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17-letter words containing e, a, c, h, r

  • clare boothe luce — Clare Boothe, 1903–87, U.S. writer, politician, and diplomat.
  • close parenthesis — right parenthesis
  • code of behaviour — the generally accepted rules governing how people behave
  • code of hammurabi — a Babylonian legal code of the 18th century b.c. or earlier, instituted by Hammurabi and dealing with criminal and civil matters.
  • cognitive therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to change the way he or sees the world and himself or herself: used particularly to treat depression
  • coin of the realm — legal tender.
  • collegiate church — a church that has an endowed chapter of canons and prebendaries attached to it but that is not a cathedral
  • combine harvester — A combine harvester is a large machine which is used on farms to cut, sort, and clean grain.
  • come to handgrips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • come to the party — to take part or become involved
  • committal hearing — (in British law) a preliminary inquiry by a magistrate to decide if there is enough evidence for a case to go to trial
  • computer graphics — the use of a computer to produce and manipulate pictorial images on a video screen, as in animation techniques or the production of audiovisual aids
  • congestion charge — Congestion charges refer to money motorists must pay in order to drive in some city centres. Congestion charges are intended to reduce traffic within those areas.
  • connection charge — a charge made as soon as a caller is connected to the number dialled and which is additional to any charges calculated based on the duration of the call
  • conscript fathers — august legislators, esp Roman senators
  • conspiracy theory — A conspiracy theory is a belief that a group of people are secretly trying to harm someone or achieve something. You usually use this term to suggest that you think this is unlikely.
  • consumer research — business: investigation of behaviors
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • control character — a character in a data stream that signals the device receiving the data to perform a particular control function, as changing the line spacing on a printer from single to double-spaced.
  • convection heater — A convection heater is a heater that heats a room by means of hot air.
  • coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
  • corner the market — dominate trade
  • corporal of horse — a noncommissioned rank in the British Household Cavalry above that of sergeant and below that of staff sergeant
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • court of chancery — (in the US) a court of equity
  • court-of-chancery — chancery (def 4a).
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • cream of the crop — the best of a group
  • creature of habit — If you say that someone is a creature of habit, you mean that they usually do the same thing at the same time each day, rather than doing new and different things.
  • 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 one's heart — to promise or pledge, esp by making the sign of a cross over one's heart
  • cultural exchange — an exchange of students, artists, athletes, etc., between two countries to promote mutual understanding.
  • cyanogen chloride — a colorless, volatile, poisonous liquid, CNCl, used chiefly in the synthesis of compounds containing the cyano group.
  • cyrillic alphabet — the alphabet derived from that of the Greeks, supposedly by Saint Cyril, for the writing of Slavonic languages: now used primarily for Russian, Bulgarian, and the Serbian dialect of Serbo-Croat
  • cytoarchitectonic — Of or pertaining to cytoarchitectonics (cytoarchitecture).
  • death certificate — A death certificate is an official certificate signed by a doctor which states the cause of a person's death.
  • dehistoricization — The process or result of dehistoricizing.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • dessert chocolate — cooking chocolate
  • desynchronisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of desynchronization.
  • desynchronization — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • dialect geography — linguistic geography
  • doberman pinscher — one of a German breed of medium-sized, short-haired dogs having a black, brown, or blue coat with rusty brown markings.
  • dwarf huckleberry — tangleberry.
  • echocardiographer — A person who performs echocardiography.
  • echocardiographic — Of or pertaining to echocardiography.
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