17-letter words containing c, l, a, s, o, n
- construction loan — the act or fact of taking out.
- consulate general — the office or residence of a consul general
- consumer sampling — a research technique in which targeted consumers are polled or tested for their receptiveness to a product or service
- contemplativeness — The state or quality of being contemplative.
- contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
- contextualisation — Alt form contextualization.
- continental crust — that part of the earth's crust that underlies the continents and continental shelves
- continental shelf — The continental shelf is the area which forms the edge of a continent, ending in a steep slope to the depths of the ocean.
- continental slope — a steep slope separating a continental shelf and a deep ocean basin.
- 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.
- conventionalities — Plural form of conventionality.
- conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
- cook island māori — a dialect of Māori spoken in the Cook Islands
- coordinate clause — one of two or more clauses in a sentence having the same status and introduced by coordinating conjunctions
- coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
- coronal consonant — a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue against the upper front teeth, or the gum just above it
- counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
- critical constant — any of three constants associated with the critical point of a pure element or compound.
- cross of lorraine — a cross with two horizontal bars above and below the midpoint of the vertical bar, the lower longer than the upper
- cross-correlation — the correlation between two sequences of random variables in a time series
- cross-lot bracing — bracing extending from one side of an excavation to the opposite to retain the earth on both sides.
- cross-pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another flower by the action of wind, insects, etc
- cross-utilization — to make use of in an additional or different way.
- 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
- daphnis and chloe — two lovers in pastoral literature, esp in a prose idyll attributed to the Greek writer Longus
- de-specialization — the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work: Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
- decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
- dehydrochlorinase — an enzyme that catalyzes the removal of hydrogen and chlorine atoms or ions from chlorinated hydrocarbons.
- delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
- denial of service — a deliberate interruption in access to a computer system or network, esp by using multiple computers to generate an unmanageable volume of traffic (distributed denial of service)
- denial-of-service — pertaining to or being an incident in which a computer or computer network is disabled, disrupting access or service: a website hit by a denial-of-service attack; unintentional denial-of-service problems.
- deoxyribonuclease — DNase.
- dephlogisticating — Present participle of dephlogisticate.
- deucalion's flood — a flood sent by Zeus that wiped out the entire population of the earth, except for Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha
- discomgoogolation — a feeling of anxiety felt by someone who is unable to access the internet
- disposable income — the part of a person's income remaining after deducting personal income taxes.
- disqualifications — Plural form of disqualification.
- dollars-and-cents — considered strictly in terms of money: from a dollars-and-cents viewpoint.
- early closing day — a day on which most shops in a town or area close after lunch
- elastic stockings — something made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid circulation
- electric constant — the permittivity of free space, which has the value 8.854 187 × 10–12 farad per metre
- electroanesthesia — Anesthesia induced by cranial electrotherapy stimulation.
- elementary school — primary school
- encephalomyelitis — Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically due to acute viral infection.
- exclusionary rule — a legal rule that evidence obtained illegally, as from a search without a warrant, may not be introduced at trial
- fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
- first call on sth — If you have first call on something, you will be asked before anyone else whether you want to buy or use it.