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

  • 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.
  • congregationalism — a system of Christian doctrines and ecclesiastical government in which each congregation is self-governing and maintains bonds of faith with other similar local congregations
  • congregationalist — a form of Protestant church government in which each local religious society is independent and self-governing.
  • conscript fathers — august legislators, esp Roman senators
  • consequent stream — a stream the course of which was determined by the original slope of the land.
  • consequentialness — The quality or state of being consequential.
  • conservation area — In Britain, a conservation area is an area where birds and animals are protected.
  • consolation prize — A consolation prize is a small prize which is given to a person who fails to win a competition.
  • consolidated fund — a fund into which tax revenue is paid in order to meet standing charges, esp interest payments on the national debt
  • consolidated laws — a body of laws collected together in a single codifying statute
  • consonant cluster — a group of consonants without an intervening vowel
  • 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.
  • constance garnett — Constance Black, 1862–1946, English translator from Russian.
  • constitutionalize — to provide with a constitution
  • consulate general — the office or residence of a consul general
  • consumer advocate — consumerist (def 1).
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • consumer-advocate — Also called consumer advocate. a person who is dedicated to protecting and promoting the welfare and rights of consumers.
  • contemplativeness — The state or quality of being contemplative.
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • contextualisation — Alt form contextualization.
  • continental crust — that part of the earth's crust that underlies the continents and continental shelves
  • continental shelf — The continental shelf is the area which forms the edge of a continent, ending in a steep slope to the depths of the ocean.
  • continental slope — a steep slope separating a continental shelf and a deep ocean basin.
  • contradictoriness — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
  • contradistinctive — distinction by opposition or contrast: plants and animals in contradistinction to humans.
  • contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
  • controversialness — The state or quality of being controversial.
  • conventionalities — Plural form of conventionality.
  • conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
  • cooperative store — a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.
  • coordinate clause — one of two or more clauses in a sentence having the same status and introduced by coordinating conjunctions
  • coordinate system — a system of coordinates that uses numbers to represent a point, line, or the like.
  • 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
  • coronary arteries — either of two arteries that originate in the aorta and supply the heart muscle with blood.
  • corporate sponsor — a business that sponsors a particular type of event
  • count one's beads — to pray with a rosary
  • counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
  • counter-signature — a signature added by way of countersigning.
  • counteraccusation — An accusation made in reply to another accusation.
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • countersignatures — Plural form of countersignature.
  • 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.
  • cover your tracks — If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret.
  • creature comforts — Creature comforts are the things that you need to feel comfortable in a place, for example good food and modern equipment.
  • cross one's heart — to promise or pledge, esp by making the sign of a cross over one's heart
  • cross-correlation — the correlation between two sequences of random variables in a time series
  • cross-examination — to examine by questions intended to check a previous examination; examine closely or minutely.
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