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

  • 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
  • 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.
  • collegiate church — a church that has an endowed chapter of canons and prebendaries attached to it but that is not a cathedral
  • colloquialization — The process or result of making colloquial.
  • color temperature — a temperature defined in terms of the temperature of a black body at which it emits light of a specified spectral distribution: used to specify the color of a light source.
  • colour photograph — a photograph that is developed and printed in colour
  • 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
  • columnar jointing — (in basaltic igneous rocks) a series of generally hexagonal columns formed by vertical joints as a result of contraction during cooling.
  • commuter airplane — air taxi.
  • compilation album — a musical recording consisting of works chosen for a particular purpose or theme
  • 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.
  • complete fracture — a bone fracture in which the bone is split completely across.
  • 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.
  • compound interval — an interval that is greater than an octave, as a ninth or a thirteenth.
  • computer language — programming language
  • computer literacy — basic, nontechnical knowledge about computers and how to use them; familiarity and experience with computers, software, and computer systems.
  • computer literate — basic, nontechnical knowledge about computers and how to use them; familiarity and experience with computers, software, and computer systems.
  • computer terminal — a keyboard and computer monitor connected to a computer
  • computer-literate — If someone is computer-literate, they have enough skill and knowledge to be able to use a computer.
  • conceptualisation — The act of conceptualising, or something conceptualised.
  • conceptualization — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • concurrent pascal — (language)   An extension of a Pascal subset, Sequential Pascal, developed by Brinch Hansen in 1972-75. Concurrent Pascal was the first language to support monitors. It provided access to hardware devices through monitor calls and also supported processes and classes.
  • configurationally — With regard to a configuration.
  • consequentialness — The quality or state of being consequential.
  • consolidated fund — a fund into which tax revenue is paid in order to meet standing charges, esp interest payments on the national debt
  • consonant cluster — a group of consonants without an intervening vowel
  • constitutionalism — the principles, spirit, or system of government in accord with a constitution, esp a written constitution
  • constitutionalist — an adherent or advocate of constitutionalism or of an existing constitution.
  • constitutionality — In a particular political system, the constitutionality of a law or action is the fact that it is allowed by the constitution.
  • constitutionalize — to provide with a constitution
  • construction loan — the act or fact of taking out.
  • consulate general — the office or residence of a consul general
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • contextualisation — Alt form contextualization.
  • contextualization — The act or process of putting information into context; making sense of information from the situation or location in which the information was found.
  • continental crust — that part of the earth's crust that underlies the continents and continental shelves
  • continental quilt — a quilt, stuffed with down or a synthetic material and containing pockets of air, used as a bed cover in place of the top sheet and blankets
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
  • coordinate clause — one of two or more clauses in a sentence having the same status and introduced by coordinating conjunctions
  • corporate culture — the distinctive ethos of an organization that influences the level of formality, loyalty, and general behaviour of its employees
  • counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
  • courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
  • cross-utilization — to make use of in an additional or different way.
  • cumulative voting — a system of voting in which each elector has as many votes as there are candidates in his constituency. Votes may all be cast for one candidate or distributed among several
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