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

  • contempt of court — Contempt of court is the criminal offence of disobeying an instruction from a judge or a court of law.
  • continental slope — a steep slope separating a continental shelf and a deep ocean basin.
  • contour ploughing — ploughing following the contours of the land, to minimize the effects of erosion
  • contract practice — the medical treatment of a group of persons by a physician or physicians with fees and services mutually agreed upon in advance.
  • contracting party — a person, company, etc, entering into a legal contract
  • cooperative party — (in Great Britain) a political party supporting the cooperative movement and linked with the Labour Party: founded in 1917
  • cooperative store — a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.
  • 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
  • copious free time — (jargon)   (Apple; originally from the introduction to Tom Lehrer's song "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier") Used ironically to indicate the speaker's lack of the quantity in question; a mythical schedule slot for accomplishing tasks held to be unlikely or impossible. Sometimes used to indicate that the speaker is interested in accomplishing the task, but believes that the opportunity will not arise. "I'll implement the automatic layout stuff in my copious free time." The phrase is also used for time reserved for bogus or otherwise idiotic tasks, such as implementation of bad chrome, or the stroking of suits. "I'll get back to him on that feature in my copious free time."
  • corel corporation — (company)   A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. In January 1989, however they entered the software publishing market with the introduction of CorelDraw. Corel became the second largest maker of personal productivity software in January 1996 when they purchased the WordPerfect family of software from Novell, Inc..
  • corporate culture — the distinctive ethos of an organization that influences the level of formality, loyalty, and general behaviour of its employees
  • corporate sponsor — a business that sponsors a particular type of event
  • corporate village — an area close to the workplace where many everyday facilities are provided for a company's workers
  • correspondentship — The role or status of correspondent.
  • cost-plus pricing — the setting of prices at the cost price plus a percentage
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • cream of the crop — the best of a group
  • creeping eruption — a skin eruption with intense itching, caused by the burrowing of various larvae under the skin
  • criminal contempt — any seriously disrespectful act committed against the dignity or authority of a court.
  • cross-pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another flower by the action of wind, insects, etc
  • crown corporation — a corporation owned by the federal or a provincial government
  • cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cryptic crossword — a crossword where each clue is a word puzzle
  • cryptoclimatology — See under microclimatology.
  • cryptocrystalline — (of rocks) composed of crystals that can be distinguished individually only by the use of a polarizing microscope
  • cryptographically — In a cryptographic manner; using cryptography; for cryptographic purposes.
  • cryptosporidiosis — a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Cryptosporidium, characterized by fever and gastrointestinal symptoms and typically spread via contaminated drinking water.
  • cut a person dead — to ignore a person completely
  • cut a poor figure — to appear or behave badly
  • cypriot syllabary — a syllabic script in use on Cyprus in the first millennium b.c., used for the writing of Greek and of an unknown language.
  • cytotrophoblastic — Relating to, or containing, cytotrophoblasts.
  • de-specialization — the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work: Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
  • dephlogisticating — Present participle of dephlogisticate.
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • dialect geography — linguistic geography
  • dielectrophoresis — Dielectrophoresis is the movement of uncharged particles (= ones with no electrical charge) when a changing electric field is applied.
  • dipterocarpaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dipterocarpaceae, a family of trees chiefly native to tropical SE Asia, having two-winged fruits. Many species yield useful timber and resins
  • discrete preorder — (mathematics)   A preorder is said to be discrete if any two of its elements are incomparable.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • dissociated press — [Play on "Associated Press"; perhaps inspired by a reference in the 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Up, Doc?"] An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage even more efficiently than by passing it through a marketroid. The algorithm starts by printing any N consecutive words (or letters) in the text. Then at every step it searches for any random occurrence in the original text of the last N words (or letters) already printed and then prints the next word or letter. Emacs has a handy command for this. Here is a short example of word-based Dissociated Press applied to an earlier version of the Jargon File: wart: A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an array (C has no checks for this). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the phrase is bent so as to be not worth paying attention to the medium in question. Here is a short example of letter-based Dissociated Press applied to the same source: window sysIWYG: A bit was named aften /bee't*/ prefer to use the other guy's re, especially in every cast a chuckle on neithout getting into useful informash speech makes removing a featuring a move or usage actual abstractionsidered interj. Indeed spectace logic or problem! A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-based Dissociated Press to a random body of text and vgrep the output in hopes of finding an interesting new word. (In the preceding example, "window sysIWYG" and "informash" show some promise.) Iterated applications of Dissociated Press usually yield better results. Similar techniques called "travesty generators" have been employed with considerable satirical effect to the utterances of Usenet flamers; see pseudo.
  • dna amplification — an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
  • droplet infection — infection spread by airborne droplets of secretions from the nose, throat, or lungs.
  • ectoparasiticides — Plural form of ectoparasiticide.
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