17-letter words containing em
- contempt of court — Contempt of court is the criminal offence of disobeying an instruction from a judge or a court of law.
- 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
- country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
- credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
- creme de la creme — If you refer to someone or something as the crème de la crème, you mean they are the very best person or thing of their kind.
- creme de violette — a liqueur flavored with vanilla extract and the essential oils of violets.
- criminal contempt — any seriously disrespectful act committed against the dignity or authority of a court.
- 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.
- curie-temperature — the temperature beyond that at which a ferromagnetic substance exhibits paramagnetism.
- deduction theorem — the property of many formal systems that the conditional derived from a valid argument by taking the conjunction of the premises as antecedent and the conclusion as consequent is true
- demand management — the regulation of total spending in an economy to required levels, attempted by a government esp in order to avoid unemployment or inflation: a measure advocated by Keynesian economists
- dematerialisation — The act or process of dematerializing.
- dematerialization — The act or process of dematerializing.
- democritus junior — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
- demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
- demythologization — The act of demythologizing, or something demythologized.
- diatonic semitone — the pitch difference between certain adjacent degrees of the diatonic scale
- displacement hull — a hull that displaces a significant volume of water when under way.
- dominant tenement — land in favor of which an easement or other servitude exists over another's land.
- electrochemically — In an electrochemical manner.
- elementary school — primary school
- embroidery thread — a thread used for embroidery
- emergency landing — an occasion when a place is forced to land: for example, because of a mechanical fault, bad weather, terrorism, etc.
- 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.
- emergency service — a department within a bigger organization that deals with emergencies
- emergency session — an urgent meeting held by parliament, ministers, etc. to discuss what measures should be taken to deal with an emergency
- 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
- emissions trading — the buying and selling of allowances for pollutant emissions
- emotional baggage — burden of personal experience
- emotional capital — When people refer to the emotional capital of a company, they mean all the psychological assets and resources of the company, such as how the employees feel about the company.
- emotional cripple — someone who is unable to feel or show true emotion and so cannot form relationships with other people
- empirical formula — a chemical formula indicating the proportion of each element present in a molecule
- employee benefits — benefits, such as health insurance, pension payments, or childcare, given to employees in addition to their usual salary or wage
- employee discount — When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount, they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
- employer-provided — Employer-provided insurance is arranged or funded by the organization for which the policyholder works.
- employment agency — company: finds jobs
- employment equity — a policy or programme designed to reserve jobs for people formerly disadvantaged under apartheid
- employment office — any of a number of government offices established to collect and supply to the unemployed information about job vacancies and to employers information about availability of prospective workers
- empty element tag — tag
- enforcement order — an order by a court to force a person or organization to comply with a regulation or law
- epidemiologically — With regard to epidemiology.
- epistemologically — In a manner that pertains to epistemology.
- essential element — any chemical element required by an organism for healthy growth. It may be required in large amounts (macronutrient) or in very small amounts (trace element)
- excess employment — excessive numbers of employees for the amount of work available
- exemplary damages — law: fine imposed as a deterrent
- exhaust emissions — Exhaust emissions are substances that come out of an exhaust system into the atmosphere.
- eyelet embroidery — a piece of embroidery decorated with such work
- female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.