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17-letter words containing o, d

  • 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
  • coldstream guards — a guard regiment of the English royal household: formed in Coldstream, Scotland, 1659–60, and instrumental in restoring the English monarchy under Charles II.
  • collateral damage — Collateral damage is accidental injury to non-military people or damage to non-military buildings which occurs during a military operation.
  • collected edition — a comprehensive edition of the writings of a particular author.
  • colleterial gland — a paired accessory reproductive gland, present in most female insects, secreting a sticky substance that forms either the egg cases or the cement that binds the eggs to a surface
  • 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.
  • colloid chemistry — the study of colloids.
  • color-coordinated — with all parts or elements related, blended, or matched to a particular color scheme.
  • come to handgrips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • comedie francaise — the French national theatre, founded in Paris in 1680
  • comedy of manners — a comedy dealing with the way of life and foibles of a social group
  • commercial credit — credit issued by a bank to a business to finance trading or manufacturing operations.
  • commodity markets — stock markets in which commodities are traded
  • common difference — the positive or negative constant added to each term in an arithmetic progression
  • company commander — the commander of a company of soldiers
  • compartmentalised — Simple past tense and past participle of compartmentalise.
  • compartmentalized — separated into several discrete areas
  • compass deviation — deviation (def 4).
  • compensated grade — a grade that has been reduced along a curve to offset the additional resistance due to the curve.
  • complementary dna — a form of DNA artificially synthesized from a messenger RNA template and used in genetic engineering to produce gene clones
  • compound fraction — complex fraction
  • compound fracture — A compound fracture is a fracture in which the broken bone sticks through the skin.
  • compound interest — Compound interest is interest that is calculated both on an original sum of money and on interest which has previously been added to the sum. Compare simple interest.
  • compound interval — an interval that is greater than an octave, as a ninth or a thirteenth.
  • compound pendulum — physical pendulum.
  • compound sentence — a sentence containing at least two coordinate clauses
  • compressed speech — speech reproduced on tape at a faster rate than originally spoken, but without loss of intelligibility, by being filtered through a mechanism that deletes very small segments of the original signal at random intervals.
  • concurrent euclid — (language, parallel)   A concurrent extension of a subset of Euclid ("Simple Euclid") developed by J.R. Cordy and R.C. Holt of the University of Toronto in 1980. Concurrent Euclid features separate compilation, modules, processes and monitors, signal and wait on condition variables, 'converters' to defeat strong type checking, absolute addresses. All procedures and functions are re-entrant. TUNIS (a Unix-like operating system) is written in Concurrent Euclid.
  • condensing boiler — an energy-efficient boiler that makes use of what would otherwise be waste heat
  • condescendingness — The state or quality of being condescending.
  • congo-kordofanian — Niger-Kordofanian
  • consolidated fund — a fund into which tax revenue is paid in order to meet standing charges, esp interest payments on the national debt
  • consolidated laws — a body of laws collected together in a single codifying statute
  • consolidation act — an Act of Parliament resulting from the combination of two or more previous Acts of Parliament
  • consumer advocate — consumerist (def 1).
  • consumer spending — the percentage of an economy that is accounted for by what consumers spend
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • consumer-advocate — Also called consumer advocate. a person who is dedicated to protecting and promoting the welfare and rights of consumers.
  • continental drift — Continental drift is the slow movement of the Earth's continents towards and away from each other.
  • contraband of war — war materiel, as ammunition or weapons, which, by international law, may rightfully be intercepted and seized by either belligerent when shipped to the other one by a neutral country
  • contradictoriness — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
  • contradistinction — a distinction made by contrasting different qualities
  • contradistinctive — distinction by opposition or contrast: plants and animals in contradistinction to humans.
  • contradistinguish — to differentiate by means of contrasting or opposing qualities
  • contraindications — Plural form of contraindication.
  • control electrode — an electrode to which a varying signal is applied to vary the output of a transistor or vacuum tube.
  • convenience goods — goods which make people's lives easier
  • converged network — (networking)   A single network that can carry voice, video and data.
  • convoluted tubule — a portion of the nephron in the kidney that functions in concentrating urine and in maintaining salt, water, and sugar balance.
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