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17-letter words containing n, o, c, t

  • travancore-cochin — a former Indian state that was a merger of Travancore and Cochin, two former princely states of India, and which became part of Kerala state in 1956
  • triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
  • trichloroethylene — a colorless, poisonous liquid, C 2 HCl 3 , used chiefly as a degreasing agent for metals and as a solvent, especially in dry cleaning, for fats, oils, and waxes. Abbreviation: TCE.
  • tropical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of diseases occurring in the tropics.
  • ts'ao hsueh-ch'in — (Ts'ao Chan) c1717–63, Chinese novelist: author of The Dream of the Red Chamber.
  • turn of the screw — a short novel (1898) by Henry James.
  • turn on the charm — If someone turns on the charm, they behave in a way that seems very friendly but which you think is insincere, often in order to obtain something or deceive someone.
  • turn-down service — In a hotel, a turn-down service is the preparation of a room for a guest to sleep in by slightly turning back the comforter on the bed, turning down the lights, and so on.
  • ultraconservative — extremely conservative, especially in politics.
  • ultramicrobalance — a balance for weighing precisely, to a hundredth of a microgram or less, minute quantities of material.
  • uncle tom's cabin — an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • uncomfortableness — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • unconformity trap — An unconformity trap is a hydrocarbon trap where the closure is made by an unconformity (= a formation of rock layers which represents a gap in the geological record).
  • unconscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
  • unconventionalist — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
  • unconventionality — disregard for convention; the state or quality of being inconsistent with customs, rules, etc.; originality.
  • uncooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • under the counter — (of merchandise) sold clandestinely.
  • under-the-counter — (of merchandise) sold clandestinely.
  • undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • unify corporation — (company)   Developers of the Unify relational database. At one time, before Sybase, they were a competitor of Oracle, et al.
  • unix to unix copy — (networking, messaging)   (uucp) A Unix utility program and protocol that allows one Unix system to send files to another via a serial line which may be a cable going directly from one machine's serial port to another's or may involve a modem at each end of a telephone line. Software is also available to allow uucp to work over Ethernet though there are better alternatives in this case, e.g. FTP or rcp for file transfer, SMTP for electronic mail or NNTP for news. The term is now also used to describe the large international network which uses UUCP to pass Usenet news and electronic mail, also known as "UUCPNET". See also cu, uuencode.
  • unofficial strike — a strike that is not approved by the strikers' trade union
  • unreconstructible — not capable of being reconstructed.
  • utopian socialism — (sometimes initial capital letter) an economic system based on the premise that if capital voluntarily surrendered its ownership of the means of production to the state or the workers, unemployment and poverty would be abolished.
  • vacant possession — ownership of an unoccupied house or property, any previous owner or tenant having departed
  • vacuum aspiration — menstrual extraction.
  • vacuum extraction — applying suction to a baby's head during birth to help it emerge
  • valence electrons — an electron of an atom, located in the outermost shell (valence shell) of the atom, that can be transferred to or shared with another atom.
  • velocity of money — the frequency with which a single unit of currency or the total money supply turns over within the economy in a given year.
  • vernacularization — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
  • victor emmanuel i — 1759–1824, king of Sardinia 1802–21.
  • victoriano huerta — Victoriano [beek-taw-ryah-naw] /ˌbik tɔˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1854–1916, Mexican general: provisional president of Mexico 1913–14.
  • village community — an early form of community organization in which land belonged to the village, the arable land being allotted to the members or households of the community by more or less permanent arrangements and the waste or excess land remaining undivided.
  • vitamin b complex — an important group of water-soluble vitamins containing vitamin B 1 , vitamin B 2 , etc.
  • vocational school — a school offering instruction in one or more skilled or semiskilled trades or occupations.
  • voice recognition — the control of a computer system by a voice or voices that the computer has been instructed to accept
  • voice synthesizer — a computer system that is used to artificially produce the human voice
  • voidable contract — a contract or agreement that is capable of being made of no legal effect or made void
  • war correspondent — a reporter or commentator assigned to send news or opinions directly from battle areas.
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • warsaw convention — a multilateral treaty on aviation set up chiefly to limit air carriers' liability to passengers and shippers on international flights in the event of an accident.
  • weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
  • wedding reception — party after a marriage
  • wind chill factor — A wind chill factor is a measure of the cooling effect of the wind on the temperature of the air.
  • wind-chill factor — the apparent temperature felt on the exposed human body owing to the combination of temperature and wind speed.
  • within an inch of — very close to
  • without exception — all included
  • working substance — a substance, usually a fluid, that undergoes changes in pressure, temperature, volume, or form as part of a process for accomplishing work.
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