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17-letter words containing a, c, r, e, s, n

  • consonant cluster — a group of consonants without an intervening vowel
  • conspiracy theory — A conspiracy theory is a belief that a group of people are secretly trying to harm someone or achieve something. You usually use this term to suggest that you think this is unlikely.
  • constance garnett — Constance Black, 1862–1946, English translator from Russian.
  • consulate general — the office or residence of a consul general
  • consumer advocate — consumerist (def 1).
  • consumer research — business: investigation of behaviors
  • consumer sampling — a research technique in which targeted consumers are polled or tested for their receptiveness to a product or service
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • consumer-advocate — Also called consumer advocate. a person who is dedicated to protecting and promoting the welfare and rights of consumers.
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • continental crust — that part of the earth's crust that underlies the continents and continental shelves
  • contradictoriness — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
  • contradistinctive — distinction by opposition or contrast: plants and animals in contradistinction to humans.
  • contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
  • controversialness — The state or quality of being controversial.
  • conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
  • 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
  • coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
  • coronary arteries — either of two arteries that originate in the aorta and supply the heart muscle with blood.
  • corporate sponsor — a business that sponsors a particular type of event
  • corpus cavernosum — either of two masses of erectile tissue in the penis of mammals
  • counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
  • counter-signature — a signature added by way of countersigning.
  • counteraccusation — An accusation made in reply to another accusation.
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • countersignatures — Plural form of countersignature.
  • 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.
  • cream one's jeans — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
  • crew-neck sweater — a sweater with a crew neck
  • criminally insane — habitually criminal because of a psychological illness
  • 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.
  • cross of lorraine — a cross with two horizontal bars above and below the midpoint of the vertical bar, the lower longer than the upper
  • 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.
  • 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
  • customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
  • cut a person dead — to ignore a person completely
  • cutaneous quittor — a purulent infection of horses and other hoofed animals, characterized by an acute inflammation of soft tissue above the hoof and resulting in suppuration and sloughing of the skin and usually lameness.
  • d&o insurance — D&O insurance is a personal liability insurance that provides cover to the directors and senior executives of a company.
  • dagestan republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
  • data service unit — (communications)   (DSU or "data service unit") A device used in digital transmission for connecting a CSU (Channel Service Unit) to Data Terminal Equipment (a terminal or computer), in the same way that a modem is used for connection to an analogue medium. A DSU provides a standard interface to a user's terminal which is compatible with modems and handles such functions as signal translation, regeneration, reformatting, and timing. The transmitting portion of the DSU processeses the customers' signal into bipolar pulses suitable for transmission over the digital facility. The receiving portion of the DSU is used both to extract timing information and to regenerate mark and space information from the received bipolar signal.
  • de facto standard — A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, but which nevertheless has a large market share. The archetypal example of a de facto standard is the IBM PC which, despite is many glaring technical deficiencies, has gained such a large share of the personal computer market that it is now popular simply because it is popular and therefore enjoys fierce competition in pricing and software development.
  • decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
  • defence secretary — the member of a government who is responsible for the country's armed forces
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