17-letter words containing ar
- coal-tar creosote — impure phenol or carbolic acid, distinct from the creosote of wood tar.
- coarse-grain salt — salt with a much larger grain size than table salt
- coastguard vessel — a ship used by the coastguard
- 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.
- colour separation — the division of a coloured original into cyan, magenta, yellow, and black so that plates may be made for print reproduction. Separation may be achieved by electronic scanning or by photographic techniques using filters to isolate each colour
- colour subcarrier — a component of a colour television signal on which is modulated the colour or chrominance information
- columnar jointing — (in basaltic igneous rocks) a series of generally hexagonal columns formed by vertical joints as a result of contraction during cooling.
- combine harvester — A combine harvester is a large machine which is used on farms to cut, sort, and clean grain.
- come to the party — to take part or become involved
- committal hearing — (in British law) a preliminary inquiry by a magistrate to decide if there is enough evidence for a case to go to trial
- commodity markets — stock markets in which commodities are traded
- common of turbary — (in England) the legal right to cut peat for fuel on a common
- communal marriage — group marriage.
- commuter marriage — a marriage in which the partners live some distance apart most of the time, usually because of separate work commitments
- company secretary — A company secretary is a person whose job within a company is to keep the legal affairs, accounts, and administration in order.
- compartmentalised — Simple past tense and past participle of compartmentalise.
- compartmentalized — separated into several discrete areas
- compartmentalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compartmentalize.
- complementariness — forming a complement; completing.
- complementarities — Plural form of complementarity.
- complementary dna — a form of DNA artificially synthesized from a messenger RNA template and used in genetic engineering to produce gene clones
- complimentariness — The state or quality of being complimentary.
- congestion charge — Congestion charges refer to money motorists must pay in order to drive in some city centres. Congestion charges are intended to reduce traffic within those areas.
- connection charge — a charge made as soon as a caller is connected to the number dialled and which is additional to any charges calculated based on the duration of the call
- conservation area — In Britain, a conservation area is an area where birds and animals are protected.
- constance garnett — Constance Black, 1862–1946, English translator from Russian.
- consumer research — business: investigation of behaviors
- content marketing — marketing that tries to attract customers by distributing informational content potentially useful to the target audience, rather than by advertising products and services in the traditional way: content marketing through blogs and email newsletters.
- 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
- contracting party — a person, company, etc, entering into a legal contract
- control character — a character in a data stream that signals the device receiving the data to perform a particular control function, as changing the line spacing on a printer from single to double-spaced.
- cooperative party — (in Great Britain) a political party supporting the cooperative movement and linked with the Labour Party: founded in 1917
- corday (d'armont) — (Marie Anne) Charlotte1768-93; Fr. Girondist sympathizer: assassin of Marat
- corner the market — dominate trade
- coronary arteries — either of two arteries that originate in the aorta and supply the heart muscle with blood.
- counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
- cross one's heart — to promise or pledge, esp by making the sign of a cross over one's heart
- customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
- cypriot syllabary — a syllabic script in use on Cyprus in the first millennium b.c., used for the writing of Greek and of an unknown language.
- cytoarchitectonic — Of or pertaining to cytoarchitectonics (cytoarchitecture).
- dark-complexioned — (of a person) having a dark complexion
- darwinian fitness — fitness (def 3).
- darwinian-fitness — health.
- de facto standard — A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, but which nevertheless has a large market share. The archetypal example of a de facto standard is the IBM PC which, despite is many glaring technical deficiencies, has gained such a large share of the personal computer market that it is now popular simply because it is popular and therefore enjoys fierce competition in pricing and software development.
- decellularization — (biology, medicine) The loss of cells from tissue.
- defamiliarisation — (arts) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
- defamiliarization — Art, Literature. a theory and technique, originating in the early 20th century, in which an artistic or literary work presents familiar objects or situations in an unfamiliar way, prolonging the perceptive process and allowing for a fresh perspective.
- defence secretary — the member of a government who is responsible for the country's armed forces
- dendroarchaeology — (archaeology) the science that uses dendrochronology to date wooden material from archaeological sites.
- departmentalizing — Present participle of departmentalize.