17-letter words containing a, c, l, e, n
- chronological age — the number of years a person has lived, especially when used as a standard against which to measure behavior, intelligence, etc.
- chukchi peninsula — a peninsula in the extreme NE of Russia, in NE Siberia: mainly tundra
- church of england — The Church of England is the main church in England. It has the Queen as its head and it does not recognize the authority of the Pope.
- cinisello balsamo — a city in N Italy, near Milan.
- cinnamic aldehyde — a yellowish oil, C 9 H 8 O, having a cinnamonlike odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of flavorings and perfumes.
- circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
- circular triangle — a triangle in which each side is the arc of a circle
- ciudad del carmen — a city in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche.
- civil libertarian — a person who actively supports or works for the protection or expansion of civil liberties.
- civil partnership — A civil partnership is a legal relationship between two people of the same sex that is similar to marriage.
- clairaut equation — a differential equation of the form y = xy prime; + f (y prime;).
- classical chinese — a written form of Chinese used from about the 5th century b.c. to 220 a.d.
- clear box testing — white box testing
- cleveland heights — city in NE Ohio: suburb of Cleveland: pop. 50,000
- clifden nonpareil — a handsome nocturnal moth, Catocala fraxini, that is brown with bluish patches on the hindwings: related to the red underwing
- climbing accident — an accident occurring during climbing
- clinical efficacy — Clinical efficacy is a measure of how well a treatment succeeds in achieving its aim.
- clipperton island — an uninhabited atoll in the E Pacific SW of Mexico, under French administration. Area: 6 sq km (2.3 sq miles)
- close corporation — a small private limited company
- close parenthesis — right parenthesis
- close punctuation — punctuation in which many commas, full stops, etc, are used
- closed-captioning — (of a television program, film, or video) distributed with synchronized transcription of speech and written descriptions of other relevant audio elements, as for the hearing-impaired, that are visible only when the option to display them is selected. Abbreviation: CC.
- closing-down sale — a sale held to clear stock from a shop that is ceasing to operate
- clumber (spaniel) — a short-legged spaniel with a heavy body and a thick coat of straight, white hair marked with yellow or orange
- coarse-grain salt — salt with a much larger grain size than table salt
- codlins-and-cream — an onagraceous plant, Epilobium hirsutum, native to Europe and Asia and introduced into North America, having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves
- coin of the realm — legal tender.
- collaborativeness — Quality of being collaborative.
- collateralization — The act or process of collateralizing.
- collection agency — A collection agency is an organization that obtains payments from people who owe money to others.
- colleterial gland — a paired accessory reproductive gland, present in most female insects, secreting a sticky substance that forms either the egg cases or the cement that binds the eggs to a surface
- color-coordinated — with all parts or elements related, blended, or matched to a particular color scheme.
- colour separation — the division of a coloured original into cyan, magenta, yellow, and black so that plates may be made for print reproduction. Separation may be achieved by electronic scanning or by photographic techniques using filters to isolate each colour
- combe-capelle man — a skeleton of the early Upper Paleolithic Perigordian culture in France.
- commercial agency — a concern that investigates for the benefit of its subscribers the financial standing, reputation, and credit rating of individuals, firms, corporations, or others.
- commercialisation — Alternative spelling of commercialization.
- commercialization — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- committal hearing — (in British law) a preliminary inquiry by a magistrate to decide if there is enough evidence for a case to go to trial
- communal marriage — group marriage.
- commuter airplane — air taxi.
- companionableness — The state or quality of being companionable.
- compartmentalised — Simple past tense and past participle of compartmentalise.
- compartmentalized — separated into several discrete areas
- compartmentalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compartmentalize.
- complement clause — a subordinate clause that functions as the subject, direct object, or prepositional object of a verb, as that you like it in I'm surprised that you like it.
- complementariness — forming a complement; completing.
- complementarities — Plural form of complementarity.
- complementary dna — a form of DNA artificially synthesized from a messenger RNA template and used in genetic engineering to produce gene clones
- complex conjugate — the complex number whose imaginary part is the negative of that of a given complex number, the real parts of both numbers being equal
- complex-conjugate — one of a group of conjugate words.