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17-letter words containing r, a, n, s, c, k

  • actinic keratosis — a precancerous skin condition, characterized by rough red, scaly patches; it is caused by cumulative exposure to the sun and is most common in fair-skinned people
  • alaskan king crab — king crab (def 2).
  • back on the rails — If something is back on the rails, it is beginning to be successful again after a period when it almost failed.
  • backward analysis — (theory)   An analysis to determine properties of the inputs of a program from properties or context of the outputs. E.g. if the output of this function is needed then this argument is needed. Compare forward analysis.
  • bankruptcy estate — all of the interests that a debtor has at the start of a bankruptcy case
  • barkhausen effect — the phenomenon of short, sudden changes in the magnetism of a ferromagnetic substance occurring when the intensity of the magnetizing field is continuously altered.
  • black renaissance — a renewal and flourishing of black literary and musical culture during the years after World War I in the Harlem section of New York City.
  • blackcurrant bush — a bush of the blackcurrant plant
  • blackout curtains — thick, lined curtains designed to shut out all daylight and keep a room in complete darkness
  • breakdown service — a service that provides assistance to motorists who break down
  • bricks and clicks — a combination of traditional business carried out on physical premises and internet trading
  • bricks and mortar — You can use bricks and mortar to refer to houses and other buildings, especially when they are considered as an investment.
  • cardinal grosbeak — any of various mostly tropical American buntings, such as the cardinal and pyrrhuloxia, the males of which have brightly coloured plumage
  • cardiogenic shock — a type of shock caused by decreased cardiac output despite adequate blood volume, owing to a disease of the heart itself, as myocardial infarction, or any other factor that interferes with the filling or emptying of the heart.
  • chinese artichoke — a hairy plant, Stachys affinis, of China and Japan, having numerous small, white, edible tubers.
  • chinese turkestan — the E part of the central Asian region of Turkestan: corresponds generally to the present-day Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China
  • clicks and mortar — making use of traditional trading methods in conjunction with internet trading
  • clicks-and-mortar — pertaining to or denoting a company that does business on the Internet and in traditional stores or offices.
  • cook island māori — a dialect of Māori spoken in the Cook Islands
  • coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
  • crew-neck sweater — a sweater with a crew neck
  • egyptian brackets — (programming, humour)   A humourous term for K&R indent style, referring to the "one hand up in front, one down behind" pose which popular culture inexplicably associates with Egypt.
  • hammer and sickle — the emblem of the Soviet Union, adopted in 1923 and consisting of an insignia of a hammer with its handle across the blade of a sickle and a star above.
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • key man insurance — Key man insurance is an insurance policy taken out by a small company on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss.
  • key-man assurance — an assurance policy taken out, esp by a small company, on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss
  • make conversation — If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
  • nakhon ratchasima — a city in central Thailand.
  • nicholas bourbaki — the pseudonym of a group of mainly French mathematicians that, since 1939, has been producing a monumental work on advanced mathematics, Eléments de Mathématique
  • nikita khrushchev — Nikita S(ergeyevich) [ni-kee-tuh sur-gey-uh-vich;; Russian nyi-kyee-tuh syir-gye-yuh-vyich] /nɪˈki tə sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪˈkyi tə syɪrˈgyɛ yə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1971, Russian political leader: premier of the U.S.S.R. 1958–64.
  • otto von bismarck — Otto von [ot-oh von;; German aw-toh fuh n] /ˈɒt oʊ vɒn;; German ˈɔ toʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–98, German statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire 1871–90.
  • particle kinetics — Particle kinetics is the study of the movement of particles and the forces that cause this movement.
  • pinckney's treaty — an agreement in 1795 between Spain and the U.S. by which Spain recognized the 31st parallel as the southern boundary of the U.S. and permitted free navigation of the Mississippi to American ships.
  • quarterback sneak — a play in which the quarterback charges into the middle of the line, usually immediately after receiving the ball from the center.
  • rack one's brains — to strain in mental effort, esp to remember something or to find the solution to a problem
  • second balkan war — Balkan War (def 2).
  • severance package — an amount of compensation paid by an organization to an employee who leaves because, through no fault of their own, the job to which they were appointed ceases to exist, as during rationalization, and no comparable job is available to them
  • shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
  • silk manufacturer — a person or business that is involved in the manufacture of silk thread and fabric
  • single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • social notworking — the practice of spending time unproductively on social networking websites, esp when one should be working
  • spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
  • sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
  • unofficial strike — a strike that is not approved by the strikers' trade union
  • working substance — a substance, usually a fluid, that undergoes changes in pressure, temperature, volume, or form as part of a process for accomplishing work.

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