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17-letter words containing s, d

  • cardiorespiratory — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and respiratory system.
  • caribou codeworks — (company)   The company which sells QTRADER. Director of Marketing: Norm Larsen <[email protected]>.
  • carlos de austria — Don [dawn] /dɔn/ (Show IPA), 1545–68, eldest son of Philip II of Spain: died during imprisonment for conspiracy against his father.
  • carolina moonseed — a twining woody vine, Cocculus carolinus, of the southeastern U.S., having inconspicuous flowers and showy, red fruit.
  • 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
  • case-study method — Also called case-study method [keys-stuhd-ee] /ˈkeɪsˈstʌd i/ (Show IPA). the teaching or elucidation of a subject or issue through analysis and discussion of actual cases, as in business education.
  • cassette recorder — A cassette recorder is a machine that is used for recording and listening to cassettes.
  • 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
  • catalina (island) — Santa Catalina (Island)
  • catch one's death — to contract a severe cold
  • caudal anesthesia — anesthesia below the pelvis, induced by injecting an anesthetic into the sacral portion of the spinal canal.
  • causality paradox — the hypothetical cause-and-effect of time travel and making changes in the past that would affect current actions.
  • centi-call second — (spelling)   No, it's centum call second.
  • chadless keypunch — (hardware)   A card punch which cut little U-shapes in punched cards, rather than punching out a circle or rectangle. The U's made a hole when folded back. One of the Jargon File's correspondents believed that the term "chad" derived from the Chadless keypunch. Obviously, if the Chadless keypunch didn't make them, then the stuff that other keypunches made had to be "chad". The assertion that the keypunch was named after its inventor is not supported by any record in US or UK patents or surname references.
  • chancery division — (in England) the Lord Chancellor's court, now a division of the High Court of Justice
  • change one's mind — to alter one's decision or opinion
  • chanson de roland — English The Song of Roland. a chanson de geste (c1100) relating Roland's brave deeds and death at Roncesvalles and Charlemagne's revenge.
  • chapter and verse — If you say that someone gives you chapter and verse on a particular subject, you are emphasizing that they tell you every detail about it.
  • character defense — a personality trait, as a habitual tendency to idealize or rationalize, that serves some unconscious defensive purpose.
  • charge d'affaires — A chargé d'affaires is a person appointed to act as head of a diplomatic mission in a foreign country while the ambassador is away.
  • charles de gaulle — Charles André Joseph Marie [chahrlz ahn-drey joh-zuh f muh-ree;; French sharl ahn-drey zhoh-zef ma-ree] /tʃɑrlz ˈɑn dreɪ ˈdʒoʊ zəf məˈri;; French ʃarl ɑ̃ˈdreɪ ʒoʊˈzɛf maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1890–1970, French general and statesman: president 1959–69.
  • charles henry dow — Charles Henry, 1851–1902, U.S. journalist and publisher: a founder of Dow Jones company.
  • charles lindbergh — Anne (Spencer) Morrow, 1906–2001, U.S. writer (wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh).
  • charles townshend — Charles, 1725–67, English politician, chancellor of the exchequer for whom the Townshend Acts are named.
  • chartered society — a society that has an official charter
  • checkable deposit — a checking account
  • chicken drumstick — a chicken leg, considered as food
  • chiltern hundreds — (in Britain) short for Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds; a nominal office that an MP applies for in order to resign his seat
  • chocolate soldier — a person who mistakenly believes that he or she is very powerful, important, or impressive
  • chord progression — movement from chord to chord
  • christmas disease — a relatively mild type of haemophilia, caused by lack of a protein (Christmas factor) implicated in the process of blood clotting
  • christmas pudding — Christmas pudding is a special pudding that is eaten at Christmas.
  • class distinction — a characteristic that is observed to differ based on social class
  • cleveland heights — city in NE Ohio: suburb of Cleveland: pop. 50,000
  • 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.
  • clipperton island — an uninhabited atoll in the E Pacific SW of Mexico, under French administration. Area: 6 sq km (2.3 sq miles)
  • close the door on — rule out, exclude
  • close to the wind — sailing as nearly as possible towards the direction from which the wind is blowing
  • 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.
  • closed-captioning — (of a television program, film, or video) distributed with synchronized transcription of speech and written descriptions of other relevant audio elements, as for the hearing-impaired, that are visible only when the option to display them is selected. Abbreviation: CC.
  • closing-down sale — a sale held to clear stock from a shop that is ceasing to operate
  • coastguard vessel — a ship used by the coastguard
  • cock of the woods — pileated woodpecker.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • come to handgrips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
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