18-letter words containing cou
- non-accountability — the state of being accountable, liable, or answerable.
- nonintercourse act — the act of Congress (1809) prohibiting all shipping and trade between the United States and British- or French-controlled ports.
- orientation course — induction into sth
- par for the course — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- provincial council — (formerly) a council administering any of the New Zealand provinces
- reference counting — (programming) A garbage collection technique where each memory cell contains a count of the number of other cells which point to it. If this count reaches zero the cell is freed and its pointers to other cells are followed to decrement their counts, and so on recursively. This technique cannot cope with circular data structures. Cells in such structures refer (indirectly) to themselves and so will never have a zero reference count. This means they would never be reclaimed, even when there are no references from outside the structure.
- revolution counter — a device for counting or recording the number of revolutions made by a rotating shaft, as of a motor or engine.
- sexual intercourse — genital contact, especially the insertion of the penis into the vagina followed by orgasm; coitus; copulation.
- six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
- small claims court — a special court established to handle small claims or debts, usually without the services of lawyers.
- small-claims court — a special court established to handle small claims or debts, usually without the services of lawyers.
- student councillor — a student who is a member of a council or body representing the interests of students at a school, university or college
- universal coupling — a coupling between rotating shafts set at an angle to one another, allowing for rotation in three planes.