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17-letter words containing i, c, e, d, a, n

  • 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.
  • superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
  • surgical dressing — a dressing made of cotton, used for incisions made during surgery
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • take into custody — to arrest
  • teacher education — training to become a teacher, usually at an institution of higher education
  • 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
  • the confederation — the original 13 states of the United States of America constituted under the Articles of Confederation and superseded by the more formal union established in 1789
  • therapeutic index — the ratio between the dosage of a drug that causes a lethal effect and the dosage that causes a therapeutic effect.
  • third commandment — “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain”: third of the Ten Commandments.
  • trade association — an association of people or companies in a particular business or trade, organized to promote their common interests.
  • traffic diversion — a special route arranged for traffic to follow when the normal route cannot be used
  • transcendentalism — transcendental character, thought, or language.
  • transcendentalist — transcendental character, thought, or language.
  • transcendentalize — to cause to become transcendent.
  • tropical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of diseases occurring in the tropics.
  • unclassified road — a road that has not been given a grade because it is of a basic standard
  • undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • unpredictableness — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • vaginal discharge — emission from the female genitalia
  • vascular cylinder — stele (sense 3)
  • vice-presidential — relating to a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic
  • voidable contract — a contract or agreement that is capable of being made of no legal effect or made void
  • 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.
  • winding staircase — long set of spiral stairs
  • windscreen washer — a small nozzle on the bonnet of a motor vehicle, from which jets of water are squirted electronically onto the windscreen to help clean it
  • with a difference — If you describe a job or holiday, for example, as a job with a difference or a holiday with a difference, you mean that the job or holiday is very interesting and unusual.
  • zone of avoidance — the area of the sky in the plane of the Milky Way where interstellar dust obscures visible light so that no distant galaxies can be observed.
  • zoological garden — zoo (def 1).
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