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17-letter words containing a, n, t, e, r

  • counterirritation — (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere.
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • counterpropaganda — propaganda to offset or nullify unfriendly or enemy propaganda.
  • countersignatures — Plural form of countersignature.
  • country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
  • court of chancery — (in the US) a court of equity
  • court-of-chancery — chancery (def 4a).
  • 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.
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
  • crew-neck sweater — a sweater with a crew neck
  • criminal contempt — any seriously disrespectful act committed against the dignity or authority of a court.
  • 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 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.
  • cruciate ligament — A cruciate ligament is either of a pair of ligaments that cross at the knee.
  • 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
  • cultural exchange — an exchange of students, artists, athletes, etc., between two countries to promote mutual understanding.
  • 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.
  • cyclooctatetraene — a colorless, flammable liquid cyclic hydrocarbon, C 8 H 8 , used in organic research.
  • cylinder capacity — the cylinder volume that is swept by the pistons of an internal-combustion engine
  • cytoarchitectonic — Of or pertaining to cytoarchitectonics (cytoarchitecture).
  • 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)
  • dante (alighieri) — (born Durante Alighieri) 1265-1321; It. poet: wrote The Divine Comedy
  • darwinian fitness — fitness (def 3).
  • darwinian-fitness — health.
  • 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.
  • daughter language — a language that has evolved from another specified language.
  • 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.
  • dead in the water — If you say that someone or something is dead in the water, you are emphasizing that they have failed, and that there is little hope of them being successful in the future.
  • dead tree edition — dead tree
  • decellularization — (biology, medicine) The loss of cells from tissue.
  • decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
  • decriminalization — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
  • dedifferentiating — Present participle of dedifferentiate.
  • dedifferentiation — the reversion of the cells of differentiated tissue to a less specialized form
  • deepwater horizon — an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, 40 miles (64km) south-east off the coast of Louisiana, that suffered a massive oil spill following an explosion in April 2010
  • 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.
  • defence secretary — the member of a government who is responsible for the country's armed forces
  • definite integral — the evaluation of the indefinite integral between two limits, representing the area between the given function and the x-axis between these two values of x
  • degenerate matter — the highly compressed state of matter, esp in white dwarfs and neutron stars, supported against gravitational collapse by quantum mechanical effects
  • dehistoricization — The process or result of dehistoricizing.
  • dehydrochlorinate — to remove hydrogen chloride or chlorine and hydrogen from (a substance).
  • deindustrializing — Present participle of deindustrialize.
  • delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
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