a technique of writing involving cutting up lines or pages of prose and rearranging these fragments, popularized by the novelist William Burroughs (1914–97)
- dabrowa gornicza — an industrial city in S Poland.
- darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
- day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
- de-stalinization — the elimination of the influence of Stalin
- dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
- definite article — The word 'the' is sometimes called the definite article.
- delphi technique — a forecasting or decision-making technique that makes use of written questionnaires to eliminate the influence of personal relationships and the domination of committees by strong personalities
- dental hygienist — a dentist's assistant skilled in dental hygiene
- depleted uranium — Depleted uranium is a type of uranium that is used in some bombs.
- 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
- dinitrogen oxide — a colourless nonflammable slightly soluble gas with a sweet smell: used as an anaesthetic in dentistry and surgery. Formula: N 2O
- disproportioning — Present participle of disproportion.
- dolce far niente — pleasing inactivity.
- dominical letter — any one of the letters from A to G used in church calendars to mark the Sundays throughout any particular year, serving primarily to aid in determining the date of Easter.
- double indemnity — a clause in a life-insurance or accident-insurance policy providing for payment of twice the face value of the policy in the event of accidental death.
- double pneumonia — pneumonia affecting both lungs.
- earnings-related — An earnings-related payment or benefit provides higher or lower payments according to the amount a person was earning while working.
- 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
- ecological niche — niche (def 3).
- electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges