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17-letter words containing s, t, o, r, m, c

  • confirmation-bias — the tendency to process and analyze information in such a way that it supports one’s preexisting ideas and convictions: Confirmation bias is a major issue when we get all our news from social media sites. Unfortunately, their experimental method was proven invalid due to confirmation bias.
  • congregationalism — a system of Christian doctrines and ecclesiastical government in which each congregation is self-governing and maintains bonds of faith with other similar local congregations
  • consequent stream — a stream the course of which was determined by the original slope of the land.
  • consignment store — a retail store that sells secondhand items on behalf of others and receives a percentage of the sales price.
  • 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.
  • contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
  • 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
  • copious free time — (jargon)   (Apple; originally from the introduction to Tom Lehrer's song "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier") Used ironically to indicate the speaker's lack of the quantity in question; a mythical schedule slot for accomplishing tasks held to be unlikely or impossible. Sometimes used to indicate that the speaker is interested in accomplishing the task, but believes that the opportunity will not arise. "I'll implement the automatic layout stuff in my copious free time." The phrase is also used for time reserved for bogus or otherwise idiotic tasks, such as implementation of bad chrome, or the stroking of suits. "I'll get back to him on that feature in my copious free time."
  • costume jewellery — Costume jewellery is jewellery made from cheap materials.
  • creature comforts — Creature comforts are the things that you need to feel comfortable in a place, for example good food and modern equipment.
  • cross-examination — to examine by questions intended to check a previous examination; examine closely or minutely.
  • 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
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • deconstructionism — The belief in, or application of, deconstruction.
  • decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
  • democritus junior — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • director of music — a person in charge of musical training and performance at an institution such as a college, especially the head bandmaster of a military band
  • domestic commerce — an interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries (foreign commerce) or between different parts of the same country (domestic commerce) trade; business.
  • douglas macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
  • elementary school — primary school
  • emergency rations — food and drink that is designated for use in an emergency: for example, in a famine, after a plane crash, when hill-walkers or mountaineers are stranded, etc.
  • emission spectrum — the continuous spectrum or pattern of bright lines or bands seen when the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a substance is passed into a spectrometer. The spectrum is characteristic of the emitting substance and the type of excitation to which it is subjected
  • first commandment — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”: first of the Ten Commandments.
  • first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
  • fractal dimension — (mathematics)   A common type of fractal dimension is the Hausdorff-Besicovich Dimension, but there are several different ways of computing fractal dimension. Fractal dimension can be calculated by taking the limit of the quotient of the log change in object size and the log change in measurement scale, as the measurement scale approaches zero. The differences come in what is exactly meant by "object size" and what is meant by "measurement scale" and how to get an average number out of many different parts of a geometrical object. Fractal dimensions quantify the static *geometry* of an object. For example, consider a straight line. Now blow up the line by a factor of two. The line is now twice as long as before. Log 2 / Log 2 = 1, corresponding to dimension 1. Consider a square. Now blow up the square by a factor of two. The square is now 4 times as large as before (i.e. 4 original squares can be placed on the original square). Log 4 / log 2 = 2, corresponding to dimension 2 for the square. Consider a snowflake curve formed by repeatedly replacing ___ with _/\_, where each of the 4 new lines is 1/3 the length of the old line. Blowing up the snowflake curve by a factor of 3 results in a snowflake curve 4 times as large (one of the old snowflake curves can be placed on each of the 4 segments _/\_). Log 4 / log 3 = 1.261... Since the dimension 1.261 is larger than the dimension 1 of the lines making up the curve, the snowflake curve is a fractal. [sci.fractals FAQ].
  • functional isomer — any of several structural isomers that have the same molecular formula but with the atoms connected in different ways and therefore falling into different functional groups.
  • gas chromatograph — a chromatograph used for the separation of volatile substances.
  • geomagnetic storm — magnetic storm.
  • haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
  • heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
  • heterochromosomes — Plural form of heterochromosome.
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • historical method — the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • immunofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or using immunofluorescence.
  • impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
  • incompressibility — The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.
  • intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
  • intersectionalism — The study of minorities within minorities, or intersections between minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination.
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • kvatro telecom as — (company)   The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
  • laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
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