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17-letter words containing a, s, h, o, u, l

  • john of salisbury — c1115–80, English prelate and scholar.
  • l'hospital's rule — the theorem that for the quotient of two functions satisfying certain conditions on a given closed interval, each having infinite limit or zero as limit at a given point, the limit of the quotient at the given point is equal to the limit of the quotient of the derivatives of each function.
  • lady of the house — the female head of a household (usually preceded by the).
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • laurent's theorem — the theorem that a function that is analytic on an annulus can be represented by a Laurent series on the annulus.
  • leizhou peninsula — a peninsula of SE China, in SW Guangdong province, separated from Hainan Island by Hainan Strait
  • more than usually — You use more than usually to show that something shows even more of a particular quality than it normally does.
  • muscle dysmorphia — a mental disorder primarily affecting males, characterized by obsessions about a perceived lack of muscularity, leading to compulsive exercising, use of anabolic steroids, etc. Compare body dysmorphic disorder.
  • narrow-shouldered — having shoulders which do not extend very far from the neck; not broad-shouldered
  • natural harmonics — harmonics of a note produced on a stringed instrument by lightly touching an open or unstopped sounded string.
  • neo-malthusianism — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
  • nicholas bourbaki — the pseudonym of a group of mainly French mathematicians that, since 1939, has been producing a monumental work on advanced mathematics, Eléments de Mathématique
  • nuclear threshold — the point in war at which a combatant brings nuclear weapons into use
  • old south arabian — a group of four closely related Semitic languages, having a writing system and used from about the eighth to the fifth centuries b.c. in the southern part of Arabia.
  • out at the elbows — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • parker house roll — a soft dinner roll made by folding a flat disk of dough in half.
  • penalty shoot-out — In football, a penalty shoot-out is a way of deciding the result of a game that has ended in a draw. Players from each team try to score a goal in turn until one player fails to score and their team loses the game.
  • ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
  • pseudo-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • psychoeducational — designating or of psychological methods, as intelligence tests, used in evaluating learning ability
  • purple shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • russian wolfhound — borzoi.
  • school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
  • scrophulariaceous — belonging to the Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family of plants.
  • sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
  • shetland pullover — a thick woollen sweater made from Shetland wool
  • shirt-tail cousin — a distant cousin
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • socratic elenchus — the drawing out of the consequences of a position in order to show them to be contrary to some accepted position
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • south lanarkshire — a council area of S Scotland, comprising the S part of the historical county of Lanarkshire: included within Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: has uplands in the S and part of the Glasgow conurbation in the N: mainly agricultural. Administrative centre: Hamilton. Pop: 303 010 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
  • south sea islands — the islands in the S Pacific that constitute Oceania
  • southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
  • square-shouldered — having the shoulders held back, giving a straight form to the upper part of the back.
  • stannous chloride — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, SnCl 2 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly as a reducing and tinning agent, and as a mordant in dyeing with cochineal.
  • statutory holiday — a public holiday; a holiday all workers are entitled to
  • sulfurated potash — a yellowish-brown mixture consisting mainly of potassium polysulfides and potassium thiosulfate, used in treating mange.
  • technical support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • the life and soul — a person regarded as the main source of merriment and liveliness
  • the major leagues — the two main leagues of professional baseball clubs in the U.S., the National League and the American League
  • the popular press — cheap newspapers with a mass circulation; the tabloid press
  • thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
  • thiopental sodium — a barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 NaO 2 S, used as an anesthetic in surgery and, in psychiatry, for narcoanalysis and to stimulate recall of past events.
  • thiosulfuric acid — an acid, H 2 S 2 O 3 , that may be regarded as sulfuric acid with one oxygen atom replaced by sulfur.
  • thousandths-place — last in order of a series of a thousand.
  • three-course meal — A three-course meal is a meal that consists of three parts served one after the other.
  • trucial sheikdoms — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
  • ultrametamorphism — metamorphism during which the temperature of a rock exceeds its melting point.
  • welshman's button — an angler's name for a species of caddis fly, Sericostoma personatum
  • yuzhno-sakhalinsk — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on S Sakhalin Island.
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