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17-letter words containing r, o, t, u, n

  • blowout preventer — A blowout preventer is a valve that can be closed when there is uncontrolled flow of fluids.
  • blue dot syndrome — (graphics, jargon)   The inability to display an image file or text embedded in an image file on your monitor.
  • bluegrass country — region in central Ky. where there is much bluegrass
  • bow street runner — (in Britain from 1749 to 1829) an officer at Bow Street magistrates' court, London, whose duty was to pursue and arrest criminals
  • bowel obstruction — a blockage in the bowel
  • british columbian — of or relating to British Columbia or its inhabitants
  • brokerage account — A brokerage account is an account with a broker where an investor can buy and sell and hold securities.
  • budget resolution — a resolution adopted by both houses of the U.S. Congress setting forth, reaffirming, or revising the budget for the U.S. government for a fiscal year.
  • budgetary control — a system of managing a business by applying a financial value to each forecast activity. Actual performance is subsequently compared with the estimates
  • buncher resonator — See under Klystron.
  • bureaucratization — to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
  • burton-upon-trent — a town in W central England, in E Staffordshire: famous for brewing. Pop: 43 784 (2001)
  • buyers' inflation — inflation in which rising demand results in a rise in prices.
  • by return of post — by the next mail in the opposite direction
  • calcium carbonate — a white crystalline salt occurring in limestone, chalk, marble, calcite, coral, and pearl: used in the production of lime and cement. Formula: CaCO3
  • california nutmeg — a tall, pungently aromatic California evergreen tree, Torreya californica, of the yew family, having a fissured, gray-brown bark and small, purple-streaked, green fruit.
  • cape horn current — the part of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current flowing E at Cape Horn.
  • cariboo mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 3520 m (11 549 ft)
  • cartesian product — the set of all ordered pairs of members of two given sets. The product A × B is the set of all pairs <a, b> where a is a member of A and b is a member of B
  • cast/run your eye — If you cast your eye or run your eye over something, you look at it or read it quickly.
  • castor and pollux — the twin sons of Leda: Pollux was fathered by Zeus, Castor by the mortal Tyndareus. After Castor's death, Pollux spent half his days with his half-brother in Hades and half with the gods in Olympus
  • cellulose nitrate — a compound made by treating cellulose with nitric and sulphuric acids, used in plastics, lacquers, and explosives: a nitrogen-containing ester of cellulose
  • centrifugal force — In physics, centrifugal force is the force that makes objects move outwards when they are spinning around something or travelling in a curve.
  • chart of accounts — A chart of accounts is a list of all the accounts used in a business to classify transactions or report balances.
  • circular function — trigonometric function (def 1).
  • circumlocutionary — a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
  • clairaut equation — a differential equation of the form y = xy prime; + f (y prime;).
  • club subscription — an amount of money that someone pays regularly in order to belong to a club
  • 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 supplement — A colour supplement is a colour magazine which is one of the sections of a newspaper, especially at weekends.
  • colour television — television that broadcasts in real-life colours, as opposed to black and white
  • columnar jointing — (in basaltic igneous rocks) a series of generally hexagonal columns formed by vertical joints as a result of contraction during cooling.
  • common of turbary — (in England) the legal right to cut peat for fuel on a common
  • community service — Community service is unpaid work that criminals sometimes do as a punishment instead of being sent to prison.
  • commuter airplane — air taxi.
  • 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.
  • computer confetti — (jargon)   (Or "chad") A common term for punched-card chad, which, however, does not make good confetti, as the pieces are stiff and have sharp corners that could injure the eyes.
  • computer language — programming language
  • computer printout — a document that is printed from a computer file
  • computer terminal — a keyboard and computer monitor connected to a computer
  • 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.
  • concurrent oberon — (language)   A concurrent version of Oberon. There is an implementation the Ceres workstation.
  • concurrent pascal — (language)   An extension of a Pascal subset, Sequential Pascal, developed by Brinch Hansen in 1972-75. Concurrent Pascal was the first language to support monitors. It provided access to hardware devices through monitor calls and also supported processes and classes.
  • concurrent prolog — (language)   A Prolog variant with guarded clauses and committed-choice nondeterminism (don't-care nondeterminism) by Ehud "Udi" Shapiro, Yale <[email protected]>. A subset has been implemented, but not the full language. See also Mandala.
  • concurrent scheme — (language)   A parallel Lisp, for the Mayfly by M. Swanson .
  • configurationally — With regard to a configuration.
  • consequent stream — a stream the course of which was determined by the original slope of the land.
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