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17-letter words containing c, o, p, t, e, r

  • 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
  • copious free time — (jargon)   (Apple; originally from the introduction to Tom Lehrer's song "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier") Used ironically to indicate the speaker's lack of the quantity in question; a mythical schedule slot for accomplishing tasks held to be unlikely or impossible. Sometimes used to indicate that the speaker is interested in accomplishing the task, but believes that the opportunity will not arise. "I'll implement the automatic layout stuff in my copious free time." The phrase is also used for time reserved for bogus or otherwise idiotic tasks, such as implementation of bad chrome, or the stroking of suits. "I'll get back to him on that feature in my copious free time."
  • corel corporation — (company)   A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. In January 1989, however they entered the software publishing market with the introduction of CorelDraw. Corel became the second largest maker of personal productivity software in January 1996 when they purchased the WordPerfect family of software from Novell, Inc..
  • corporate culture — the distinctive ethos of an organization that influences the level of formality, loyalty, and general behaviour of its employees
  • corporate sponsor — a business that sponsors a particular type of event
  • corporate village — an area close to the workplace where many everyday facilities are provided for a company's workers
  • correspondentship — The role or status of correspondent.
  • counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
  • counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • counterproductive — Something that is counterproductive achieves the opposite result from the one that you want to achieve.
  • counterpropaganda — propaganda to offset or nullify unfriendly or enemy propaganda.
  • course protractor — a navigational instrument for measuring the bearing of a course as given on a chart, having a disk calibrated in degrees and an arm pivoted about the center of the disk.
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • cream of the crop — the best of a group
  • creeping eruption — a skin eruption with intense itching, caused by the burrowing of various larvae under the skin
  • criminal contempt — any seriously disrespectful act committed against the dignity or authority of a court.
  • cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cryptocrystalline — (of rocks) composed of crystals that can be distinguished individually only by the use of a polarizing microscope
  • cut a person dead — to ignore a person completely
  • cut a poor figure — to appear or behave badly
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • dialect geography — linguistic geography
  • dielectrophoresis — Dielectrophoresis is the movement of uncharged particles (= ones with no electrical charge) when a changing electric field is applied.
  • dipterocarpaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dipterocarpaceae, a family of trees chiefly native to tropical SE Asia, having two-winged fruits. Many species yield useful timber and resins
  • discrete preorder — (mathematics)   A preorder is said to be discrete if any two of its elements are incomparable.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • dissociated press — [Play on "Associated Press"; perhaps inspired by a reference in the 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Up, Doc?"] An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage even more efficiently than by passing it through a marketroid. The algorithm starts by printing any N consecutive words (or letters) in the text. Then at every step it searches for any random occurrence in the original text of the last N words (or letters) already printed and then prints the next word or letter. Emacs has a handy command for this. Here is a short example of word-based Dissociated Press applied to an earlier version of the Jargon File: wart: A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an array (C has no checks for this). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the phrase is bent so as to be not worth paying attention to the medium in question. Here is a short example of letter-based Dissociated Press applied to the same source: window sysIWYG: A bit was named aften /bee't*/ prefer to use the other guy's re, especially in every cast a chuckle on neithout getting into useful informash speech makes removing a featuring a move or usage actual abstractionsidered interj. Indeed spectace logic or problem! A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-based Dissociated Press to a random body of text and vgrep the output in hopes of finding an interesting new word. (In the preceding example, "window sysIWYG" and "informash" show some promise.) Iterated applications of Dissociated Press usually yield better results. Similar techniques called "travesty generators" have been employed with considerable satirical effect to the utterances of Usenet flamers; see pseudo.
  • droplet infection — infection spread by airborne droplets of secretions from the nose, throat, or lungs.
  • ectoparasiticides — Plural form of ectoparasiticide.
  • ectopic pregnancy — the development of a fertilized ovum outside the uterus, as in a Fallopian tube.
  • ehelp corporation — (company)   A vendor of Microsoft Windows application development tools such as RoboHELP and RoboDemo. EHelp were formerly (around 1997) Blue Sky Software. Address: 7777 Fay Avenue, Suite 201, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Telephone: +1-800-793-0364, +1 (619) 459 6365. Fax: +1 (619) 459 6366.
  • electrodeposition — The deposition of a metal on a cathode during electrolysis; used as a method of purification.
  • electromyographic — Using electromyography.
  • electrophysiology — The branch of physiology that deals with the electrical phenomena associated with nervous and other bodily activity.
  • electropositivity — (uncountable) the condition of being electropositive.
  • 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 cripple — someone who is unable to feel or show true emotion and so cannot form relationships with other people
  • ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
  • exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
  • factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
  • fictitious person — a legal entity or artificial person, as a corporation.
  • fingertip control — control exercised through your fingertips, e.g. by touching a touchscreen
  • first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
  • fluorescent strip — a fluorescent light in the form of a long strip
  • glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
  • health care proxy — a legal document in which a person can appoint someone to make decisions about medical treatment in the event that he or she is no longer mentally competent or able to communicate.
  • helicopter parent — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • hydrotherapeutics — hydrotherapy.
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