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17-letter words containing clo

  • against the clock — If you are doing something against the clock, you are doing it in a great hurry, because there is very little time.
  • at close quarters — If you do something at close quarters, you do it very near to a particular person or thing.
  • butterfly closure — an adhesive bandage resembling the shape of a butterfly's outstretched wings, used for closing minor cuts.
  • china grass cloth — grass cloth.
  • close corporation — a small private limited company
  • close parenthesis — right parenthesis
  • close punctuation — punctuation in which many commas, full stops, etc, are used
  • close the book on — to bring to a definite end
  • close the door on — rule out, exclude
  • close to the bone — If something is too close to the bone, it makes you feel uncomfortable because it is very close to the truth or to the real nature of something.
  • close to the wind — sailing as nearly as possible towards the direction from which the wind is blowing
  • close-order drill — practice in formation marching and other movements, in the carrying of arms during formal marching, and in the formal handling of arms for ceremonies and guard.
  • closed-captioning — (of a television program, film, or video) distributed with synchronized transcription of speech and written descriptions of other relevant audio elements, as for the hearing-impaired, that are visible only when the option to display them is selected. Abbreviation: CC.
  • closing-down sale — a sale held to clear stock from a shop that is ceasing to operate
  • 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.
  • cloverleaf aerial — a type of aerial, having three or four similar coplanar loops arranged symmetrically around an axis, to which in-phase signals are fed
  • cyclooctatetraene — a colorless, flammable liquid cyclic hydrocarbon, C 8 H 8 , used in organic research.
  • designer clothing — Designer clothing is fashionable or luxury clothing made by, or carrying the label of, a well-known fashion designer.
  • early closing day — a day on which most shops in a town or area close after lunch
  • epicycloidal gear — a gear of an epicyclic train
  • grandfather clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
  • grandmother clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
  • magellanic clouds — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
  • medium close shot — a shot taken fairly close to the subject, but not as close as a close-up
  • pebbleweave cloth — an irregularly textured material made from twisted yarn
  • radio alarm clock — an alarm clock which consists of a radio that can be set to play at a particular time
  • run out the clock — to maintain control of the ball in the closing minutes of a game
  • six o'clock swill — a period of heavy drinking, esp during the years when hotels had to close their bars at 6.00 p.m.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • to beat the clock — If you beat the clock, you finish doing something or succeed in doing something before the time allowed for doing it has ended.
  • too close to call — If something such as a competition or an election is too close to call, it is not possible to predict who will win because it seems likely to be won by only a very small margin.

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