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17-letter words containing c, o, r, e, l

  • conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
  • coordinate clause — one of two or more clauses in a sentence having the same status and introduced by coordinating conjunctions
  • coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
  • 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..
  • corporal of horse — a noncommissioned rank in the British Household Cavalry above that of sergeant and below that of staff sergeant
  • corporate culture — the distinctive ethos of an organization that influences the level of formality, loyalty, and general behaviour of its employees
  • corporate village — an area close to the workplace where many everyday facilities are provided for a company's workers
  • correlation ratio — the ratio of the variance between arrays of data within a sample to the variance of the whole sample.
  • costume jewellery — Costume jewellery is jewellery made from cheap materials.
  • council of europe — an association of European states, established in 1949 to promote unity between its members, defend human rights, and increase social and economic progress
  • counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
  • counter-influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • counterrevolution — A counterrevolution is a revolution that is intended to reverse the effects of a previous revolution.
  • country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
  • creme de violette — a liqueur flavored with vanilla extract and the essential oils of violets.
  • criminal contempt — any seriously disrespectful act committed against the dignity or authority of a court.
  • cromwellian chair — an upright oaken chair, often with arms, having all pieces turned and a seat and back panel of leather or cloth attached with brass-headed nails.
  • 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-correlation — the correlation between two sequences of random variables in a time series
  • crude oil cracker — A crude oil cracker is the part of a refinery and the equipment used for changing crude oil to its fractions, using heat and pressure.
  • cryptocrystalline — (of rocks) composed of crystals that can be distinguished individually only by the use of a polarizing microscope
  • culture diffusion — the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point.
  • customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
  • cyanogen chloride — a colorless, volatile, poisonous liquid, CNCl, used chiefly in the synthesis of compounds containing the cyano group.
  • cyclooctatetraene — a colorless, flammable liquid cyclic hydrocarbon, C 8 H 8 , used in organic research.
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • d-shell connector — (hardware)   One of the family of connectors: DA-15, DB-25, DC-37, DD-50, DE-9, and DEH-15 [VGA]. The "D" is the shape of the shell, the next letter determines connector size, and the number is the maximum pin count.
  • dark-complexioned — (of a person) having a dark complexion
  • david copperfield — a novel (1850) by Charles Dickens.
  • decellularization — (biology, medicine) The loss of cells from tissue.
  • decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
  • decriminalization — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
  • dehydrochlorinase — an enzyme that catalyzes the removal of hydrogen and chlorine atoms or ions from chlorinated hydrocarbons.
  • dehydrochlorinate — to remove hydrogen chloride or chlorine and hydrogen from (a substance).
  • delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
  • denatured alcohol — ethanol rendered unfit for human consumption by the addition of a noxious substance, as in methylated spirits
  • dendroarchaeology — (archaeology) the science that uses dendrochronology to date wooden material from archaeological sites.
  • dendroclimatology — The science that uses dendrochronology to reconstruct historical climate conditions.
  • denial of service — a deliberate interruption in access to a computer system or network, esp by using multiple computers to generate an unmanageable volume of traffic (distributed denial of service)
  • denial-of-service — pertaining to or being an incident in which a computer or computer network is disabled, disrupting access or service: a website hit by a denial-of-service attack; unintentional denial-of-service problems.
  • deoxyribonuclease — DNase.
  • designer clothing — Designer clothing is fashionable or luxury clothing made by, or carrying the label of, a well-known fashion designer.
  • desoxyribonucleic — Alternative spelling of deoxyribonucleic.
  • dessert chocolate — cooking chocolate
  • dialect geography — linguistic geography
  • dielectrophoresis — Dielectrophoresis is the movement of uncharged particles (= ones with no electrical charge) when a changing electric field is applied.
  • digital recording — a method of sound recording in which an input audio waveform is sampled at regular intervals, usually between 40,000 and 50,000 times per second, and each sample is assigned a numerical value, usually expressed in binary notation.
  • directionlessness — Absence of direction.
  • distributed logic — a computer system in which remote terminals and electronic devices, distributed throughout the system, supplement the main computer by doing some of the computing or decision making
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