17-letter words containing o, i, l, e, r, s
- cellulose varnish — a varnish made from cellulose nitrate, used as a protective sealing film
- chelsea pensioner — an old ex-soldier resident in the Chelsea Royal Hospital
- chinese vermilion — pimento (def 3).
- chocolate soldier — a person who mistakenly believes that he or she is very powerful, important, or impressive
- circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
- clear box testing — white box testing
- 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-order drill — practice in formation marching and other movements, in the carrying of arms during formal marching, and in the formal handling of arms for ceremonies and guard.
- coarse-grain salt — salt with a much larger grain size than table salt
- cocktail waitress — a woman who serves in a bar or cocktail lounge
- 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
- collaborativeness — Quality of being collaborative.
- collodion process — wet plate process.
- colloid chemistry — the study of colloids.
- 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
- colour subcarrier — a component of a colour television signal on which is modulated the colour or chrominance information
- colour television — television that broadcasts in real-life colours, as opposed to black and white
- commercialisation — Alternative spelling of commercialization.
- compartmentalised — Simple past tense and past participle of compartmentalise.
- compartmentalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compartmentalize.
- complementariness — forming a complement; completing.
- complementarities — Plural form of complementarity.
- complimentariness — The state or quality of being complimentary.
- comprehensibility — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- condensing boiler — an energy-efficient boiler that makes use of what would otherwise be waste heat
- congregationalism — a system of Christian doctrines and ecclesiastical government in which each congregation is self-governing and maintains bonds of faith with other similar local congregations
- congregationalist — a form of Protestant church government in which each local religious society is independent and self-governing.
- consolation prize — A consolation prize is a small prize which is given to a person who fails to win a competition.
- consumer sampling — a research technique in which targeted consumers are polled or tested for their receptiveness to a product or service
- continental crust — that part of the earth's crust that underlies the continents and continental shelves
- contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
- controversialness — The state or quality of being controversial.
- conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
- coordinate clause — one of two or more clauses in a sentence having the same status and introduced by coordinating conjunctions
- cross of lorraine — a cross with two horizontal bars above and below the midpoint of the vertical bar, the lower longer than the upper
- cross-correlation — the correlation between two sequences of random variables in a time series
- cryptocrystalline — (of rocks) composed of crystals that can be distinguished individually only by the use of a polarizing microscope
- culture diffusion — the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point.
- cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
- decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
- defamiliarisation — (arts) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
- dehydrochlorinase — an enzyme that catalyzes the removal of hydrogen and chlorine atoms or ions from chlorinated hydrocarbons.
- delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
- deliver the goods — to produce or perform something promised or expected
- dematerialisation — The act or process of dematerializing.
- denial of service — a deliberate interruption in access to a computer system or network, esp by using multiple computers to generate an unmanageable volume of traffic (distributed denial of service)
- denial-of-service — pertaining to or being an incident in which a computer or computer network is disabled, disrupting access or service: a website hit by a denial-of-service attack; unintentional denial-of-service problems.
- deoxyribonuclease — DNase.