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17-letter words containing c, r, a, d, l, e

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  • paradoxical sleep — REM sleep.
  • periodical cicada — seventeen-year locust.
  • peripheral device — peripheral
  • personal distance — personal space.
  • phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
  • platinic chloride — chloroplatinic acid.
  • polar coordinates — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
  • police department — A police department is an official organization which is responsible for making sure that people obey the law.
  • police procedural — a mystery novel, film, or television drama that deals realistically with police work.
  • product placement — Product placement is a form of advertising in which a company has its product placed where it can be clearly seen during a film or television programme.
  • production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
  • prudence crandall — Prudence, 1803–90, U.S. educator and civil-rights activist.
  • 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.
  • pseudo-moralistic — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • quattuordecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 45 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 84 zeros.
  • radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
  • rail detector car — a car equipped with special instruments and used to locate defects in rails.
  • receding hairline — hair that is thinning at the front
  • recreational drug — drug taken for pleasure
  • recurring decimal — Mathematics. repeating decimal.
  • red and the black — a novel (1832) by Stendhal.
  • reduction formula — a formula, such as sin (90° ± A) = cos A, expressing the values of a trigonometric function of any angle greater than 90° in terms of a function of an acute angle
  • regulated tenancy — (in Britain) the letting of a dwelling by a nonresident private landlord, usually at a registered fair rent, from which the landlord cannot evict the tenant without a possession order from a court
  • repeating decimal — a decimal numeral that, after a certain point, consists of a group of one or more digits repeated ad infinitum, as 2.33333 …. or 23.0218181818 ….
  • road-fund licence — a licence showing that the tax payable in respect of a motor vehicle has been paid
  • sacrificial anode — Chemistry. an anode that is attached to a metal object subject to electrolysis and is decomposed instead of the object.
  • san pedro channel — a strait between the mainland of SW California and Santa Catalina Island. About 20 miles (32 km) wide.
  • sandro botticelli — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • schwedler's maple — a variety of the Norway maple, Acer platanoides schwedleri, producing red leaves that subsequently turn green.
  • second balkan war — Balkan War (def 2).
  • secondary glazing — insulation by means of a second pane of glass, or a sheet of plastic: a simple form of double glazing
  • secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • secondary sealing — Secondary sealing is a system of wiper seals used in floating roof tanks.
  • securities dealer — a person who buys and sells securities
  • self-depreciating — self-deprecating.
  • shorthold tenancy — letting of a dwelling for between one and five years at a fair rent
  • single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • social democratic — A social democratic party is a political party whose principles are based on social democracy.
  • spruce gall aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
  • 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.
  • surgical dressing — a dressing made of cotton, used for incisions made during surgery
  • sword of damocles — Damocles (def 2).
  • 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
  • telescopic damper — a device with telescopic parts that reduce vibration in a motor vehicle
  • terephthalic acid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 6 O 2 , the para isomer of phthalic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and textile fibers.
  • three-legged race — a race among a number of paired contestants, each contestant having one leg tied to the adjacent leg of his or her partner.
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