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17-letter words containing l, e, n, i, t

  • bioelectrogenesis — the production of electricity by organisms.
  • biological parent — a parent who has conceived (biological mother) or sired (biological father) rather than adopted a child and whose genes are therefore transmitted to the child.
  • bitter almond oil — almond oil (def 2).
  • bitter-almond-oil — Also called sweet almond oil, expressed almond oil. a colorless to pale yellow fatty oil expressed from the seeds of the sweet almond, used in preparing perfumes and confections.
  • black-box testing — functional testing
  • block coefficient — the ratio of the immersed volume of a vessel to the product of its immersed draft, length, and beam.
  • blue-sky thinking — Blue-sky thinking is the activity of trying to find completely new ideas.
  • boat-billed heron — a nocturnal, tropical American wading bird (Cochlearius cochlearius) with a large, broad bill: it is the only member of a family (Cochleariidae) of wading birds
  • boolean operation — any operation in which each of the operands and the result take one of two values.
  • boothia peninsula — a peninsula of N Canada: the northernmost part of the mainland of North America, lying west of the Gulf of Boothia, an arm of the Arctic Ocean
  • bouncebackability — the ability to recover after a setback, esp in sport
  • bowel obstruction — a blockage in the bowel
  • brazilian peridot — a light yellowish-green tourmaline used as a gem: not a true peridot.
  • breathe life into — revive, rejuvenate
  • broken white line — a regular, discontinuous white line on a roadway, indicating that overtaking is permitted
  • 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.
  • bushman's singlet — a sleeveless heavy black woollen singlet, used as working clothing by timber fellers
  • butacaine sulfate — a colorless, crystalline substance, (C18H30N2O2)2·H2SO4, used as a local anesthetic, esp. on mucous membranes
  • buttock-clenching — making one tighten the buttocks through extreme fear or embarrassment
  • buttonhole stitch — a reinforcing looped stitch for the edge of material, such as around a buttonhole
  • buyers' inflation — inflation in which rising demand results in a rise in prices.
  • cage zone melting — zone melting of a square bar of the material to be purified, done so that the impurities are concentrated at the corners.
  • calcium carbonate — a white crystalline salt occurring in limestone, chalk, marble, calcite, coral, and pearl: used in the production of lime and cement. Formula: CaCO3
  • calcium gluconate — a white, tasteless, water-soluble powder, CaC 12 H 22 O 14 , used as a dietary supplement to provide calcium.
  • california nutmeg — a tall, pungently aromatic California evergreen tree, Torreya californica, of the yew family, having a fissured, gray-brown bark and small, purple-streaked, green fruit.
  • california privet — a privet, Ligustrum ovalifolium, of the olive family, native to Japan, having glossy, oval leaves and long clusters of white flowers, widely used for hedges in the U.S.
  • cancer specialist — a medical professional who specializes in the treatment or study of malignant growths or tumours
  • cantilever bridge — a bridge having spans that are constructed as cantilevers and often a suspended span or spans, each end of which rests on one end of a cantilever span
  • capital allowance — the practice of allowing a certain amount of money spent by a company on fixed assets to be taken off the profits of the company before tax is imposed
  • capital equipment — the equipment that a business buys
  • capital-intensive — Capital-intensive industries and businesses need the investment of large sums of money. Compare labour-intensive.
  • carolina parakeet — an extinct New World parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis, that ranged into the northern U.S., having yellowish-green plumage with an orange-yellow head.
  • castilla la nueva — Spanish name of New Castile.
  • castle in the air — a hope or desire unlikely to be realized; daydream
  • cat-o'-nine-tails — a rope whip consisting of nine knotted thongs, used formerly to flog prisoners
  • cathedral ceiling — a high ceiling formed by or suggesting an open-timbered roof.
  • caudal anesthesia — anesthesia below the pelvis, induced by injecting an anesthetic into the sacral portion of the spinal canal.
  • cavalier servente — a lover; suitor.
  • celebrity wedding — a wedding of famous people, usually reported at length in celebrity magazines
  • celestial horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
  • cellulose nitrate — a compound made by treating cellulose with nitric and sulphuric acids, used in plastics, lacquers, and explosives: a nitrogen-containing ester of cellulose
  • centi-call second — (spelling)   No, it's centum call second.
  • central committee — (in Communist parties) the body responsible for party policy between meetings of the party congress: in practice, it is in charge of day-to-day operations of the party bureaucracy
  • centrifugal brake — a safety mechanism on a hoist, crane, etc, that consists of revolving brake shoes that are driven outwards by centrifugal force into contact with a fixed brake drum when the rope drum revolves at excessive speed
  • centrifugal force — In physics, centrifugal force is the force that makes objects move outwards when they are spinning around something or travelling in a curve.
  • centripetal force — a force that acts inwards on any body that rotates or moves along a curved path and is directed towards the centre of curvature of the path or the axis of rotation
  • cerebral accident — a disturbance of the blood supply to parts of the brain because of blockage or hemorrhage, causing unconsciousness, paralysis, etc.; stroke
  • chemical equation — a representation of a chemical reaction using symbols of the elements to indicate the amount of substance, usually in moles, of each reactant and product
  • chemical reaction — a process that involves changes in the structure and energy content of atoms, molecules, or ions but not their nuclei
  • child development — the biological and psychological developments in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence
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