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17-letter words containing a, c, o, u, t

  • balance of nature — the stable state in which natural communities of animals and plants exist, maintained by adaptation, competition, and other interactions between members of the communit ies and their nonliving environment
  • beat to the punch — to be quicker than (another) in doing something, as in striking a blow
  • biopharmaceutical — of or relating to drugs produced using biotechnology
  • blackout curtains — thick, lined curtains designed to shut out all daylight and keep a room in complete darkness
  • blue dog democrat — a fiscally conservative member of the Democratic Party
  • bluegrass country — region in central Ky. where there is much bluegrass
  • bouncebackability — the ability to recover after a setback, esp in sport
  • british columbian — of or relating to British Columbia or its inhabitants
  • brokerage account — A brokerage account is an account with a broker where an investor can buy and sell and hold securities.
  • budgetary control — a system of managing a business by applying a financial value to each forecast activity. Actual performance is subsequently compared with the estimates
  • buncher resonator — See under Klystron.
  • bureau of customs — former name of the United States Customs Service.
  • bureaucratization — to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
  • café-au-lait spot — a brown patch on the skin that can occur normally in small numbers or in neurofibromatosis, when they are more numerous
  • calcium carbonate — a white crystalline salt occurring in limestone, chalk, marble, calcite, coral, and pearl: used in the production of lime and cement. Formula: CaCO3
  • calcium gluconate — a white, tasteless, water-soluble powder, CaC 12 H 22 O 14 , used as a dietary supplement to provide calcium.
  • calcium phosphate — the insoluble nonacid calcium salt of orthophosphoric acid (phosphoric(V) acid): it occurs in bones and is the main constituent of bone ash. Formula: Ca3(PO4)2
  • california nutmeg — a tall, pungently aromatic California evergreen tree, Torreya californica, of the yew family, having a fissured, gray-brown bark and small, purple-streaked, green fruit.
  • cannot choose but — to be obliged to
  • cape horn current — the part of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current flowing E at Cape Horn.
  • cariboo mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 3520 m (11 549 ft)
  • carlos de austriaDon [dawn] /dɔn/ (Show IPA), 1545–68, eldest son of Philip II of Spain: died during imprisonment for conspiracy against his father.
  • cartesian product — the set of all ordered pairs of members of two given sets. The product A × B is the set of all pairs <a, b> where a is a member of A and b is a member of B
  • case-study method — Also called case-study method [keys-stuhd-ee] /ˈkeɪsˈstʌd i/ (Show IPA). the teaching or elucidation of a subject or issue through analysis and discussion of actual cases, as in business education.
  • cast/run your eye — If you cast your eye or run your eye over something, you look at it or read it quickly.
  • castor and pollux — the twin sons of Leda: Pollux was fathered by Zeus, Castor by the mortal Tyndareus. After Castor's death, Pollux spent half his days with his half-brother in Hades and half with the gods in Olympus
  • causality paradox — the hypothetical cause-and-effect of time travel and making changes in the past that would affect current actions.
  • celestial equator — the great circle lying on the celestial sphere, the plane of which is perpendicular to the line joining the north and south celestial poles
  • cellular automata — cellular automaton
  • cellulose acetate — nonflammable material made by acetylating cellulose: used in the manufacture of film, dopes, lacquers, and artificial fibres
  • cellulose nitrate — a compound made by treating cellulose with nitric and sulphuric acids, used in plastics, lacquers, and explosives: a nitrogen-containing ester of cellulose
  • centrifugal force — In physics, centrifugal force is the force that makes objects move outwards when they are spinning around something or travelling in a curve.
  • chacun a son gout — each to his own taste
  • change one's tune — to alter one's attitude or tone of speech
  • chart of accounts — A chart of accounts is a list of all the accounts used in a business to classify transactions or report balances.
  • chateau cardboard — wine sold in a winebox
  • chemical equation — a representation of a chemical reaction using symbols of the elements to indicate the amount of substance, usually in moles, of each reactant and product
  • chemotherapeutics — chemotherapy.
  • chincoteague pony — a wild pony found on certain islands off the Virginia coast, apparently descended from Moorish ponies shipwrecked in this vicinity in the 16th century.
  • chocolate biscuit — a biscuit covered with chocolate
  • chugach mountains — a coastal mountain range in S Alaska, extending W from the St. Elias Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Marcus Baker, 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • circular function — trigonometric function (def 1).
  • circular velocity — the velocity at which a body must move in order to maintain an orbit at the outer edge of the earth's atmosphere.
  • circumlocutionary — a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
  • clairaut equation — a differential equation of the form y = xy prime; + f (y prime;).
  • clare boothe luceClare Boothe, 1903–87, U.S. writer, politician, and diplomat.
  • close punctuation — punctuation in which many commas, full stops, etc, are used
  • coastguard vessel — a ship used by the coastguard
  • coitus reservatus — the deliberate delaying or avoidance of orgasm during intercourse
  • coldstream guards — a guard regiment of the English royal household: formed in Coldstream, Scotland, 1659–60, and instrumental in restoring the English monarchy under Charles II.
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