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17-letter words containing c, a, l, h

  • physical activity — sth involving use of the body
  • physical exercise — movements and activities done to keep your body healthy or make it stronger
  • physical handicap — loss of or failure to develop a specific bodily function or functions, whether of movement, sensation, coordination, or speech, but excluding mental impairments or disabilities
  • physical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury by means of physical agents, as manipulation, massage, exercise, heat, or water.
  • physical pendulum — any apparatus consisting of a body of possibly irregular shape allowed to rotate freely about a horizontal axis on which it is pivoted (distinguished from simple pendulum).
  • physical training — fitness coaching
  • platinic chloride — chloroplatinic acid.
  • ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
  • pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
  • polioencephalitis — a disease characterized by inflammation of the gray matter of the brain.
  • polymorphonuclear — (of a leukocyte) having a lobulate nucleus.
  • polyvinyl alcohol — a colorless, water-soluble, thermoplastic resin, derived by the hydrolysis of polyvinyl acetate: used chiefly as an adhesive and as a sizing agent in the manufacture of textiles, paper, and plastics.
  • pre-technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • prothoracic gland — either of a pair of endocrine glands in the anterior thorax of some insects, functioning to promote the series of molts from hatching to adulthood.
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • 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
  • psychographically — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • psychoprophylaxis — Lamaze method.
  • 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.
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • racial harassment — persecution on the basis of race
  • receding hairline — hair that is thinning at the front
  • red and the black — a novel (1832) by Stendhal.
  • republic of china — People's Republic of, a country in E Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Capital: Beijing.
  • republic-of-china — People's Republic of, a country in E Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Capital: Beijing.
  • reticulate python — a python, Python reticulatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, sometimes growing to a length of 32 feet (10 meters): usually considered to be the largest snake in the world.
  • rhetorical stress — stress required by the meaning of a line, as distinguished from that required by the meter.
  • roll with a punch — to move in the same direction as a punch thrown at one so as to lessen its force
  • roman catholicism — the faith, practice, and system of government of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • san pedro channel — a strait between the mainland of SW California and Santa Catalina Island. About 20 miles (32 km) wide.
  • scarlet firethorn — a Eurasian evergreen, thorny shrub, Pyracantha coccinea, of the rose family, having white, hairy flower clusters and bright red berries.
  • scarlet lightning — scarlet lychnis.
  • school attendance — a measure of the number of children who attend school and the amount of time they are present
  • school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
  • schwedler's maple — a variety of the Norway maple, Acer platanoides schwedleri, producing red leaves that subsequently turn green.
  • scrape the barrel — to be forced to use one's last and weakest resource
  • scrophulariaceous — belonging to the Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family of plants.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • shipping articles — articles of agreement.
  • shirt-tail cousin — a distant cousin
  • shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
  • shorthold tenancy — letting of a dwelling for between one and five years at a fair rent
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • sinclair research — (company)   A British microelectronics developer and manufacturer. Evolving from Sinclair Radionics in 1979, Sinclair Research was owned by Sir Clive Sinclair. Sinclair Radionics produced electronic components and devices (such as calculators and pocket radios and televisions), but Sinclair Research began by producing some of the first 8-bit home microcomputers. Sinclair produced five microcomputers from 1980 to 1987, all based on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor (except for the QL, which used the Motorola 68008 - a variant on the 68000). The 1K kit-build ZX80, introduced in 1980, was followed by the 1K ZX81 (expandable to 16K) in 1981, the 16K (expandable to 48K) ZX Spectrum in 1982 (then superseded by two distinct 48K models and a 128K model in 1986) and the QL (Quantum Leap) in 1984. A portable laptop computer, the Z88, was released in 1987 under the Cambridge Computers banner. Of them all, the ZX Spectrum was the best known, and it went on to become the most popular microcomputer of its time in the United Kingdom and in many other territories. This was partly due to its ease of use, and also due to its enormous software catalogue, covering games, word processing, music, programming and graphics. Glorious "mine's-better-than-yours" battles were fought (and still are today) between owners of Spectrums and Commodore 64s over who had the best machine. Sir Clive's financial problems in the mid-80s led him to sell the rights to the Sinclair brand to Amstrad in April 1986. This led to further models of the Spectrum being released from 1986 to 1988 and also an IBM PC-compatible based internally on Amstrad's own PC range. Sir Clive was not involved with the production of these computers, and no computer with the Sinclair name has been produced since.
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • social psychology — the psychological study of social behavior, especially of the reciprocal influence of the individual and the group with which the individual interacts.
  • socratic elenchus — the drawing out of the consequences of a position in order to show them to be contrary to some accepted position
  • spanish civil war — the civil war in Spain 1936–39.
  • special schooling — the system of educating children with special needs in schools designed to meet their needs
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