21-letter words containing e, n, t, r, u
- chinese water torture — a form of torture in which water is made to drip for a long period of time onto a victim's forehead to drive him insane
- clayton-bulwer treaty — an agreement between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1850 guaranteeing that any canal built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific across Central America would be jointly controlled, open to all nations, and unfortified.
- column address strobe — (hardware) (CAS) A signal sent from a processor (or memory controller) to a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) (qv) circuit to indicate that the column address lines are valid.
- comfortably-furnished — containing comfortable furniture
- communications server — (operating system) IBM's rebranding of ACF.
- compensation neurosis — an unconscious attempt to retain physical or psychological symptoms of illness when some advantage may be obtained (distinguished from malingering).
- completing the square — a method, usually of solving quadratic equations, by which a quadratic expression, as x 2 − 4 x + 3, is written as the sum or difference of a perfect square and a constant, x 2 − 4 x + 4 + 3 − 4 = (x − 2) 2 − 1, by addition and subtraction of appropriate constant terms.
- computer aided design — (application) (CAD) The part of CAE concerning the drawing or physical layout steps of engineering design. Often found in the phrase "CAD/CAM" for ".. manufacturing".
- computer conferencing — the conduct of meetings through the use of computer-based telecommunications
- computer-aided design — the use of computer techniques in designing products, esp involving the use of computer graphics
- compuware corporation — (company) A US software and service company established in 1973. Since 1973, Compuware focused on optimising business software development, testing and operation. In 1999 the company had grown to over 15,000 employees worldwide and revenues of more than $1.6B. By 2013 it had shrunk to less than 5000. Current (2013) products and services include performance optimisation, availability and quality of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications; project portfolio management, professional services automation; mainframe applications and developer tools; rapid application development and professional services.
- concurrent processing — the ability of a computer to process two or more programs in parallel
- concurrent resolution — a resolution passed by one branch of a legislature and concurred in by the other, indicating the opinion of the legislature but not having the force of law
- conductivity improver — A conductivity improver is a substance used to get rid of static electrical charge in fuel, and improve the flow of the fuel.
- confused flour beetle — a brown flour beetle, Tribolium confusum, that feeds on stored grain and grain products.
- congregational church — any evangelical Protestant Christian Church that is governed according to the principles of Congregationalism. In 1972 the majority of churches in the Congregational Church in England and Wales voted to become part of the United Reformed Church
- conjunction-reduction — a rule that reduces coordinate sentences, applied, for example, to convert John lives in Ireland and Brian lives in Ireland into John and Brian live in Ireland
- constituent structure — phrase structure.
- constitutional strike — a stoppage of work by the workforce of an organization, with the approval of the trade union concerned, in accordance with the dispute procedure laid down in a collective agreement between the parties
- construction engineer — a person trained in the profession of planning and managing the construction of buildings, bridges, etc
- consummatory behavior — a behavior pattern that occurs in response to a stimulus and that achieves the satisfaction of a specific drive, as the eating of captured prey by a hungry predator (distinguished from appetitive behavior).
- continuing resolution — legislation enacted by Congress to allow government operations to continue until the regular appropriations are enacted: used when action on appropriations is not completed by the beginning of a fiscal year.
- continuous processing — the systems in a plant or factory for the manufacturing of products, treating of materials, etc, that have been designed to run continuously and are often computer-controlled
- continuous stationery — paper that is perforated between pages and folded concertina fashion, used in dot-matrix, line, and daisywheel printers
- convertible debenture — a convertible bond that is not secured with collateral.
- convertible insurance — any form of life or health insurance, either individual or group, that enables the insured to change or convert the insurance to another form, as term to whole life insurance or group to individual health insurance.
- coordination language — (networking, protocol) A language defined specifically to allow two or more parties (components) to communicate in order to accomplish some shared goal. Examples of coordination languages are Linda and Xerox's CLF (STITCH).
- cosmological argument — one of the arguments that purport to prove the existence of God from empirical facts about the universe, esp the argument to the existence of a first cause
- counsel of perfection — excellent but unrealizable advice
- count of monte cristo — a novel (1844–45) by Alexandre Dumas père.
- counter-revolutionary — Counter-revolutionary activities are activities intended to reverse the effects of a previous revolution.
- counterdemonstrations — Plural form of counterdemonstration.
- counterinterpretation — An interpretation that goes against another interpretation.
- court of common pleas — (formerly) a superior court exercising jurisdiction in civil actions between private citizens
- credit card guarantee — If you pay for a booking at a hotel by credit card, a credit card guarantee allows the hotel to charge a cost to your credit card if you do not arrive on the day you arranged or if you damage something in the hotel.
- credit card insurance — Credit card insurance is coverage for situations in which someone fraudulently uses your credit card.
- credit life insurance — insurance guaranteeing payment of the unpaid portion of a loan if the debtor should die.
- crude oil dehydration — Crude oil dehydration is the removal of water or water vapor from crude oil, by separating the oil from the water, often in a rotating centrifuge.
- customer satisfaction — When customers are pleased with the goods or services they have bought, you can refer to customer satisfaction.
- dance to another tune — to alter one's actions or opinions as a result of changed conditions
- dead from the neck up — stupid or unintelligent
- death by misadventure — a possible verdict in a coroner's court, indicating that death was due to an accident not to a crimes or somebody's negligence
- department of justice — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for the enforcement of federal laws. Abbreviation: DOJ.
- desire under the elms — a play (1924) by Eugene O'Neill.
- dew-point temperature — the temperature to which air must be cooled, at a given pressure and water-vapor content, for it to reach saturation; the temperature at which dew begins to form.
- differential calculus — the branch of mathematics that deals with differentials and derivatives.
- differential equation — an equation involving differentials or derivatives.
- differential quotient — derivative (def 6).
- differential-quotient — something that has been derived.
- discretionary account — an account in which the stockbroker is allowed complete control over the purchase and sale of securities on the customer's behalf.