17-letter words containing a, n, t, s, e, r
- compression ratio — the ratio of the volume enclosed by the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine at the beginning of the compression stroke to the volume enclosed at the end of it
- 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.
- congestion charge — Congestion charges refer to money motorists must pay in order to drive in some city centres. Congestion charges are intended to reduce traffic within those areas.
- congregationalism — a system of Christian doctrines and ecclesiastical government in which each congregation is self-governing and maintains bonds of faith with other similar local congregations
- congregationalist — a form of Protestant church government in which each local religious society is independent and self-governing.
- conscript fathers — august legislators, esp Roman senators
- consequent stream — a stream the course of which was determined by the original slope of the land.
- conservation area — In Britain, a conservation area is an area where birds and animals are protected.
- consolation prize — A consolation prize is a small prize which is given to a person who fails to win a competition.
- 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 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
- 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
- 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.
- crew-neck sweater — a sweater with a crew neck
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.