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17-letter words containing n, p, l

  • 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.
  • biological weapon — a weapon which uses a biological agent to harm people and other living organisms
  • blind carbon copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, or a copy of an email or other electronic document, that is sent to someone whose name is not visible to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: bcc.
  • blowout preventer — A blowout preventer is a valve that can be closed when there is uncontrolled flow of fluids.
  • blowpipe analysis — a type of chemical analysis in which the intensely hot flame of a blowpipe vaporizes a mineral or other substance with a characteristically colored flame and a unique odor, so as to identify chemical elements in a substance
  • body center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
  • 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
  • brazilian peridot — a light yellowish-green tourmaline used as a gem: not a true peridot.
  • brompton cocktail — an analgesic mixture, usually containing morphine and cocaine and sometimes other narcotic substances in an alcohol solution, administered primarily to advanced cancer patients.
  • buckingham palace — the London residence of the British sovereign: built in 1703, rebuilt by John Nash in 1821–36 and partially redesigned in the early 20th century
  • business envelope — an envelope into which standard-size (81⁄2″ × 11″) letterhead stationery can be put with only two folds
  • 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.
  • call-and-response — a form of interaction between a speaker and one or more listeners, in which every utterance of the speaker elicits a verbal or non-verbal response from the listener or listeners
  • cancer specialist — a medical professional who specializes in the treatment or study of malignant growths or tumours
  • 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 formation — the net additions to a capital stock in an accounting period
  • capital gains tax — a tax on the profit made from the sale of an asset
  • capital-intensive — Capital-intensive industries and businesses need the investment of large sums of money. Compare labour-intensive.
  • 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
  • carolina allspice — any of a genus (Calycanthus) of hardy shrubs (family Calycanthaceae) of a dicotyledonous order (Laurales) of plants, bearing reddish-brown, sweet-smelling flowers
  • 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.
  • castor and pollux — the twin sons of Leda: Pollux was fathered by Zeus, Castor by the mortal Tyndareus. After Castor's death, Pollux spent half his days with his half-brother in Hades and half with the gods in Olympus
  • catapult-launched — (of aircraft) launched into the air by a device installed in warships
  • cellophane noodle — a stringlike, transparent noodle used esp. in East Asian cooking
  • 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
  • chadless keypunch — (hardware)   A card punch which cut little U-shapes in punched cards, rather than punching out a circle or rectangle. The U's made a hole when folded back. One of the Jargon File's correspondents believed that the term "chad" derived from the Chadless keypunch. Obviously, if the Chadless keypunch didn't make them, then the stuff that other keypunches made had to be "chad". The assertion that the keypunch was named after its inventor is not supported by any record in US or UK patents or surname references.
  • chelsea pensioner — an old ex-soldier resident in the Chelsea Royal Hospital
  • 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.
  • chinagraph pencil — a coloured pencil used for writing on china, glass, etc
  • chloracetophenone — chloroacetophenone.
  • chloronaphthalene — either of two isomeric naphthalene compounds containing one chlorine atom.
  • chronographically — a timepiece fitted with a recording device, as a stylus and rotating drum, used to mark the exact instant of an occurrence, especially in astronomy.
  • chukchi peninsula — a peninsula in the extreme NE of Russia, in NE Siberia: mainly tundra
  • civil partnership — A civil partnership is a legal relationship between two people of the same sex that is similar to marriage.
  • clifden nonpareil — a handsome nocturnal moth, Catocala fraxini, that is brown with bluish patches on the hindwings: related to the red underwing
  • clinicopathologic — of or relating to the combined study of disease symptoms and pathology.
  • clipperton island — an uninhabited atoll in the E Pacific SW of Mexico, under French administration. Area: 6 sq km (2.3 sq miles)
  • close corporation — a small private limited company
  • close parenthesis — right parenthesis
  • close punctuation — punctuation in which many commas, full stops, etc, are used
  • 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.
  • club subscription — an amount of money that someone pays regularly in order to belong to a club
  • clumber (spaniel) — a short-legged spaniel with a heavy body and a thick coat of straight, white hair marked with yellow or orange
  • collodion process — wet plate process.
  • colour separation — the division of a coloured original into cyan, magenta, yellow, and black so that plates may be made for print reproduction. Separation may be achieved by electronic scanning or by photographic techniques using filters to isolate each colour
  • colour supplement — A colour supplement is a colour magazine which is one of the sections of a newspaper, especially at weekends.
  • combe-capelle man — a skeleton of the early Upper Paleolithic Perigordian culture in France.
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