17-letter words containing c, o, m, e, n, t
- contempt of court — Contempt of court is the criminal offence of disobeying an instruction from a judge or a court of law.
- content marketing — marketing that tries to attract customers by distributing informational content potentially useful to the target audience, rather than by advertising products and services in the traditional way: content marketing through blogs and email newsletters.
- contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
- controlling image — a literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol.
- convective mixing — Convective mixing is the action of mixing two groups of solid particles so that they are dispersed in each other.
- coordinate system — a system of coordinates that uses numbers to represent a point, line, or the like.
- copernican system — the theory published in 1543 by Copernicus which stated that the earth and the planets rotated around the sun and which opposed the Ptolemaic system
- corner the market — dominate trade
- counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
- counter-migration — a migration in the opposite direction.
- country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
- crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
- credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
- criminal contempt — any seriously disrespectful act committed against the dignity or authority of a court.
- cross-examination — to examine by questions intended to check a previous examination; examine closely or minutely.
- cumulative voting — a system of voting in which each elector has as many votes as there are candidates in his constituency. Votes may all be cast for one candidate or distributed among several
- customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
- deconstructionism — The belief in, or application of, deconstruction.
- decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
- decriminalization — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
- deduction theorem — the property of many formal systems that the conditional derived from a valid argument by taking the conjunction of the premises as antecedent and the conclusion as consequent is true
- democritus junior — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
- dendroclimatology — The science that uses dendrochronology to reconstruct historical climate conditions.
- despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
- diatonic semitone — the pitch difference between certain adjacent degrees of the diatonic scale
- document examiner — (hypertext, tool) A high-performance hypertext system by Symbolics that provides on-line access to their user documentation.
- domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
- dynamic execution — (processor) A combination of techniques - multiple branch prediction, data flow analysis and speculative execution. Intel implemented Dynamic Execution in the P6 after analysing the execution of billions of lines of code.
- election campaign — efforts to promote party or candidate to voters
- electromechanical — Of, relating to, or denoting a mechanical device that is electrically operated.
- electroretinogram — A record of the electrical activity of the retina, used in medical diagnosis and research.
- elementary school — primary school
- emergency rations — food and drink that is designated for use in an emergency: for example, in a famine, after a plane crash, when hill-walkers or mountaineers are stranded, etc.
- emission spectrum — the continuous spectrum or pattern of bright lines or bands seen when the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a substance is passed into a spectrometer. The spectrum is characteristic of the emitting substance and the type of excitation to which it is subjected
- emotional capital — When people refer to the emotional capital of a company, they mean all the psychological assets and resources of the company, such as how the employees feel about the company.
- emotional cripple — someone who is unable to feel or show true emotion and so cannot form relationships with other people
- employee discount — When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount, they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
- employment agency — company: finds jobs
- employment office — any of a number of government offices established to collect and supply to the unemployed information about job vacancies and to employers information about availability of prospective workers
- encephalomyelitic — Relating to encephalomyelitis.
- encephalomyelitis — Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically due to acute viral infection.
- enforcement order — an order by a court to force a person or organization to comply with a regulation or law
- ethnomusicologist — A researcher in the field of ethnomusicology.
- ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
- excess employment — excessive numbers of employees for the amount of work available
- exclamation point — exclamation mark
- executive mansion — the White House (in Washington, D.C.), official home of the President of the U.S.
- exfoliating cream — a granular cosmetic preparation that removes dead cells from the skin's surface
- fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
- fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape