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17-letter words containing c, m, o, n

  • pre-modifications — an act or instance of modifying.
  • precision bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped, as accurately as possible, on a specific, usually small, target.
  • primary education — junior, elementary schooling
  • pro forma invoice — an invoice issued before an order is placed or before the goods are delivered giving all the details and the cost of the goods
  • product placement — Product placement is a form of advertising in which a company has its product placed where it can be clearly seen during a film or television programme.
  • production number — a specialty number or routine, usually performed by the entire cast consisting of musicians, singers, dancers, stars, etc., of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, or the like.
  • production system — (programming)   A production system consists of a collection of productions (rules), a working memory of facts and an algorithm, known as forward chaining, for producing new facts from old. A rule becomes eligible to "fire" when its conditions match some set of elements currently in working memory. A conflict resolution strategy determines which of several eligible rules (the conflict set) fires next. A condition is a list of symbols which represent constants, which must be matched exactly; variables which bind to the thing they match and "<> symbol" which matches a field not equal to symbol. Example production systems are OPS5, CLIPS, flex.
  • profile component — attainment targets in different subjects brought together for the general assessment of a pupil
  • promenade concert — a concert at which some of the audience stand rather than sit
  • proton microscope — a powerful type of microscope that uses a beam of protons, giving high resolution and sharp contrast
  • pseudo-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • quantum computing — quantum computer
  • radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
  • recoil escapement — anchor escapement.
  • reconstructionism — a 20th-century movement among U.S. Jews, founded by Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, advocating that Judaism, being a culture and way of life as well as a religion, is in sum a religious civilization requiring constant adaptation to contemporary conditions so that Jews can identify more readily and meaningfully with the Jewish community.
  • recursion formula — a formula for determining the next term of a sequence from one or more of the preceding terms.
  • recursive acronym — (convention)   A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
  • redemption center — a commercial establishment at which trading stamps of a specific brand may be exchanged for merchandise.
  • reduction formula — a formula, such as sin (90° ± A) = cos A, expressing the values of a trigonometric function of any angle greater than 90° in terms of a function of an acute angle
  • remote-controlled — A remote-controlled machine or device is controlled from a distance by the use of radio or electronic signals.
  • renaissance woman — a woman who has acquired profound knowledge or proficiency in more than one field.
  • repertory company — repertory (def 2).
  • republic of yemen — Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
  • ribbon microphone — a microphone that utilizes a metal ribbon suspended in a magnetic field.
  • roman catholicism — the faith, practice, and system of government of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • romantic movement — the late 18th- and early 19th-century movement in France, Germany, England, and America to establish Romanticism in art and literature.
  • ross and cromarty — a historic county in NW Scotland.
  • roving commission — authority or power given in a general area, without precisely defined terms of reference
  • sacra romana rota — the official name of the Rota.
  • sacred roman rota — rota1 (def 3).
  • sanctimoniousness — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
  • sanctum sanctorum — the holy of holies of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem.
  • sandwich compound — any of a class of organometallic compounds whose molecules have a metal atom or ion bound between two plane parallel organic rings
  • sawatch mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains, in central Colo.: highest peak, Elbert
  • scientific method — a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.
  • second-hand smoke — from sb else's cigarette
  • second-in-command — A second-in-command is someone who is next in rank to the leader of a group, and who has authority to give orders when the leader is not there.
  • self-commendation — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
  • self-condemnation — the act of condemning.
  • self-confirmation — the act of confirming.
  • self-emancipation — the act of emancipating.
  • self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
  • semi-monopolistic — a person who has a monopoly.
  • semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
  • senatus consultum — a decree of the senate of ancient Rome.
  • shower attachment — a device fixed to taps to make a shower
  • sixth commandment — “Thou shalt not kill”: sixth of the Ten Commandments.
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • smoothing circuit — a circuit used to remove ripple from the output of a direct current power supply
  • snatch one's time — to leave a job, taking whatever pay is due
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