17-letter words containing s, e, c, y
- absolute monarchy — a monarchy without constitutional limits
- abstinence theory — the theory that interest is payment for conserving current income.
- acanthopterygians — Plural form of acanthopterygian.
- accessory mineral — See at accessory (def 7).
- accessory pigment — any pigment in plants that can absorb light energy and pass the electrons along to the primary pigment which starts the process of photosynthesis.
- accounting system — the way in which a company keeps its accounts
- adenylate cyclase — an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of ATP to cyclic AMP.
- amoebic dysentery — inflammation of the intestines caused by the parasitic amoeba Endamoeba histolytica
- anti-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- api gravity scale — the American Petroleum Institute gravity scale: a universally accepted scale of the relative density of fluids that is used in fuel technology and is measured in degrees API. One degree API is equal to (141.5/d)–131.5, where d = relative density at 288.7K
- armaments factory — a factory for producing armaments
- ashby-de-la-zouch — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned (1569) in the castle. Pop: 11 409 (2001)
- assembly district — one of a fixed number of districts into which a state is divided, each district electing one member to the lower house of the state legislature.
- associative array — (programming) (Or "hash", "map", "dictionary") An array where the indices are not just integers but may be arbitrary strings.
- astronomical year — year (def 4b).
- asymmetrical bars — a set of parallel bars, having one bar fixed at 230 cm (7 ft, 6 in) and the other at 150 cm (4 ft, 11 in), used by women gymnasts
- attorneys-in-fact — a person authorized by power of attorney to act on the authorizer's behalf outside a court of law.
- bankruptcy estate — all of the interests that a debtor has at the start of a bankruptcy case
- base rate fallacy — the tendency, when making judgments of the probability with which an event will occur, to ignore the base rate and to concentrate on other information
- beauty specialist — a person who helps someone to improve their beauty, such as a make-up artist
- beyond comparison — outstanding, without equal
- bicycle motocross — a bicycle race over a rough cross-country course, usually consisting of jumps, obstacles, and turns. Abbreviation: BMX.
- bird's-eye chilli — a small red hot-tasting chilli
- bluegrass country — region in central Ky. where there is much bluegrass
- branch delay slot — delayed control-transfer
- butterfly closure — an adhesive bandage resembling the shape of a butterfly's outstretched wings, used for closing minor cuts.
- cache consistency — cache coherency
- calf's-foot jelly — a jelly made from the stock of boiled calves' feet and flavourings, formerly often served to invalids
- campus university — a university in which the buildings, often including shops and cafés, are all on one site
- cardiac glycoside — any of a group of drugs used to stimulate the heart in cases of heart failure, obtained from a number of plants, as the foxglove, squill, or yellow oleander.
- cardiorespiratory — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and respiratory system.
- 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.
- cast/run your eye — If you cast your eye or run your eye over something, you look at it or read it quickly.
- 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
- charles henry dow — Charles Henry, 1851–1902, U.S. journalist and publisher: a founder of Dow Jones company.
- chartered society — a society that has an official charter
- cholecystectomies — Plural form of cholecystectomy.
- circumscriptively — In a circumscriptive manner.
- classless society — a society in which class distinctions are negligible or absent
- 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.
- colloid chemistry — the study of colloids.
- comedy of manners — a comedy dealing with the way of life and foibles of a social group
- commodity markets — stock markets in which commodities are traded
- community service — Community service is unpaid work that criminals sometimes do as a punishment instead of being sent to prison.
- company secretary — A company secretary is a person whose job within a company is to keep the legal affairs, accounts, and administration in order.
- comprehensibility — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- computer security — security
- conspiracy theory — A conspiracy theory is a belief that a group of people are secretly trying to harm someone or achieve something. You usually use this term to suggest that you think this is unlikely.
- contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
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