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17-letter words that end in t

  • connecting flight — a flight taken from an airport other than that from which the journey began, and which is taken in a different aeroplane from that used for the previous stage of the journey
  • consolidation act — an Act of Parliament resulting from the combination of two or more previous Acts of Parliament
  • conspiratorialist — a person who believes in or supports a conspiracy theory.
  • constance garnett — Constance Black, 1862–1946, English translator from Russian.
  • constitutionalist — an adherent or advocate of constitutionalism or of an existing constitution.
  • contempt of court — Contempt of court is the criminal offence of disobeying an instruction from a judge or a court of law.
  • 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.
  • continental quilt — a quilt, stuffed with down or a synthetic material and containing pockets of air, used as a bed cover in place of the top sheet and blankets
  • contraction joint — a joint between two parts of a structure, designed to compensate for the contraction to which either part may be subject.
  • conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
  • corner the market — dominate trade
  • coronal consonant — a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue against the upper front teeth, or the gum just above it
  • counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • critical constant — any of three constants associated with the critical point of a pure element or compound.
  • cross one's heart — to promise or pledge, esp by making the sign of a cross over one's heart
  • cruciate ligament — A cruciate ligament is either of a pair of ligaments that cross at the knee.
  • culture-fair test — a test, usually for intelligence, that does not put anyone taking it at a disadvantage, esp regarding material or cultural background
  • culture-free test — a test (usually for intelligence) that does not put anyone taking it at a disadvantage, for instance, as regards material or cultural background
  • cyrillic alphabet — the alphabet derived from that of the Greeks, supposedly by Saint Cyril, for the writing of Slavonic languages: now used primarily for Russian, Bulgarian, and the Serbian dialect of Serbo-Croat
  • data service unit — (communications)   (DSU or "data service unit") A device used in digital transmission for connecting a CSU (Channel Service Unit) to Data Terminal Equipment (a terminal or computer), in the same way that a modem is used for connection to an analogue medium. A DSU provides a standard interface to a user's terminal which is compatible with modems and handles such functions as signal translation, regeneration, reformatting, and timing. The transmitting portion of the DSU processeses the customers' signal into bipolar pulses suitable for transmission over the digital facility. The receiving portion of the DSU is used both to extract timing information and to regenerate mark and space information from the received bipolar signal.
  • deconstructionist — a philosophical and critical movement, starting in the 1960s and especially applied to the study of literature, that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability of language to represent reality and emphasizes that a text has no stable reference or identification because words essentially only refer to other words and therefore a reader must approach a text by eliminating any metaphysical or ethnocentric assumptions through an active role of defining meaning, sometimes by a reliance on new word construction, etymology, puns, and other word play.
  • delaney amendment — an amendment to the U. S. Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act banning the use of carcinogenic food additives, as certain artificial sweeteners and food colorings.
  • 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
  • denominationalist — One imbued with a denominational spirit.
  • development grant — a grant awarded, esp by a government, to a person or company in order to fund the development of a new product
  • dieu et mon droit — God and my right: motto of the Royal Arms of Great Britain
  • digestive biscuit — a round semisweet biscuit made from wholemeal flour
  • digital footprint — one's unique set of digital activities, actions, and communications that leave a data trace on the Internet or on a computer or other digital device and can identify the particular user or device: Our online browsing habits are part of our passive digital footprint, created without our consent or knowledge, but our active digital footprint, especially on social media, can more easily be managed. Compare footprint (def 4).
  • digital immigrant — a person who has become familiar with computers, the Internet, and other digital technology as a young adult or later in life. Compare digital native.
  • distribution cost — a cost incurred by a distributor or in the distribution of something
  • dominant tenement — land in favor of which an easement or other servitude exists over another's land.
  • double-ended bolt — a headless bolt threaded at both ends.
  • 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.
  • drink-drive limit — the maximum blood alcohol level permitted for someone driving a vehicle
  • education contact — (job)   The person at a company who should receive educational material.
  • effective current — the magnitude of an alternating current having the same heating effect as that of a given magnitude of direct current.
  • efficiency expert — a person who studies the methods, procedures, and job characteristics of a business or factory with the object of devising ways to increase the efficiency of equipment and personnel.
  • electric constant — the permittivity of free space, which has the value 8.854 187 × 10–12 farad per metre
  • 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.
  • english breakfast — An English breakfast is a breakfast consisting of cooked food such as bacon, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes. It also includes toast and tea or coffee.
  • equinoctial point — either of the two points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic
  • equivalent weight — the weight of an element or compound that will combine with or displace 8 grams of oxygen or 1.007 97 grams of hydrogen
  • error of judgment — a wrong or bad decision
  • 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)
  • establishing shot — Cinema
  • ethnomusicologist — A researcher in the field of ethnomusicology.
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