17-letter words containing c, h, a, n, d, l
- hydrofluorocarbon — Any of a class of partly chlorinated and fluorinated hydrocarbons, used as an alternative to chlorofluorocarbons in foam production, refrigeration, and other processes.
- hypochondriacally — In a hypochondriacal manner.
- indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
- independence hall — the building in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
- industrial school — a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; trade or vocational school.
- integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
- madonna and child — a representation of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus.
- maintained school — a school financially supported by the state
- mechanical digger — a machine used for excavation
- mitochondrial dna — DNA found in mitochondria, which contains some structural genes and is generally inherited only through the female line
- nuclear threshold — the point in war at which a combatant brings nuclear weapons into use
- old norman french — Norman French (sense 1)
- phenylacetic acid — a white crystalline, aromatic acid, C 8 H 8 O 2 , used in the manufacture of penicillin and in perfumes.
- phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
- 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).
- platinic chloride — chloroplatinic acid.
- 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.
- psychoeducational — designating or of psychological methods, as intelligence tests, used in evaluating learning ability
- receding hairline — hair that is thinning at the front
- red and the black — a novel (1832) by Stendhal.
- san pedro channel — a strait between the mainland of SW California and Santa Catalina Island. About 20 miles (32 km) wide.
- 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
- shorthold tenancy — letting of a dwelling for between one and five years at a fair rent
- smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
- 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.
- swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
- technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
- thousandths-place — last in order of a series of a thousand.
- transdermal patch — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
- vaginal discharge — emission from the female genitalia
- vulcan death grip — (jargon) A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.
- wind chill factor — A wind chill factor is a measure of the cooling effect of the wind on the temperature of the air.
- wind-chill factor — the apparent temperature felt on the exposed human body owing to the combination of temperature and wind speed.