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17-letter words containing l, a, r

  • collaborativeness — Quality of being collaborative.
  • collateral damage — Collateral damage is accidental injury to non-military people or damage to non-military buildings which occurs during a military operation.
  • collateralization — The act or process of collateralizing.
  • collegiate church — a church that has an endowed chapter of canons and prebendaries attached to it but that is not a cathedral
  • colleterial gland — a paired accessory reproductive gland, present in most female insects, secreting a sticky substance that forms either the egg cases or the cement that binds the eggs to a surface
  • color temperature — a temperature defined in terms of the temperature of a black body at which it emits light of a specified spectral distribution: used to specify the color of a light source.
  • color-coordinated — with all parts or elements related, blended, or matched to a particular color scheme.
  • colour photograph — a photograph that is developed and printed in colour
  • colour separation — the division of a coloured original into cyan, magenta, yellow, and black so that plates may be made for print reproduction. Separation may be achieved by electronic scanning or by photographic techniques using filters to isolate each colour
  • colour subcarrier — a component of a colour television signal on which is modulated the colour or chrominance information
  • columnar jointing — (in basaltic igneous rocks) a series of generally hexagonal columns formed by vertical joints as a result of contraction during cooling.
  • combinatory logic — (logic)   A system for reducing the operational notation of logic, mathematics or a functional language to a sequence of modifications to the input data structure. First introduced in the 1920's by Schoenfinkel. Re-introduced independently by Haskell Curry in the late 1920's (who quickly learned of Schoenfinkel's work after he had the idea). Curry is really responsible for most of the development, at least up until work with Feys in 1958. See combinator.
  • 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.
  • commercial credit — credit issued by a bank to a business to finance trading or manufacturing operations.
  • commercialisation — Alternative spelling of commercialization.
  • commercialization — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
  • committal hearing — (in British law) a preliminary inquiry by a magistrate to decide if there is enough evidence for a case to go to trial
  • communal marriage — group marriage.
  • commuter airplane — air taxi.
  • compartmentalised — Simple past tense and past participle of compartmentalise.
  • compartmentalized — separated into several discrete areas
  • compartmentalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compartmentalize.
  • complementariness — forming a complement; completing.
  • complementarities — Plural form of complementarity.
  • complementary dna — a form of DNA artificially synthesized from a messenger RNA template and used in genetic engineering to produce gene clones
  • complete fracture — a bone fracture in which the bone is split completely across.
  • complimentariness — The state or quality of being complimentary.
  • compound interval — an interval that is greater than an octave, as a ninth or a thirteenth.
  • computer language — programming language
  • computer literacy — basic, nontechnical knowledge about computers and how to use them; familiarity and experience with computers, software, and computer systems.
  • computer literate — basic, nontechnical knowledge about computers and how to use them; familiarity and experience with computers, software, and computer systems.
  • computer terminal — a keyboard and computer monitor connected to a computer
  • computer-literate — If someone is computer-literate, they have enough skill and knowledge to be able to use a computer.
  • concurrent pascal — (language)   An extension of a Pascal subset, Sequential Pascal, developed by Brinch Hansen in 1972-75. Concurrent Pascal was the first language to support monitors. It provided access to hardware devices through monitor calls and also supported processes and classes.
  • configurationally — With regard to a configuration.
  • confrontationally — In a confrontational way.
  • congo-brazzaville — a republic in W Central Africa: formerly the French colony of Middle Congo, part of French Equatorial Africa, it became independent in 1960; consists mostly of equatorial forest, with savanna and extensive swamps; drained chiefly by the Rivers Congo and Ubangi. Official language: French. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: franc. Capital: Brazzaville. Pop: 4 492 689 (2013 est). Area: 342 000 sq km (132 018 sq miles)
  • congregationalism — a system of Christian doctrines and ecclesiastical government in which each congregation is self-governing and maintains bonds of faith with other similar local congregations
  • congregationalist — a form of Protestant church government in which each local religious society is independent and self-governing.
  • consolation prize — A consolation prize is a small prize which is given to a person who fails to win a competition.
  • consonant cluster — a group of consonants without an intervening vowel
  • conspiratorialist — a person who believes in or supports a conspiracy theory.
  • construction loan — the act or fact of taking out.
  • consulate general — the office or residence of a consul general
  • consumer sampling — a research technique in which targeted consumers are polled or tested for their receptiveness to a product or service
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • continental crust — that part of the earth's crust that underlies the continents and continental shelves
  • continental drift — Continental drift is the slow movement of the Earth's continents towards and away from each other.
  • contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
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