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

cytotechnologists — the study of human cells to detect signs of cancer or other abnormalities.
d-shell connector — (hardware) One of the family of connectors: DA-15, DB-25, DC-37, DD-50, DE-9, and DEH-15 [VGA]. The "D" is the shape of the shell, the next letter determines connector size, and the number is the maximum pin count.
de facto standard — A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, but which nevertheless has a large market share. The archetypal example of a de facto standard is the IBM PC which, despite is many glaring technical deficiencies, has gained such a large share of the personal computer market that it is now popular simply because it is popular and therefore enjoys fierce competition in pricing and software development.
de-baathification — the process of removing the members and influence of the Ba'ath Party from public office in Iraq following the US-led invasion of 2003
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.
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.
decontextualizing — to remove (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) from a context: decontextualized works of art displayed in museums.
decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
decriminalization — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
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
dehistoricization — The process or result of dehistoricizing.
dehydrochlorinate — to remove hydrogen chloride or chlorine and hydrogen from (a substance).
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
dendroclimatology — The science that uses dendrochronology to reconstruct historical climate conditions.
dephlogisticating — Present participle of dephlogisticate.
designer clothing — Designer clothing is fashionable or luxury clothing made by, or carrying the label of, a well-known fashion designer.
despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
desynchronisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of desynchronization.
desynchronization — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
diacetone alcohol — a colorless, flammable liquid with a pleasant odor, C 6 H 12 O 2 : used as a solvent for lacquers, dyes, cellulose nitrate, and resins.
diatonic semitone — the pitch difference between certain adjacent degrees of the diatonic scale
dideoxynucleotide — (biochemistry) Any nucleotide formed from a deoxynucleotide by loss of a second hydroxy group from the deoxyribose group.
diethylene glycol — a syrupy colorless liquid, C 4 H 10 O 3 , used as a solvent for cellulose nitrate and as a fabric softener.
dietrich von bern — Theodoric of Verona: the name of the eastern Gothic emperor Theodoric as it appears in German legends.
diffused junction — a semiconductor junction formed by diffusing acceptor or donor impurity atoms into semiconductor material to form regions of p-type or n-type conductivity
digital recording — a method of sound recording in which an input audio waveform is sampled at regular intervals, usually between 40,000 and 50,000 times per second, and each sample is assigned a numerical value, usually expressed in binary notation.
diocletian window — a window in the form of a round-headed archway with a narrower compartment on either side, the side compartments usually being capped with entablatures on which the arch of the central compartment rests.
direct connection — A re-seller of Internet connections to the PIPEX backbone.
directionlessness — Absence of direction.
disidentification — The act of disidentifying, or rejecting a personal or group identity.
disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
district attorney — an officer who acts as attorney for the people or government within a specified district.
document examiner — (hypertext, tool) A high-performance hypertext system by Symbolics that provides on-line access to their user documentation.
dollars-and-cents — considered strictly in terms of money: from a dollars-and-cents viewpoint.
domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
double refraction — the separation of a ray of light into two unequally refracted, plane-polarized rays of orthogonal polarizations, occurring in crystals in which the velocity of light rays is not the same in all directions.
double track line — a railway line with double track
droplet infection — infection spread by airborne droplets of secretions from the nose, throat, or lungs.
dynamic execution — (processor) A combination of techniques - multiple branch prediction, data flow analysis and speculative execution. Intel implemented Dynamic Execution in the P6 after analysing the execution of billions of lines of code.
echo cancellation — A process which removes unwanted echoes from the signal on a telephone line. Echoes are usually caused by impedance mismatches along an analogue line.
ectopic pregnancy — the development of a fertilized ovum outside the uterus, as in a Fallopian tube.
education contact — (job) The person at a company who should receive educational material.
ehelp corporation — (company) A vendor of Microsoft Windows application development tools such as RoboHELP and RoboDemo. EHelp were formerly (around 1997) Blue Sky Software. Address: 7777 Fay Avenue, Suite 201, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Telephone: +1-800-793-0364, +1 (619) 459 6365. Fax: +1 (619) 459 6366.
elastic stockings — something made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid circulation
election campaign — efforts to promote party or candidate to voters
electric constant — the permittivity of free space, which has the value 8.854 187 × 10–12 farad per metre

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