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17-letter words containing a, n, u, c, l

  • castilla la nueva — Spanish name of New Castile.
  • castor and pollux — the twin sons of Leda: Pollux was fathered by Zeus, Castor by the mortal Tyndareus. After Castor's death, Pollux spent half his days with his half-brother in Hades and half with the gods in Olympus
  • catapult-launched — (of aircraft) launched into the air by a device installed in warships
  • caudal anesthesia — anesthesia below the pelvis, induced by injecting an anesthetic into the sacral portion of the spinal canal.
  • cellulose nitrate — a compound made by treating cellulose with nitric and sulphuric acids, used in plastics, lacquers, and explosives: a nitrogen-containing ester of cellulose
  • cellulose varnish — a varnish made from cellulose nitrate, used as a protective sealing film
  • centrifugal brake — a safety mechanism on a hoist, crane, etc, that consists of revolving brake shoes that are driven outwards by centrifugal force into contact with a fixed brake drum when the rope drum revolves at excessive speed
  • centrifugal force — In physics, centrifugal force is the force that makes objects move outwards when they are spinning around something or travelling in a curve.
  • chadless keypunch — (hardware)   A card punch which cut little U-shapes in punched cards, rather than punching out a circle or rectangle. The U's made a hole when folded back. One of the Jargon File's correspondents believed that the term "chad" derived from the Chadless keypunch. Obviously, if the Chadless keypunch didn't make them, then the stuff that other keypunches made had to be "chad". The assertion that the keypunch was named after its inventor is not supported by any record in US or UK patents or surname references.
  • châlons-sur-marne — city in NE France, on the Marne River: scene of defeat ( a.d. 451) of Attila by the Romans: pop. 50,000
  • chemical equation — a representation of a chemical reaction using symbols of the elements to indicate the amount of substance, usually in moles, of each reactant and product
  • chukchi peninsula — a peninsula in the extreme NE of Russia, in NE Siberia: mainly tundra
  • church of england — The Church of England is the main church in England. It has the Queen as its head and it does not recognize the authority of the Pope.
  • circassian walnut — the hard, heavy, brown or purplish wood of the English walnut
  • circular function — trigonometric function (def 1).
  • circular triangle — a triangle in which each side is the arc of a circle
  • circumlocutionary — a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
  • circumstantiality — the quality of being circumstantial
  • ciudad del carmen — a city in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche.
  • clairaut equation — a differential equation of the form y = xy prime; + f (y prime;).
  • classical nahuatl — Aztec (def 2).
  • classical-nahuatl — a member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortés in 1521.
  • close punctuation — punctuation in which many commas, full stops, etc, are used
  • cloud cuckoo land — an idealized, illusory domain of imagination; cloudland: the cloud-cuckoo-land of technicolor cartoon whimsy.
  • cloud-cuckoo-land — If you say that someone is living in cloud-cuckoo-land, you are criticizing them because they think there are no problems and that things will happen exactly as they want them to, when this is obviously not the case.
  • clumber (spaniel) — a short-legged spaniel with a heavy body and a thick coat of straight, white hair marked with yellow or orange
  • colloquialization — The process or result of making colloquial.
  • 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.
  • communal marriage — group marriage.
  • 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.
  • 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 terminal — a keyboard and computer monitor connected to a computer
  • conceptualisation — The act of conceptualising, or something conceptualised.
  • conceptualization — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • concessive clause — A concessive clause is a subordinate clause which refers to a situation that contrasts with the one described in the main clause. For example, in the sentence 'Although he was tired, he couldn't get to sleep', the first clause is a concessive clause.
  • 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.
  • conscience clause — a clause in a law or contract exempting persons with moral scruples
  • 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.
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