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17-letter words containing a, c, e, r, t

  • cooperative party — (in Great Britain) a political party supporting the cooperative movement and linked with the Labour Party: founded in 1917
  • cooperative store — a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.
  • coordinate clause — one of two or more clauses in a sentence having the same status and introduced by coordinating conjunctions
  • coordinate system — a system of coordinates that uses numbers to represent a point, line, or the like.
  • copernican system — the theory published in 1543 by Copernicus which stated that the earth and the planets rotated around the sun and which opposed the Ptolemaic system
  • corel corporation — (company)   A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. In January 1989, however they entered the software publishing market with the introduction of CorelDraw. Corel became the second largest maker of personal productivity software in January 1996 when they purchased the WordPerfect family of software from Novell, Inc..
  • corner the market — dominate trade
  • coronary arteries — either of two arteries that originate in the aorta and supply the heart muscle with blood.
  • corporate culture — the distinctive ethos of an organization that influences the level of formality, loyalty, and general behaviour of its employees
  • corporate sponsor — a business that sponsors a particular type of event
  • corporate village — an area close to the workplace where many everyday facilities are provided for a company's workers
  • correlation ratio — the ratio of the variance between arrays of data within a sample to the variance of the whole sample.
  • counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
  • counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
  • counter-migration — a migration in the opposite direction.
  • counter-signature — a signature added by way of countersigning.
  • counteraccusation — An accusation made in reply to another accusation.
  • counterattraction — a rival attraction
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • counterinitiative — An initiative opposing another initiative.
  • counterirritation — (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere.
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • counterpropaganda — propaganda to offset or nullify unfriendly or enemy propaganda.
  • countersignatures — Plural form of countersignature.
  • country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
  • course protractor — a navigational instrument for measuring the bearing of a course as given on a chart, having a disk calibrated in degrees and an arm pivoted about the center of the disk.
  • court of chancery — (in the US) a court of equity
  • court-of-chancery — chancery (def 4a).
  • cover your tracks — If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret.
  • cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • cream of the crop — the best of a group
  • creature comforts — Creature comforts are the things that you need to feel comfortable in a place, for example good food and modern equipment.
  • creature of habit — If you say that someone is a creature of habit, you mean that they usually do the same thing at the same time each day, rather than doing new and different things.
  • credit facilities — a type of loan made by a bank
  • credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
  • crew-neck sweater — a sweater with a crew neck
  • criminal contempt — any seriously disrespectful act committed against the dignity or authority of a court.
  • crisis management — People use crisis management to refer to a management style that concentrates on solving the immediate problems occurring in a business rather than looking for long-term solutions.
  • critical pressure — the pressure of a gas or the saturated vapour pressure of a substance in its critical state
  • cross one's heart — to promise or pledge, esp by making the sign of a cross over one's heart
  • cross-correlation — the correlation between two sequences of random variables in a time series
  • cross-examination — to examine by questions intended to check a previous examination; examine closely or minutely.
  • cruciate ligament — A cruciate ligament is either of a pair of ligaments that cross at the knee.
  • cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cryptocrystalline — (of rocks) composed of crystals that can be distinguished individually only by the use of a polarizing microscope
  • cultural exchange — an exchange of students, artists, athletes, etc., between two countries to promote mutual understanding.
  • culture-fair test — a test, usually for intelligence, that does not put anyone taking it at a disadvantage, esp regarding material or cultural background
  • curie-temperature — the temperature beyond that at which a ferromagnetic substance exhibits paramagnetism.
  • customs brokerage — the work of a customs broker
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