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17-letter words containing n, o, u, r

  • counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
  • counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
  • counter-influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
  • counter-migration — a migration in the opposite direction.
  • counter-signature — a signature added by way of countersigning.
  • counteraccusation — An accusation made in reply to another accusation.
  • counterattraction — a rival attraction
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • counterinitiative — An initiative opposing another initiative.
  • counterinsurgency — action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
  • counterirritation — (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere.
  • counteroffensives — Plural form of counteroffensive.
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • counterproductive — Something that is counterproductive achieves the opposite result from the one that you want to achieve.
  • counterpropaganda — propaganda to offset or nullify unfriendly or enemy propaganda.
  • counterrevolution — A counterrevolution is a revolution that is intended to reverse the effects of a previous revolution.
  • countersignatures — Plural form of countersignature.
  • countersubversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • counterterrorists — Plural form of counterterrorist.
  • country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
  • country of origin — the country from which a person originally comes
  • court of chancery — (in the US) a court of equity
  • court of sessions — any of state courts of criminal jurisdiction in California, New York, and a few other states.
  • court-of-chancery — chancery (def 4a).
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
  • creeping eruption — a skin eruption with intense itching, caused by the burrowing of various larvae under the skin
  • cross the rubicon — If you say that someone has crossed the Rubicon, you mean that they have reached a point where they cannot change a decision or course of action.
  • cross-utilization — to make use of in an additional or different way.
  • crucifixion thorn — one of several leafless, very thorny shrubs or small trees of the southwestern desert areas of North America.
  • culture diffusion — the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point.
  • customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
  • cut a person dead — to ignore a person completely
  • cutaneous quittor — a purulent infection of horses and other hoofed animals, characterized by an acute inflammation of soft tissue above the hoof and resulting in suppuration and sloughing of the skin and usually lameness.
  • d&o insurance — D&O insurance is a personal liability insurance that provides cover to the directors and senior executives of a company.
  • dangerous driving — the act of driving a motor vehicle in a manner that falls far below that expected of a competent and careful driver and hence puts the life of the driver and the lives of other road users at risk
  • decellularization — (biology, medicine) The loss of cells from tissue.
  • deconstructionism — The belief in, or application of, deconstruction.
  • deconstructionist — a philosophical and critical movement, starting in the 1960s and especially applied to the study of literature, that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability of language to represent reality and emphasizes that a text has no stable reference or identification because words essentially only refer to other words and therefore a reader must approach a text by eliminating any metaphysical or ethnocentric assumptions through an active role of defining meaning, sometimes by a reliance on new word construction, etymology, puns, and other word play.
  • deduction theorem — the property of many formal systems that the conditional derived from a valid argument by taking the conjunction of the premises as antecedent and the conclusion as consequent is true
  • delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
  • democritus junior — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
  • denatured alcohol — ethanol rendered unfit for human consumption by the addition of a noxious substance, as in methylated spirits
  • denominate number — a number associated with a unit of measurement.
  • deoxyribonuclease — DNase.
  • desoxyribonucleic — Alternative spelling of deoxyribonucleic.
  • dieu et mon droit — God and my right: motto of the Royal Arms of Great Britain
  • dining room suite — a set of furniture used in a dining room
  • dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
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