17-letter words containing ge
- cardiogenic shock — a type of shock caused by decreased cardiac output despite adequate blood volume, owing to a disease of the heart itself, as myocardial infarction, or any other factor that interferes with the filling or emptying of the heart.
- caretaker manager — a person who temporarily holds the office of manager of a football club
- change management — Change management is a style of management that aims to encourage organizations and individuals to deal effectively with the changes taking place in their work.
- change one's mind — to alter one's decision or opinion
- change one's tune — to alter one's attitude or tone of speech
- change the sheets — If you change the sheets on a bed, you take the used sheets off the bed and put on different ones.
- charge d'affaires — A chargé d'affaires is a person appointed to act as head of a diplomatic mission in a foreign country while the ambassador is away.
- choanoflagellates — Plural form of choanoflagellate.
- chronological age — the number of years a person has lived, especially when used as a standard against which to measure behavior, intelligence, etc.
- classical college — (in Quebec) a college offering a programme that emphasizes the classics and leads to university entrance
- collateral damage — Collateral damage is accidental injury to non-military people or damage to non-military buildings which occurs during a military operation.
- collection agency — A collection agency is an organization that obtains payments from people who owe money to others.
- college professor — a lecturer or researcher who works in a college
- commercial agency — a concern that investigates for the benefit of its subscribers the financial standing, reputation, and credit rating of individuals, firms, corporations, or others.
- communal marriage — group marriage.
- community college — A community college is a local college where students from the surrounding area can take courses in practical or academic subjects.
- commuter marriage — a marriage in which the partners live some distance apart most of the time, usually because of separate work commitments
- computer language — programming language
- 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
- consensus gentium — agreement of the people.
- consulate general — the office or residence of a consul general
- contingency table — an array having the frequency of occurrence of certain events in each of a number of samples
- contingent worker — a temporary or contract worker, especially one hired for one task or project.
- contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
- controlling image — a literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol.
- converged network — (networking) A single network that can carry voice, video and data.
- corporate village — an area close to the workplace where many everyday facilities are provided for a company's workers
- counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
- counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
- counterinsurgency — action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
- country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
- 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.
- cultural exchange — an exchange of students, artists, athletes, etc., between two countries to promote mutual understanding.
- customs brokerage — the work of a customs broker
- cyanogen chloride — a colorless, volatile, poisonous liquid, CNCl, used chiefly in the synthesis of compounds containing the cyano group.
- dagestan republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- damage limitation — Damage limitation is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- dangerous driving — the act of driving a motor vehicle in a manner that falls far below that expected of a competent and careful driver and hence puts the life of the driver and the lives of other road users at risk
- daughter language — a language that has evolved from another specified language.
- debrett's peerage — a list of the British aristocracy
- degenerate matter — the highly compressed state of matter, esp in white dwarfs and neutron stars, supported against gravitational collapse by quantum mechanical effects
- 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
- dialect geography — linguistic geography
- differential gear — differential (def 7).
- digestive biscuit — a round semisweet biscuit made from wholemeal flour
- disadvantagedness — The quality of being disadvantaged.
- disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
- dog in the manger — a person who selfishly keeps something that he or she does not really need or want so that others may not use or enjoy it.
- douglas engelbart — (person) Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. On 1968-12-09, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, USA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the on live system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking and shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. The original 90-minute video: Hyperlinks, Mouse, Web-board.