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17-letter words containing a, n, t, h, o, l

  • clinicopathologic — of or relating to the combined study of disease symptoms and pathology.
  • close parenthesis — right parenthesis
  • coin of the realm — legal tender.
  • 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
  • continental shelf — The continental shelf is the area which forms the edge of a continent, ending in a steep slope to the depths of the ocean.
  • control character — a character in a data stream that signals the device receiving the data to perform a particular control function, as changing the line spacing on a printer from single to double-spaced.
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • dehospitalization — hospitalization insurance.
  • dehydrochlorinate — to remove hydrogen chloride or chlorine and hydrogen from (a substance).
  • demythologization — The act of demythologizing, or something demythologized.
  • denatured alcohol — ethanol rendered unfit for human consumption by the addition of a noxious substance, as in methylated spirits
  • dephlogisticating — Present participle of dephlogisticate.
  • dephosphorylation — the removal of a phosphate group from an organic compound, as in the changing of ATP to ADP.
  • diacetone alcohol — a colorless, flammable liquid with a pleasant odor, C 6 H 12 O 2 : used as a solvent for lacquers, dyes, cellulose nitrate, and resins.
  • diphenylhydantoin — a white, slightly water-soluble powder, C 15 H 11 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its sodium salt to prevent or arrest convulsions in epilepsy.
  • down-at-the-heels — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • echo cancellation — A process which removes unwanted echoes from the signal on a telephone line. Echoes are usually caused by impedance mismatches along an analogue line.
  • ehelp corporation — (company)   A vendor of Microsoft Windows application development tools such as RoboHELP and RoboDemo. EHelp were formerly (around 1997) Blue Sky Software. Address: 7777 Fay Avenue, Suite 201, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Telephone: +1-800-793-0364, +1 (619) 459 6365. Fax: +1 (619) 459 6366.
  • electroanesthesia — Anesthesia induced by cranial electrotherapy stimulation.
  • electromechanical — Of, relating to, or denoting a mechanical device that is electrically operated.
  • elementary school — primary school
  • encephalomyelitic — Relating to encephalomyelitis.
  • encephalomyelitis — Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically due to acute viral infection.
  • epithelialization — (biology) the process that covers a wound with epithelial tissue.
  • establishing shot — Cinema
  • ethinyloestradiol — Alternative form of ethinylestradiol.
  • ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
  • exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
  • exceptional child — a gifted child
  • falling diphthong — a diphthong in which the first of the two apparent vocalic elements is of greater stress or sonority and the second is of lesser stress or sonority, as in (ī), (ou), (oi), etc.
  • fear and loathing — (Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous - Intel 8086s, COBOL, EBCDIC, or any IBM machine except the Rios (also known as the RS/6000).
  • fifth normal form — database normalisation
  • first call on sth — If you have first call on something, you will be asked before anyone else whether you want to buy or use it.
  • football hooligan — a noisy violent football supporter
  • fort walton beach — a city in NW Florida.
  • functional change — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
  • generalized other — an individual's internalized impression of societal norms and expectations.
  • genetic algorithm — (GA) An evolutionary algorithm which generates each individual from some encoded form known as a "chromosome" or "genome". Chromosomes are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. "Crossover", the kind of recombination of chromosomes found in sexual reproduction in nature, is often also used in GAs. Here, an offspring's chromosome is created by joining segments choosen alternately from each of two parents' chromosomes which are of fixed length. GAs are useful for multidimensional optimisation problems in which the chromosome can encode the values for the different variables being optimised.
  • geothermal energy — Geothermal energy is energy from temperature differences inside the earth's crust.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • grandfather clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
  • grandmother clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
  • ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
  • haemagglutination — Alternative form of hemagglutination.
  • haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
  • haemoglobinometer — an instrument used to determine the haemoglobin content of blood
  • haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
  • haitian solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Solenodon paradoxus, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
  • hamiltonian cycle — Hamiltonian problem
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