17-letter words containing c, h, i, u, n, g
- buckingham palace — the London residence of the British sovereign: built in 1703, rebuilt by John Nash in 1821–36 and partially redesigned in the early 20th century
- buttock-clenching — making one tighten the buttocks through extreme fear or embarrassment
- casting the runes — (jargon) What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program because it never works for anyone else; especially used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J. Random Luser does. Compare incantation, runes, examining the entrails; also see the AI koan about Tom Knight.
- chincoteague pony — a wild pony found on certain islands off the Virginia coast, apparently descended from Moorish ponies shipwrecked in this vicinity in the 16th century.
- christmas pudding — Christmas pudding is a special pudding that is eaten at Christmas.
- chugach mountains — a coastal mountain range in S Alaska, extending W from the St. Elias Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Marcus Baker, 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- circuit switching — (communications) Communication via a single dedicated path between the sender and receiver. The telephone system is an example of a circuit switched network. The term connection-oriented is used in packet-based networks in contrast to connectionless communication or packet switching.
- contour ploughing — ploughing following the contours of the land, to minimize the effects of erosion
- contradistinguish — to differentiate by means of contrasting or opposing qualities
- cushing's disease — a rare condition caused by excess corticosteroid hormones in the body, characterized chiefly by obesity of the trunk and face, high blood pressure, fatigue, and loss of calcium from the bones
- debt rescheduling — the process of changing the time frame or deadline for the repayment of debt, usually to ease the burden on the debtor
- ethnomusicologist — A researcher in the field of ethnomusicology.
- fluorescent light — a fluorescent lamp in domestic or commercial use; a fluorescent strip
- freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
- functional change — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
- housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
- human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
- hurricane warning — a storm warning given for winds with speeds exceeding 63 knots (72 mph, 32 m/sec) when the source of the winds is a tropical cyclone.
- huygens principle — the principle that all points on a wave front of light are sources of secondary waves and that surfaces tangential to these waves define the position of the wave front at any point in time.
- huygens' eyepiece — a telescope eyepiece consisting of two planoconvex lenses separated by a distance equal to half the sum of their focal lengths, which are in the ratio of three to one, and oriented so that their curved surfaces face the incident light
- in the background — behind the focus of attention
- induction heating — a method of heating a conducting material, as metal in a furnace, by using electromagnetic induction to establish a current in the material.
- light machine gun — any air-cooled machine gun having a caliber not greater than 0.30 inches (7.6 mm).
- nautical twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 12° below the horizon
- neuropathological — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from neuropathology, the pathology of nerve tissue.
- neuropsychologist — A neurologist or psychologist whose speciality is neuropsychology.
- numbering machine — a handheld device for stamping numbers onto objects
- overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
- phonological rule — an operation in generative phonology that substitutes one sound or class of sounds for another in a phonological derivation.
- psycholinguistics — the study of the relationship between language and the cognitive or behavioral characteristics of those who use it.
- shouting distance — hailing distance.
- smoothing circuit — a circuit used to remove ripple from the output of a direct current power supply
- stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
- the witching hour — the hour at which witches are supposed to appear, usually midnight
- thermocoagulation — the coagulation of tissue by heat-producing high-frequency electric currents, used therapeutically to remove small growths or to create specific lesions in the brain.
- three-ring circus — a circus having three adjacent rings in which performances take place simultaneously.
- uncomprehendingly — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- vulcan death grip — (jargon) A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.
- warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
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