17-letter words containing on
- class distinction — a characteristic that is observed to differ based on social class
- clifden nonpareil — a handsome nocturnal moth, Catocala fraxini, that is brown with bluish patches on the hindwings: related to the red underwing
- clipperton island — an uninhabited atoll in the E Pacific SW of Mexico, under French administration. Area: 6 sq km (2.3 sq miles)
- close corporation — a small private limited company
- close punctuation — punctuation in which many commas, full stops, etc, are used
- close the book on — to bring to a definite end
- close the door on — rule out, exclude
- close to the bone — If something is too close to the bone, it makes you feel uncomfortable because it is very close to the truth or to the real nature of something.
- closed-captioning — (of a television program, film, or video) distributed with synchronized transcription of speech and written descriptions of other relevant audio elements, as for the hearing-impaired, that are visible only when the option to display them is selected. Abbreviation: CC.
- club subscription — an amount of money that someone pays regularly in order to belong to a club
- cohesionless soil — any free-running type of soil, such as sand or gravel, whose strength depends on friction between particles
- collateralization — The act or process of collateralizing.
- collected edition — a comprehensive edition of the writings of a particular author.
- collection agency — A collection agency is an organization that obtains payments from people who owe money to others.
- collision density — the rate at which collisions are occurring per unit volume per unit time, usually pertaining to the collisions of neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
- collodion process — wet plate process.
- colloquialization — The process or result of making colloquial.
- 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 television — television that broadcasts in real-life colours, as opposed to black and white
- combustion engine — any of various types of engines driven by energy produced by combustion.
- comity of nations — the friendly recognition accorded by one nation to the laws and usages of another
- commercialisation — Alternative spelling of commercialization.
- commercialization — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- common difference — the positive or negative constant added to each term in an arithmetic progression
- common of turbary — (in England) the legal right to cut peat for fuel on a common
- common storksbill — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, having pink or reddish-purple flowers and fruits with a beaklike process
- communication gap — a lack of communication
- communion service — the Christian ceremony in which people eat bread and drink wine in memory of Christ's death
- companionableness — The state or quality of being companionable.
- compass deviation — deviation (def 4).
- compassionateness — The state or quality of being compassionate.
- compilation album — a musical recording consisting of works chosen for a particular purpose or theme
- complex conjugate — the complex number whose imaginary part is the negative of that of a given complex number, the real parts of both numbers being equal
- complex-conjugate — one of a group of conjugate words.
- compound fraction — complex fraction
- compression ratio — the ratio of the volume enclosed by the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine at the beginning of the compression stroke to the volume enclosed at the end of it
- computer confetti — (jargon) (Or "chad") A common term for punched-card chad, which, however, does not make good confetti, as the pieces are stiff and have sharp corners that could injure the eyes.
- conceptualisation — The act of conceptualising, or something conceptualised.
- conceptualization — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- concertmistresses — Plural form of concertmistress.
- concessive clause — A concessive clause is a subordinate clause which refers to a situation that contrasts with the one described in the main clause. For example, in the sentence 'Although he was tired, he couldn't get to sleep', the first clause is a concessive clause.
- concurrent euclid — (language, parallel) A concurrent extension of a subset of Euclid ("Simple Euclid") developed by J.R. Cordy and R.C. Holt of the University of Toronto in 1980. Concurrent Euclid features separate compilation, modules, processes and monitors, signal and wait on condition variables, 'converters' to defeat strong type checking, absolute addresses. All procedures and functions are re-entrant. TUNIS (a Unix-like operating system) is written in Concurrent Euclid.
- concurrent oberon — (language) A concurrent version of Oberon. There is an implementation the Ceres workstation.
- 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.
- concurrent prolog — (language) A Prolog variant with guarded clauses and committed-choice nondeterminism (don't-care nondeterminism) by Ehud "Udi" Shapiro, Yale <[email protected]>. A subset has been implemented, but not the full language. See also Mandala.
- concurrent scheme — (language) A parallel Lisp, for the Mayfly by M. Swanson
- condensing boiler — an energy-efficient boiler that makes use of what would otherwise be waste heat
- condescendingness — The state or quality of being condescending.
- conference centre — a large venue designed for conferences often consisting of a large hall as well as a number of smaller lecture rooms and other facilities
- configurationally — With regard to a configuration.