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16-letter words that end in n

  • charles coughlin — Charles Edward ("Father Coughlin") 1891–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic priest, activist, radio broadcaster, and editor, born in Canada.
  • chase the dragon — to smoke opium or heroin
  • chief technician — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior to a flight sergeant
  • chinese cinnamon — cassia (def 1).
  • chinese pavilion — crescent (def 6).
  • chinese-pavilion — a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends.
  • christian action — an inter-Church movement formed in 1946 to promote Christian ideals in society at large
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • circumambulation — The act of walking around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
  • circumnavigation — to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
  • city of aberdeen — a council area in NE Scotland, established in 1996. Pop: 206 600 (2003 est). Area: 186 sq km (72 sq miles)
  • cleanup campaign — an organized programme to clean up a place, typically organized at a local or regional level
  • co-determination — a system of industrial management in which workers share responsibility for the operation of a company, as through elected representation on a corporate supervisory board
  • coadministration — Joint administration.
  • collectivisation — Alternative spelling of collectivization.
  • collectivization — to organize (a people, industry, economy, etc.) according to the principles of collectivism.
  • color television — tv set showing images in colour
  • combination skin — facial skin that is dry in some areas and greasy in others
  • common-or-garden — You can use common-or-garden to describe something you think is ordinary and not special in any way.
  • community action — campaigns undertaken by the people living in a particular place
  • compartmentation — subdivision of a hull into spaces enclosed by watertight bulkheads and sometimes by watertight decks.
  • complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
  • composite motion — a motion in a deliberative body that combines elements of several related motions
  • concurrent clean — (language)   An alternative name for Clean 1.0.
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • 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
  • conscientization — (sociology, education) A social concept, grounded in Marxist critical theory, that focuses on achieving an in-depth understanding of the world, allowing for the perception and exposure of perceived social and political contradictions.
  • container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
  • containerization — a method of shipping freight in relatively uniform, sealed, movable containers whose contents do not have to be unloaded at each point of transfer. Compare break-bulk (def 1).
  • content curation — the selection, organization, and presentation of (usually) online material, either manually or by a computer program
  • contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
  • contraindication — Contraindications are specific medical reasons for not using a particular treatment for a medical condition in the usual way.
  • copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
  • core description — A core description is a summary of the information about a rock sample, found by core analysis.
  • coronary cushion — a thick band of vascular tissue in the coronet of horses and other hoofed animals that secretes the horny wall of the hoof.
  • counter-petition — a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit: a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.
  • counter-reaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • counterintuition — intuition that is counter to common-sense expectation.
  • countermigration — a migration in the opposite direction.
  • course of action — a way of proceeding
  • court of session — the supreme civil court in Scotland
  • cracked fraction — A cracked fraction is a petroleum fraction (= a portion separated according to a physical property) that has been broken down from a fraction with larger molecules.
  • creative tension — a situation where disagreement or discord ultimately gives rise to better ideas or outcomes
  • crime of passion — a crime, often a murder, committed from passion, esp sexual passion
  • crime prevention — official and police policies to prevent crime
  • critical section — A non-re-entrant piece of code that can only be executed by one process at a time. It will usually terminate in bounded time and a process will only have to wait a bounded time to enter it. Some synchronisation mechanism is required at the entry and exit of the critical section to ensure exclusive use.
  • cross protection — the protection against a viral infection given to a plant by its prior inoculation with a related but milder virus
  • 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.
  • cry for the moon — to desire the unattainable
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
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