17-letter words containing c, o, n, s
- contradictoriness — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
- contradistinction — a distinction made by contrasting different qualities
- contradistinctive — distinction by opposition or contrast: plants and animals in contradistinction to humans.
- contradistinguish — to differentiate by means of contrasting or opposing qualities
- contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
- contraindications — Plural form of contraindication.
- contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
- control structure — (programming) One of the instructions, statements or groups of statements in a programming language which determines the sequence of execution of other instructions or statements (the control flow). In assembly language this typically consists of jumps and conditional jumps along with procedure call and return though some architectures include other constructs such as an instruction which skips the following instruction depending on some condition (PDP?), various kinds of loop instructions (later Motorola 680x0) or conditional execution of all instructions (Advanced RISC Machine). Basic control structures (whatever their names in particular languages) include "if CONDITION then EXPRESSION else EXPRESSION", the switch statement, "while CONDITION do EXPRESSION", "gosub", the suspect "goto" and the much-feared "come from". Other constructs handle errors and exceptions such as traps and interrupts.
- controversialness — The state or quality of being controversial.
- convenience goods — goods which make people's lives easier
- convenience store — A convenience store is a shop which sells mainly food and which is usually open until late at night.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- coronary arteries — either of two arteries that originate in the aorta and supply the heart muscle with blood.
- corporate sponsor — a business that sponsors a particular type of event
- corpus cavernosum — either of two masses of erectile tissue in the penis of mammals
- corpus spongiosum — a mass of tissue that, with the corpora cavernosa, forms the erectile tissue of the penis of mammals
- correspondentship — The role or status of correspondent.
- cost-plus pricing — the setting of prices at the cost price plus a percentage
- count one's beads — to pray with a rosary
- counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
- counter-signature — a signature added by way of countersigning.
- counteraccusation — An accusation made in reply to another accusation.
- counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
- counterinsurgency — action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
- counteroffensives — Plural form of counteroffensive.
- counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
- countersignatures — Plural form of countersignature.
- countersubversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- counterterrorists — Plural form of counterterrorist.
- court of sessions — any of state courts of criminal jurisdiction in California, New York, and a few other states.
- cream one's jeans — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- 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 one's heart — to promise or pledge, esp by making the sign of a cross over one's heart
- cross the rubicon — If you say that someone has crossed the Rubicon, you mean that they have reached a point where they cannot change a decision or course of action.
- cross-correlation — the correlation between two sequences of random variables in a time series
- cross-examination — to examine by questions intended to check a previous examination; examine closely or minutely.
- 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.
- crossover network — an electronic network in a loudspeaker system that separates the signal into two or more frequency bands, the lower frequencies being fed to a woofer, the higher frequencies to a tweeter
- cry in one's beer — to lament or complain in a maudlin manner
- cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.