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17-letter words containing c, o, s, t, a, b

  • confirmation-bias — the tendency to process and analyze information in such a way that it supports one’s preexisting ideas and convictions: Confirmation bias is a major issue when we get all our news from social media sites. Unfortunately, their experimental method was proven invalid due to confirmation bias.
  • consubstantiation — the doctrine that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists within the substance of the consecrated bread and wine
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
  • count one's beads — to pray with a rosary
  • cross-lot bracing — bracing extending from one side of an excavation to the opposite to retain the earth on both sides.
  • customs brokerage — the work of a customs broker
  • cypriot syllabary — a syllabic script in use on Cyprus in the first millennium b.c., used for the writing of Greek and of an unknown language.
  • cytotrophoblastic — Relating to, or containing, cytotrophoblasts.
  • fulgencio batista — Fulgencio [fool-hen-syaw] /fulˈhɛn syɔ/ (Show IPA), (Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar) 1901–73, Cuban military leader: dictator of Cuba 1934–40; president 1940–44, 1952–59.
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • hubble's constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
  • job specification — a detailed description of the qualifications, skills, and experience required for a particular post of employment
  • laboratory school — a school maintained by a college or university for the training of student teachers.
  • liberal democrats — (in Britain) a political party with centrist policies; established in 1988 as the Social and Liberal Democrats when the Liberal Party merged with the Social Democratic Party; renamed Liberal Democrats in 1989
  • librocubicularist — (rare) A person who reads in bed.
  • objectionableness — The quality of being objectionable.
  • on the pig's back — successful; established
  • opisthobranchiate — (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Opisthobranchiata.
  • otto von bismarck — Otto von [ot-oh von;; German aw-toh fuh n] /ˈɒt oʊ vɒn;; German ˈɔ toʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–98, German statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire 1871–90.
  • outside broadcast — An outside broadcast is a radio or television programme that is not recorded or filmed in a studio, but in another building or in the open air.
  • paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
  • pitot-static tube — a device combining a Pitot tube with a static tube: used to measure airspeed.
  • pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
  • positive feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
  • postbaccalaureate — bachelor's degree.
  • sanctions-busting — the deliberate disregarding of sanctions that are in force against a state, organization, etc
  • sandro botticelli — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • saxe-coburg-gotha — a member of the present British royal family, from the establishment of the house in 1901 until 1917 when the family name was changed to Windsor.
  • secondary battery — storage battery.
  • secondary boycott — a boycott by union members against their employer in order to induce the employer to bring pressure on another company involved in a labor dispute with the union.
  • self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
  • smokeless tobacco — snuff1 (def 9).
  • sodium bichromate — a red or orange crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 Cr 2 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and inks, as a corrosion inhibitor, a mordant, a laboratory reagent, in the tanning of leather, and in electroplating.
  • special constable — a person recruited for temporary or occasional police duties, esp in time of emergency
  • spoonbill catfish — flathead catfish.
  • subject catalogue — a catalogue with entries arranged by subject in a classified sequence
  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • subtractive color — cyan, yellow, or magenta, as used in the subtractive process of color photography.
  • the bag of tricks — every device; everything
  • the barbary coast — a historic name for the Mediterranean coast of North Africa: a centre of piracy against European shipping from the 16th to the 19th centuries
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • transonic barrier — sound barrier.
  • turbosupercharger — (formerly) a turbocharger.
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