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17-letter words containing d, o, l, i

  • brazilian peridot — a light yellowish-green tourmaline used as a gem: not a true peridot.
  • broderie anglaise — open embroidery on white cotton, fine linen, etc
  • budget resolution — a resolution adopted by both houses of the U.S. Congress setting forth, reaffirming, or revising the budget for the U.S. government for a fiscal year.
  • building labourer — an unskilled worker on construction sites
  • bull's-eye window — bull's-eye (def 7).
  • calcium hydroxide — a white crystalline slightly soluble alkali with many uses, esp in cement, water softening, and the neutralization of acid soils. Formula: Ca(OH)2
  • california condor — either of two large, New World vultures of the family Cathartidae, Gymnogyps californianus (California condor) or Vultur gryphus (Andean condor) the largest flying birds in the Western Hemisphere: the California condor is almost extinct; the Andean condor is greatly reduced in number and rare in many areas.
  • canadian football — a game resembling American football, played on a grass pitch between two teams of 12 players
  • canarybird flower — a nasturtium, Tropaeolum peregrinum, of Peru, having round, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • carbon disulphide — a colourless slightly soluble volatile flammable poisonous liquid commonly having a disagreeable odour due to the presence of impurities: used as an organic solvent and in the manufacture of rayon and carbon tetrachloride. Formula: CS2
  • carbonyl chloride — phosgene
  • cardiac glycoside — any of a group of drugs used to stimulate the heart in cases of heart failure, obtained from a number of plants, as the foxglove, squill, or yellow oleander.
  • cardinal grosbeak — any of various mostly tropical American buntings, such as the cardinal and pyrrhuloxia, the males of which have brightly coloured plumage
  • cardioaccelerator — a substance that increases the heart rate.
  • carlos de austria — Don [dawn] /dɔn/ (Show IPA), 1545–68, eldest son of Philip II of Spain: died during imprisonment for conspiracy against his father.
  • carolina moonseed — a twining woody vine, Cocculus carolinus, of the southeastern U.S., having inconspicuous flowers and showy, red fruit.
  • causality paradox — the hypothetical cause-and-effect of time travel and making changes in the past that would affect current actions.
  • centi-call second — (spelling)   No, it's centum call second.
  • checkable deposit — a checking account
  • chemopallidectomy — an operation for treating Parkinson's disease and certain other diseases characterized by muscular rigidity, consisting of destroying a specific part of the corpus striatum by injecting it with a chemical, usually alcohol.
  • chicklet keyboard — (spelling)   It's spelled "chiclet keyboard".
  • child development — the biological and psychological developments in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence
  • child pornography — pornography using a child or children as the subject.
  • chloroacetic acid — a colourless crystalline soluble strong acid prepared by chlorinating acetic acid and used as an intermediate in the manufacture of many chemicals; monochloracetic acid. Formula: CH2ClCOOH
  • chocolate soldier — a person who mistakenly believes that he or she is very powerful, important, or impressive
  • class distinction — a characteristic that is observed to differ based on social class
  • clicks and mortar — making use of traditional trading methods in conjunction with internet trading
  • clicks-and-mortar — pertaining to or denoting a company that does business on the Internet and in traditional stores or offices.
  • clifden nonpareil — a handsome nocturnal moth, Catocala fraxini, that is brown with bluish patches on the hindwings: related to the red underwing
  • clipperton island — an uninhabited atoll in the E Pacific SW of Mexico, under French administration. Area: 6 sq km (2.3 sq miles)
  • close to the wind — sailing as nearly as possible towards the direction from which the wind is blowing
  • close-order drill — practice in formation marching and other movements, in the carrying of arms during formal marching, and in the formal handling of arms for ceremonies and guard.
  • closed-captioning — (of a television program, film, or video) distributed with synchronized transcription of speech and written descriptions of other relevant audio elements, as for the hearing-impaired, that are visible only when the option to display them is selected. Abbreviation: CC.
  • closing-down sale — a sale held to clear stock from a shop that is ceasing to operate
  • codlins-and-cream — an onagraceous plant, Epilobium hirsutum, native to Europe and Asia and introduced into North America, having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves
  • collected edition — a comprehensive edition of the writings of a particular author.
  • colleterial gland — a paired accessory reproductive gland, present in most female insects, secreting a sticky substance that forms either the egg cases or the cement that binds the eggs to a surface
  • collision density — the rate at which collisions are occurring per unit volume per unit time, usually pertaining to the collisions of neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
  • collodion process — wet plate process.
  • colloid chemistry — the study of colloids.
  • color-coordinated — with all parts or elements related, blended, or matched to a particular color scheme.
  • commercial credit — credit issued by a bank to a business to finance trading or manufacturing operations.
  • compartmentalised — Simple past tense and past participle of compartmentalise.
  • compartmentalized — separated into several discrete areas
  • compound interval — an interval that is greater than an octave, as a ninth or a thirteenth.
  • concurrent euclid — (language, parallel)   A concurrent extension of a subset of Euclid ("Simple Euclid") developed by J.R. Cordy and R.C. Holt of the University of Toronto in 1980. Concurrent Euclid features separate compilation, modules, processes and monitors, signal and wait on condition variables, 'converters' to defeat strong type checking, absolute addresses. All procedures and functions are re-entrant. TUNIS (a Unix-like operating system) is written in Concurrent Euclid.
  • condensing boiler — an energy-efficient boiler that makes use of what would otherwise be waste heat
  • consolidated fund — a fund into which tax revenue is paid in order to meet standing charges, esp interest payments on the national debt
  • consolidated laws — a body of laws collected together in a single codifying statute
  • consolidation act — an Act of Parliament resulting from the combination of two or more previous Acts of Parliament
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