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17-letter words containing b, a, c, i, l

  • disability clause — a clause in a life-insurance policy providing for waiver of premium and sometimes payment of monthly income if the policyholder becomes totally and permanently disabled.
  • discreditableness — Quality of being discreditable.
  • discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
  • disposable income — the part of a person's income remaining after deducting personal income taxes.
  • disrespectability — Lack of respectability.
  • double refraction — the separation of a ray of light into two unequally refracted, plane-polarized rays of orthogonal polarizations, occurring in crystals in which the velocity of light rays is not the same in all directions.
  • double track line — a railway line with double track
  • economic blockade — an embargo on trade with a country, esp one which prohibits receipt of exports from that country, with the intention of disrupting the country's economy
  • electricity board — a company which supplies electricity
  • fiddleback spider — brown recluse spider.
  • flowering tobacco — any plant belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, as N. alata and N. sylvestris, having clusters of fragrant flowers that usually bloom at night, grown as an ornamental.
  • fluid lubrication — lubrication in which bearing surfaces are separated by an oil film sustained by the motion of the parts
  • fulgencio batista — Fulgencio [fool-hen-syaw] /fulˈhɛn syɔ/ (Show IPA), (Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar) 1901–73, Cuban military leader: dictator of Cuba 1934–40; president 1940–44, 1952–59.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • hyperbolic spiral — rθ = a, (where a is a constant)
  • hyperexcitability — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
  • impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
  • incommunicability — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
  • incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • inconceivableness — The quality of being inconceivable.
  • indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
  • indescribableness — The quality of being indescribable.
  • instance variable — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, one of the variables of a class template which may have a different value for each object of that class. Instance variables hold the state of an object.
  • invincible armada — Armada.
  • invisible balance — the difference in value between total exports of services plus payment of property incomes from abroad and total imports of services plus payment abroad of property incomes
  • irreconcilability — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
  • irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
  • joachim du bellay — Joachim [French zhaw-a-keem] /French ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), Bellay, Joachim du.
  • karelian republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia between the White Sea and Lakes Onega and Ladoga. Capital: Petrozavodsk. Pop: 716 700 (2002). Area: 172 400 sq km (66 560 sq miles)
  • ladder-back chair — a chair with a back of two upright posts connected by horizontal slats
  • lautenclavicymbal — a harpsichord with strings of gut rather than metal.
  • lead acid battery — A lead acid battery is a 12-volt battery for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles consisting of lead-acid cells in series.
  • liability account — A liability account is an account recording a company's liabilities.
  • liberal democracy — a democracy based on the recognition of individual rights and freedoms, in which decisions from direct or representative processes prevail in many policy areas
  • liberal democrats — (in Britain) a political party with centrist policies; established in 1988 as the Social and Liberal Democrats when the Liberal Party merged with the Social Democratic Party; renamed Liberal Democrats in 1989
  • liberal education — an education based primarily on the liberal arts, emphasizing the development of intellectual abilities as opposed to the acquisition of professional skills.
  • librocubicularist — (rare) A person who reads in bed.
  • ligurian republic — the republic in NW Italy set up by Napoleon in 1797, incorporated into France in 1805, and united with the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1814.
  • lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
  • little black book — an address book, esp. one kept by a man, with the names of women companions considered available for dating
  • lombrosian school — a school of criminology, promulgating the theories and employing the methods developed by Lombroso.
  • malagasy republic — former name of Madagascar.
  • manufacturability — The condition of being manufacturable.
  • medical librarian — a person who works in a library of medical information kept for reference in a teaching hospital
  • metabolic pathway — biochemistry: sequence of reactions within a cell or organism
  • michigan bankroll — a large roll of paper money in small denominations.
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