17-letter words containing l, i, t, a, n, y
- polyacrylonitrile — a polymer of acrylonitrile used in the manufacture of Orlon and other synthetic textiles.
- polyvinyl acetate — a colorless, odorless, nontoxic, transparent, thermoplastic, water-insoluble resin used as an adhesive in certain paints and as an intermediate in the synthesis of polyvinyl acetal and polyvinyl alcohol.
- polyvinyl butyral — a white, water-insoluble, polyvinyl acetal made with butyraldehyde, used chiefly as an interlayer in the manufacture of safety glass.
- postal stationery — an envelope, postal card, wrapper, or aérogramme, with the stamp printed directly on the paper.
- pre-revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- psychoeducational — designating or of psychological methods, as intelligence tests, used in evaluating learning ability
- quality assurance — a system for ensuring a desired level of quality in the development, production, or delivery of products and services: Quality assurance for nursing homes begins with a set of standards. Abbreviation: QA.
- quality newspaper — a more serious newspaper which gives detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
- reality principle — the motivating force or mechanism by which the child, who has previously sought immediate gratification of all wishes, realizes that gratification must sometimes be deferred or forgone.
- recrystallization — to become crystallized again.
- reticulate python — a python, Python reticulatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, sometimes growing to a length of 32 feet (10 meters): usually considered to be the largest snake in the world.
- revolutionary war — American Revolution.
- royal institution — a British society founded in 1799 for the dissemination of scientific knowledge
- sanitary landfill — landfill.
- secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
- situational irony — irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.
- spatial frequency — the measure of fine detail in an optical image in terms of cycles per millimetre
- spectrum analysis — the determination of the constitution or condition of bodies and substances by means of the spectra they produce.
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- split personality — multiple personality.
- stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
- subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
- synchronistically — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- terminal capacity — The terminal capacity is the volume which can be stored in a terminal (= building or area with tanks).
- terminal velocity — Physics. the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity. the maximum velocity of a body falling through a viscous fluid.
- the alpine valley — a straight fracture on the moon that cuts the Alps in two
- the pennsylvanian — the Pennsylvanian period or rock system, equivalent to the Upper Carboniferous of Europe
- transatlantically — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
- tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
- uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- unconventionality — disregard for convention; the state or quality of being inconsistent with customs, rules, etc.; originality.
- understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- unproportionately — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
- unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
- vertical analysis — the conversion of an organization's profits and losses into overall percentages
- village community — an early form of community organization in which land belonged to the village, the arable land being allotted to the members or households of the community by more or less permanent arrangements and the waste or excess land remaining undivided.