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17-letter words containing an

  • circumstantiality — the quality of being circumstantial
  • circumstantiating — Present participle of circumstantiate.
  • civil libertarian — a person who actively supports or works for the protection or expansion of civil liberties.
  • clang association — the association made between two words because they sound similar; for example cling and ring
  • 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)
  • cloud cuckoo land — an idealized, illusory domain of imagination; cloudland: the cloud-cuckoo-land of technicolor cartoon whimsy.
  • cloud-cuckoo-land — If you say that someone is living in cloud-cuckoo-land, you are criticizing them because they think there are no problems and that things will happen exactly as they want them to, when this is obviously not the case.
  • clumber (spaniel) — a short-legged spaniel with a heavy body and a thick coat of straight, white hair marked with yellow or orange
  • 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
  • cognitive meaning — the literal meaning of something
  • colleterial gland — a paired accessory reproductive gland, present in most female insects, secreting a sticky substance that forms either the egg cases or the cement that binds the eggs to a surface
  • combe-capelle man — a skeleton of the early Upper Paleolithic Perigordian culture in France.
  • come to handgrips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • comedie francaise — the French national theatre, founded in Paris in 1680
  • comedy of manners — a comedy dealing with the way of life and foibles of a social group
  • commuter airplane — air taxi.
  • companionableness — The state or quality of being companionable.
  • company commander — the commander of a company of soldiers
  • company secretary — A company secretary is a person whose job within a company is to keep the legal affairs, accounts, and administration in order.
  • composite volcano — a large, steep volcano built up of alternating layers of lava and ash or cinders.
  • composite-volcano — a large, steep volcano built up of alternating layers of lava and ash or cinders.
  • computer language — programming language
  • congo-kordofanian — Niger-Kordofanian
  • consonant cluster — a group of consonants without an intervening vowel
  • constance garnett — Constance Black, 1862–1946, English translator from Russian.
  • construction loan — the act or fact of taking out.
  • consubstantiation — the doctrine that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists within the substance of the consecrated bread and wine
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • contraband of war — war materiel, as ammunition or weapons, which, by international law, may rightfully be intercepted and seized by either belligerent when shipped to the other one by a neutral country
  • cook island māori — a dialect of Māori spoken in the Cook Islands
  • 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
  • counterpropaganda — propaganda to offset or nullify unfriendly or enemy propaganda.
  • country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
  • court of chancery — (in the US) a court of equity
  • court-of-chancery — chancery (def 4a).
  • cream one's jeans — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
  • credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
  • creeping elegance — Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become elegant past the point of diminishing return, something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the Real World. See also creeping featurism, second-system effect, tense.
  • criminally insane — habitually criminal because of a psychological illness
  • 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.
  • cromwellian chair — an upright oaken chair, often with arms, having all pieces turned and a seat and back panel of leather or cloth attached with brass-headed nails.
  • cultural exchange — an exchange of students, artists, athletes, etc., between two countries to promote mutual understanding.
  • customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
  • 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.
  • cyanogen chloride — a colorless, volatile, poisonous liquid, CNCl, used chiefly in the synthesis of compounds containing the cyano group.
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