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17-letter words containing a, m, o, n

  • 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.
  • contemplativeness — The state or quality of being contemplative.
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • content marketing — marketing that tries to attract customers by distributing informational content potentially useful to the target audience, rather than by advertising products and services in the traditional way: content marketing through blogs and email newsletters.
  • contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
  • controlling image — a literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol.
  • cook island māori — a dialect of Māori spoken in the Cook Islands
  • 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
  • corday (d'armont) — (Marie Anne) Charlotte1768-93; Fr. Girondist sympathizer: assassin of Marat
  • corner the market — dominate trade
  • corpus cavernosum — either of two masses of erectile tissue in the penis of mammals
  • counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
  • counter-migration — a migration in the opposite direction.
  • country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • cream one's jeans — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
  • credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
  • criminal contempt — any seriously disrespectful act committed against the dignity or authority of a court.
  • cromwellian chair — an upright oaken chair, often with arms, having all pieces turned and a seat and back panel of leather or cloth attached with brass-headed nails.
  • cross-examination — to examine by questions intended to check a previous examination; examine closely or minutely.
  • 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
  • customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
  • d&o insurance — D&O insurance is a personal liability insurance that provides cover to the directors and senior executives of a company.
  • damage limitation — Damage limitation is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
  • damon and pythias — two friends noted for their mutual loyalty. Damon offered himself as a hostage for Pythias, who was to be executed for treason by Dionysius of Syracuse. When Pythias returned to save his friend's life, he was pardoned
  • dark-complexioned — (of a person) having a dark complexion
  • data transmission — the act of sending data electronically over a communications network
  • decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
  • decriminalization — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
  • defamiliarisation — (arts) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
  • defamiliarization — Art, Literature. a theory and technique, originating in the early 20th century, in which an artistic or literary work presents familiar objects or situations in an unfamiliar way, prolonging the perceptive process and allowing for a fresh perspective.
  • dematerialisation — The act or process of dematerializing.
  • dematerialization — The act or process of dematerializing.
  • demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
  • demythologization — The act of demythologizing, or something demythologized.
  • dendroclimatology — The science that uses dendrochronology to reconstruct historical climate conditions.
  • denominate number — a number associated with a unit of measurement.
  • denominationalism — adherence to particular principles, esp to the tenets of a religious denomination; sectarianism
  • denominationalist — One imbued with a denominational spirit.
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • development grant — a grant awarded, esp by a government, to a person or company in order to fund the development of a new product
  • developmentalists — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • dextroamphetamine — a dextrorotatory amphetamine, used to suppress appetite
  • diatonic semitone — the pitch difference between certain adjacent degrees of the diatonic scale
  • dictionary-making — the work or activity of compiling dictionaries
  • dihydroergotamine — an ergot alkaloid, C 33 H 37 N 5 O 5 , used in the treatment of various types of migraine headache.
  • discomgoogolation — a feeling of anxiety felt by someone who is unable to access the internet
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