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17-letter words containing i, n, s, c

  • chest compression — Chest compression is the act of applying pressure to someone's chest in order to help blood flow through the heart in an emergency situation.
  • chicken drumstick — a chicken leg, considered as food
  • chiltern hundreds — (in Britain) short for Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds; a nominal office that an MP applies for in order to resign his seat
  • china grass cloth — grass cloth.
  • chinaman's chance — Older Use: Offensive. a term used to refer to a Chinese person or a person of Chinese descent.
  • chinese artichoke — a hairy plant, Stachys affinis, of China and Japan, having numerous small, white, edible tubers.
  • chinese evergreen — a tropical Asian plant, Aglaonema modestum, of the arum family, often grown indoors, in water or soil, for its glossy green foliage.
  • chinese turkestan — the E part of the central Asian region of Turkestan: corresponds generally to the present-day Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China
  • chinese vermilion — pimento (def 3).
  • chord progression — movement from chord to chord
  • christian science — Christian Science is a type of Christianity which emphasizes the use of prayer to cure illness.
  • christmas present — a present given at Christmas time, typically on Christmas Day
  • christmas pudding — Christmas pudding is a special pudding that is eaten at Christmas.
  • chugach mountains — a coastal mountain range in S Alaska, extending W from the St. Elias Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Marcus Baker, 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • chukchi peninsula — a peninsula in the extreme NE of Russia, in NE Siberia: mainly tundra
  • cinisello balsamo — a city in N Italy, near Milan.
  • circassian walnut — the hard, heavy, brown or purplish wood of the English walnut
  • circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
  • circuit switching — (communications)   Communication via a single dedicated path between the sender and receiver. The telephone system is an example of a circuit switched network. The term connection-oriented is used in packet-based networks in contrast to connectionless communication or packet switching.
  • circumstantiality — the quality of being circumstantial
  • circumstantiating — Present participle of circumstantiate.
  • cistern barometer — a mercury barometer in which the lower mercury surface has a greater area than the upper.
  • citizen's charter — (formerly, in Britain) a government document setting out standards of service for public and private sector bodies, such as schools, hospitals, railway companies, water and energy suppliers, etc
  • civil partnership — A civil partnership is a legal relationship between two people of the same sex that is similar to marriage.
  • clang association — the association made between two words because they sound similar; for example cling and ring
  • class distinction — a characteristic that is observed to differ based on social class
  • classical chinese — a written form of Chinese used from about the 5th century b.c. to 220 a.d.
  • classical nahuatl — Aztec (def 2).
  • classical-nahuatl — a member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortés in 1521.
  • clear box testing — white box testing
  • cleveland heights — city in NE Ohio: suburb of Cleveland: pop. 50,000
  • clicks and mortar — making use of traditional trading methods in conjunction with internet trading
  • clicks-and-mortar — pertaining to or denoting a company that does business on the Internet and in traditional stores or offices.
  • clipperton island — an uninhabited atoll in the E Pacific SW of Mexico, under French administration. Area: 6 sq km (2.3 sq miles)
  • close corporation — a small private limited company
  • close parenthesis — right parenthesis
  • close punctuation — punctuation in which many commas, full stops, etc, are used
  • close to the wind — sailing as nearly as possible towards the direction from which the wind is blowing
  • closed-captioning — (of a television program, film, or video) distributed with synchronized transcription of speech and written descriptions of other relevant audio elements, as for the hearing-impaired, that are visible only when the option to display them is selected. Abbreviation: CC.
  • closing-down sale — a sale held to clear stock from a shop that is ceasing to operate
  • club subscription — an amount of money that someone pays regularly in order to belong to a club
  • clumber (spaniel) — a short-legged spaniel with a heavy body and a thick coat of straight, white hair marked with yellow or orange
  • coarse-grain salt — salt with a much larger grain size than table salt
  • codlins-and-cream — an onagraceous plant, Epilobium hirsutum, native to Europe and Asia and introduced into North America, having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves
  • cognitive science — the scientific study of cognition, including elements of the traditional disciplines of philosophy, psychology, semantics, and linguistics, together with artificial intelligence and computer science
  • cohesionless soil — any free-running type of soil, such as sand or gravel, whose strength depends on friction between particles
  • collaborativeness — Quality of being collaborative.
  • collision density — the rate at which collisions are occurring per unit volume per unit time, usually pertaining to the collisions of neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
  • collodion process — wet plate process.
  • colour separation — the division of a coloured original into cyan, magenta, yellow, and black so that plates may be made for print reproduction. Separation may be achieved by electronic scanning or by photographic techniques using filters to isolate each colour
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