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17-letter words containing s, t, a, r, c

  • consumer advocate — consumerist (def 1).
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • consumer-advocate — Also called consumer advocate. a person who is dedicated to protecting and promoting the welfare and rights of consumers.
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • continental crust — that part of the earth's crust that underlies the continents and continental shelves
  • contradictoriness — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
  • contradistinction — a distinction made by contrasting different qualities
  • contradistinctive — distinction by opposition or contrast: plants and animals in contradistinction to humans.
  • contradistinguish — to differentiate by means of contrasting or opposing qualities
  • contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
  • contraindications — Plural form of contraindication.
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
  • controversialness — The state or quality of being controversial.
  • conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
  • cooperative store — a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.
  • coordinate clause — one of two or more clauses in a sentence having the same status and introduced by coordinating conjunctions
  • coordinate system — a system of coordinates that uses numbers to represent a point, line, or the like.
  • copernican system — the theory published in 1543 by Copernicus which stated that the earth and the planets rotated around the sun and which opposed the Ptolemaic system
  • coronal consonant — a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue against the upper front teeth, or the gum just above it
  • coronary arteries — either of two arteries that originate in the aorta and supply the heart muscle with blood.
  • corporate sponsor — a business that sponsors a particular type of event
  • counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
  • counter-signature — a signature added by way of countersigning.
  • counteraccusation — An accusation made in reply to another accusation.
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • countersignatures — Plural form of countersignature.
  • course protractor — a navigational instrument for measuring the bearing of a course as given on a chart, having a disk calibrated in degrees and an arm pivoted about the center of the disk.
  • courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
  • cover your tracks — If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret.
  • 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.
  • creature comforts — Creature comforts are the things that you need to feel comfortable in a place, for example good food and modern equipment.
  • credit facilities — a type of loan made by a bank
  • crew-neck sweater — a sweater with a crew neck
  • crisis management — People use crisis management to refer to a management style that concentrates on solving the immediate problems occurring in a business rather than looking for long-term solutions.
  • critical constant — any of three constants associated with the critical point of a pure element or compound.
  • critical pressure — the pressure of a gas or the saturated vapour pressure of a substance in its critical state
  • cross one's heart — to promise or pledge, esp by making the sign of a cross over one's heart
  • cross-correlation — the correlation between two sequences of random variables in a time series
  • cross-examination — to examine by questions intended to check a previous examination; examine closely or minutely.
  • cross-lot bracing — bracing extending from one side of an excavation to the opposite to retain the earth on both sides.
  • cross-pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another flower by the action of wind, insects, etc
  • cross-utilization — to make use of in an additional or different way.
  • cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cryptocrystalline — (of rocks) composed of crystals that can be distinguished individually only by the use of a polarizing microscope
  • culture-fair test — a test, usually for intelligence, that does not put anyone taking it at a disadvantage, esp regarding material or cultural background
  • customs brokerage — the work of a customs broker
  • customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
  • cut a person dead — to ignore a person completely
  • cutaneous quittor — a purulent infection of horses and other hoofed animals, characterized by an acute inflammation of soft tissue above the hoof and resulting in suppuration and sloughing of the skin and usually lameness.
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