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17-letter words containing c, o, n, e, y

  • energy conversion — the process of changing one form of energy into another, such as nuclear energy into heat or solar energy into electrical energy
  • 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
  • exclusionary rule — a legal rule that evidence obtained illegally, as from a search without a warrant, may not be introduced at trial
  • factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
  • fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
  • fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
  • floating currency — a currency that is free to fluctuate against other currencies in accordance with market forces
  • forcing frequency — the frequency of an oscillating force applied to a system
  • foreign secretary — foreign minister.
  • fraternal society — a club or other association, usually of men, having a limited membership and devoted to professional, religious, charitable, or social activities.
  • frequency polygon — a frequency curve consisting of connected line segments formed by joining the midpoints of the upper edges of the rectangles in a histogram whose class intervals are of uniform length.
  • garlic mayonnaise — mayonnaise flavoured with garlic
  • go to the country — If a head of government or a government goes to the country, they hold a general election.
  • guilty conscience — Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
  • haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
  • hamiltonian cycle — Hamiltonian problem
  • henry cabot lodge — Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. public servant and author: senator 1893–1924.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • hydrogen chloride — a colorless gas, HCl, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrochloric acid.
  • hyperbolic cosine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; cosh
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • hyperchlorination — Chemistry. to combine or treat with chlorine. to introduce chlorine atoms into an organic compound by an addition or substitution reaction.
  • hyperconnectivity — Hyperconnectivity is the use of many systems and devices so that you are always connected to social networks and other sources of information.
  • hypodermic needle — a hollow needle used to inject solutions subcutaneously.
  • identity function — identity (def 9d).
  • identity politics — political activity or movements based on or catering to the cultural, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, or social interests that characterize a group identity.
  • income inequality — a situation in which there is great disparity in income within a society
  • incomprehensively — In an incomprehensive manner.
  • incompressibility — The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.
  • inconsequentially — The adverb form of inconsequential: to do something in a manner of little consequence.
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • interconnectivity — The state or quality of being interconnected.
  • intersectionality — the theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual (often used attributively): Her paper uses a queer intersectionality approach.
  • inventory control — the process of monitoring and adjusting the amount of items available, esp to avoid having too many or too few for current demand
  • iontophoretically — By means of iontophoresis.
  • irreconcilability — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
  • 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.
  • keyboard commando — (messaging)   A bulletin board user who posts authoritatively on military or combat topics, but who has never served in uniform or heard a shot fired in anger. A poseur.
  • knowledge economy — an economy in which information services are dominant as an area of growth
  • lance of courtesy — a lance having a blunt head to prevent serious injury by a jouster to an opponent.
  • low-velocity zone — a layer or zone in the earth in which the velocity of seismic waves is slightly lower than in the layers above and below. The asthenosphere is thought to be such a zone
  • 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.
  • magnetoelasticity — the phenomenon, consisting of a change in magnetic properties, exhibited by a ferromagnetic material to which stress is applied.
  • majority decision — a decision supported by more than half the people involved
  • many-valued logic — the study of logical systems in which the truth-values that a proposition may have are not restricted to two, representing only truth and falsity
  • maraschino cherry — a cherry cooked in colored syrup and flavored with maraschino, used to garnish desserts, cocktails, etc.
  • marriage ceremony — official part of a wedding
  • membrane recovery — Membrane recovery is a process which uses membranes to obtain hydrogen from refinery fuel gas, hydrocrackers, and chemical processes such as methanol production.
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