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17-letter words starting with c

  • cost-plus pricing — the setting of prices at the cost price plus a percentage
  • costume jewellery — Costume jewellery is jewellery made from cheap materials.
  • council of europe — an association of European states, established in 1949 to promote unity between its members, defend human rights, and increase social and economic progress
  • count one's beads — to pray with a rosary
  • counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
  • counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
  • counter-influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
  • counter-migration — a migration in the opposite direction.
  • counter-signature — a signature added by way of countersigning.
  • counteraccusation — An accusation made in reply to another accusation.
  • counterattraction — a rival attraction
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • counterinitiative — An initiative opposing another initiative.
  • counterinsurgency — action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
  • counterirritation — (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere.
  • counteroffensives — Plural form of counteroffensive.
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • counterproductive — Something that is counterproductive achieves the opposite result from the one that you want to achieve.
  • counterpropaganda — propaganda to offset or nullify unfriendly or enemy propaganda.
  • counterrevolution — A counterrevolution is a revolution that is intended to reverse the effects of a previous revolution.
  • countersignatures — Plural form of countersignature.
  • countersubversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • counterterrorists — Plural form of counterterrorist.
  • country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
  • country of origin — the country from which a person originally comes
  • course protractor — a navigational instrument for measuring the bearing of a course as given on a chart, having a disk calibrated in degrees and an arm pivoted about the center of the disk.
  • court of chancery — (in the US) a court of equity
  • court of sessions — any of state courts of criminal jurisdiction in California, New York, and a few other states.
  • court-of-chancery — chancery (def 4a).
  • courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
  • cover your tracks — If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret.
  • cracked gas dryer — A cracked gas dryer is a piece of equipment for removing water vapor from natural gas, for example, using adsorbers and membranes.
  • cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • cream of the crop — the best of a group
  • cream one's jeans — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
  • creature comforts — Creature comforts are the things that you need to feel comfortable in a place, for example good food and modern equipment.
  • creature of habit — If you say that someone is a creature of habit, you mean that they usually do the same thing at the same time each day, rather than doing new and different things.
  • credit facilities — a type of loan made by a bank
  • credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
  • creeping elegance — Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become elegant past the point of diminishing return, something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the Real World. See also creeping featurism, second-system effect, tense.
  • creeping eruption — a skin eruption with intense itching, caused by the burrowing of various larvae under the skin
  • 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.
  • crew-neck sweater — a sweater with a crew neck
  • criminal contempt — any seriously disrespectful act committed against the dignity or authority of a court.
  • criminally insane — habitually criminal because of a psychological illness
  • 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.
  • critical constant — any of three constants associated with the critical point of a pure element or compound.
  • critical pressure — the pressure of a gas or the saturated vapour pressure of a substance in its critical state
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