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17-letter words containing c, a, l, y, u, e

  • absolute monarchy — a monarchy without constitutional limits
  • accidental injury — bodily injury that has an accidental cause, rather than being caused by a disease process or a longstanding medical condition
  • accrued liability — the amount of liability accumulated at a given time but not yet paid.
  • acidity regulator — a substance, such as citric acid, added to food to change or maintain its pH value
  • active vocabulary — the total number of words a person uses in his own speech and writing
  • american mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
  • angular frequency — the frequency of a periodic process, wave system, etc, expressed in radians per second
  • articulated lorry — a lorry made in two separate sections, a tractor and a trailer, connected by a pivoted bar
  • ashby-de-la-zouch — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned (1569) in the castle. Pop: 11 409 (2001)
  • beauty specialist — a person who helps someone to improve their beauty, such as a make-up artist
  • black huckleberry — a low eastern North American shrub, Gaylussacia baccata, of the heath family, having yellowish-green leaves with resinous dots on the underside, clustered orange-red flowers, and shiny, black, edible fruit.
  • bluegrass country — region in central Ky. where there is much bluegrass
  • bouncebackability — the ability to recover after a setback, esp in sport
  • budgetary control — a system of managing a business by applying a financial value to each forecast activity. Actual performance is subsequently compared with the estimates
  • cabbage butterfly — a common white butterfly (Pieris rapae) whose green larvae feed upon cabbage and related plants
  • calcium cyanamide — a white crystalline compound formed by heating calcium carbide with nitrogen. It is important in the fixation of nitrogen and can be hydrolysed to ammonia or used as a fertilizer. Formula: CaCN2
  • calcium hydroxide — a white crystalline slightly soluble alkali with many uses, esp in cement, water softening, and the neutralization of acid soils. Formula: Ca(OH)2
  • camberwell beauty — a nymphalid butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, of temperate regions, having dark purple wings with cream-yellow borders
  • 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.
  • churchyard beetle — a blackish nocturnal ground beetle, Blaps mucronata, found in cellars and similar places
  • circular velocity — the velocity at which a body must move in order to maintain an orbit at the outer edge of the earth's atmosphere.
  • computer literacy — basic, nontechnical knowledge about computers and how to use them; familiarity and experience with computers, software, and computer systems.
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
  • country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
  • deoxyribonuclease — DNase.
  • disability clause — a clause in a life-insurance policy providing for waiver of premium and sometimes payment of monthly income if the policyholder becomes totally and permanently disabled.
  • duality principle — the principle that a mathematical duality exists under certain conditions.
  • dwarf huckleberry — tangleberry.
  • electrometallurgy — metallurgy involving the use of electric-arc furnaces, electrolysis, and other electrical operations
  • exclusionary rule — a legal rule that evidence obtained illegally, as from a search without a warrant, may not be introduced at trial
  • fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
  • floating currency — a currency that is free to fluctuate against other currencies in accordance with market forces
  • geological survey — U.S. Government. a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1879, that studies the nation's water and mineral resources, makes topographic surveys, and classifies and leases public lands.
  • heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
  • homeland security — national defence
  • household cavalry — (in Britain) cavalry units forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
  • hyperintellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
  • income inequality — a situation in which there is great disparity in income within a society
  • inconsequentially — The adverb form of inconsequential: to do something in a manner of little consequence.
  • joachim du bellay — Joachim [French zhaw-a-keem] /French ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), Bellay, Joachim du.
  • keep your balance — If you keep your balance, for example when standing in a moving vehicle, you remain steady and do not fall over. If you lose your balance, you become unsteady and fall over.
  • lance of courtesy — a lance having a blunt head to prevent serious injury by a jouster to an opponent.
  • lautenclavicymbal — a harpsichord with strings of gut rather than metal.
  • literary executor — a person entrusted with the publishable works and other papers of a deceased author.
  • luminous efficacy — the quotient of the luminous flux of a radiation and its corresponding radiant flux
  • macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
  • malagasy republic — former name of Madagascar.

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