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17-letter words containing c, o, n, u, p

  • psycholinguistics — the study of the relationship between language and the cognitive or behavioral characteristics of those who use it.
  • public accountant — an accountant whose services are available to the public at large, in contrast to one employed on a full-time basis by a company.
  • public television — a type of noncommercial, usually educational, television programming funded by the government, grants, viewers, and corporations. Compare educational television.
  • put into practice — If you put a belief or method into practice, you behave or act in accordance with it.
  • put the screws on — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • put up at auction — to offer for sale at an auction
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • quantum computing — quantum computer
  • republic of china — People's Republic of, a country in E Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Capital: Beijing.
  • 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.
  • republic-of-china — People's Republic of, a country in E Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Capital: Beijing.
  • rescue operations — operations or organized procedures to bring people or a person out of danger, attack, harm, etc
  • reticulate python — a python, Python reticulatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, sometimes growing to a length of 32 feet (10 meters): usually considered to be the largest snake in the world.
  • return of capital — A return of capital is a situation in which you receive back money that was previously invested.
  • return on capital — A return on capital is any earnings that you receive from the capital that you have invested.
  • ribonucleoprotein — a substance composed of RNA in close association with protein; a nucleoprotein containing RNA. Abbreviation: RNP.
  • rocket propulsion — propulsion of an object by thrust developed by a rocket.
  • roll with a punch — to move in the same direction as a punch thrown at one so as to lessen its force
  • round-trip ticket — a ticket entitling a passenger to travel to his or her destination and back again
  • safety precaution — a precaution that is taken in order to ensure that something is safe and not dangerous
  • sandwich compound — any of a class of organometallic compounds whose molecules have a metal atom or ion bound between two plane parallel organic rings
  • school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
  • secondary product — a product that is not the main product of an industry; a by-product
  • self-purification — a natural process of purifying, as the ability of a body of water to rid itself of pollutants.
  • self-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
  • sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
  • south sea company — a British joint stock company that traded in South America in the 18th century. The South Sea Company took over the national debt in return for a monopoly of trade with the South Seas, causing feverish speculation in their stocks, and a financial crash in 1720 (the South Sea Bubble)
  • special education — education that is modified or particularized for those with singular needs, as disabled or maladjusted people, slow learners, or gifted children.
  • spot announcement — a brief radio or television announcement, usually an advertisement, made by an individual station during or after a network program.
  • stand-up comedian — performer: tells jokes
  • storm in a teacup — a violent fuss or disturbance over a trivial matter
  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • suction lipectomy — the removal of fatty tissue by making a small incision in the skin, loosening the fat layer, and withdrawing it by suction.
  • superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
  • supercolumniation — the placing of one order of columns above another.
  • superconductivity — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
  • support mechanism — any formal system or method of providing support or assistance
  • supreme commander — the military officer commanding all allied forces in a theater of war.
  • synchronous speed — the speed at which an alternating-current machine must operate to generate electromotive force at a given frequency.
  • technical support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • temporary account — A temporary account is an account which is closed out at the end of the year.
  • thousandths-place — last in order of a series of a thousand.
  • top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
  • trapdoor function — a function defined from data by means of a mathematical procedure in such a way that it is easy to obtain the function when the data are known, but when the procedure and data are not known it becomes very difficult to determine the original data: used in cryptography, where the data are the characters of the plain text, or message, and the trapdoor function is the cryptogram.
  • uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • uncomprehendingly — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • unconformity trap — An unconformity trap is a hydrocarbon trap where the closure is made by an unconformity (= a formation of rock layers which represents a gap in the geological record).
  • uncooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • unify corporation — (company)   Developers of the Unify relational database. At one time, before Sybase, they were a competitor of Oracle, et al.
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