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17-letter words containing s, t, e, l, a, r

  • consonant cluster — a group of consonants without an intervening vowel
  • consulate general — the office or residence of a consul general
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • continental crust — that part of the earth's crust that underlies the continents and continental shelves
  • contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
  • controversialness — The state or quality of being controversial.
  • conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
  • coordinate clause — one of two or more clauses in a sentence having the same status and introduced by coordinating conjunctions
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • credit facilities — a type of loan made by a bank
  • critical pressure — the pressure of a gas or the saturated vapour pressure of a substance in its critical state
  • cross-correlation — the correlation between two sequences of random variables in a time series
  • cryptocrystalline — (of rocks) composed of crystals that can be distinguished individually only by the use of a polarizing microscope
  • culture-fair test — a test, usually for intelligence, that does not put anyone taking it at a disadvantage, esp regarding material or cultural background
  • customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • dagestan republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
  • decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
  • defamiliarisation — (arts) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
  • deindustrializing — Present participle of deindustrialize.
  • delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
  • dematerialisation — The act or process of dematerializing.
  • depersonalisation — Alternative spelling of depersonalization.
  • depersonalization — the act or an instance of depersonalizing
  • dephosphorylation — the removal of a phosphate group from an organic compound, as in the changing of ATP to ADP.
  • dessert chocolate — cooking chocolate
  • deterministically — the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws.
  • digital signature — an encrypted digital code appended to an electronic document to verify that it was created by a known source and has not been altered.
  • disaster planning — disaster recovery
  • discreditableness — Quality of being discreditable.
  • discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
  • disrespectability — Lack of respectability.
  • dissolve in tears — weep
  • distance learning — education in which students receive instruction over the Internet, from a video, etc., instead of going to school.
  • distillers' grain — a by-product of the distillation process for making whisky, used as an animal foodstuff
  • dollars-and-cents — considered strictly in terms of money: from a dollars-and-cents viewpoint.
  • doorstep salesman — a door-to-door salesman
  • douglas engelbart — (person)   Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. On 1968-12-09, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, USA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the on live system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking and shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. The original 90-minute video: Hyperlinks, Mouse, Web-board.
  • dull as dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
  • eastern transvaal — Mpumalanga
  • electric constant — the permittivity of free space, which has the value 8.854 187 × 10–12 farad per metre
  • electroanesthesia — Anesthesia induced by cranial electrotherapy stimulation.
  • electrostatically — In an electrostatic manner, by electrostatic means.
  • elementary school — primary school
  • elliptical spring — An elliptical spring is a spring that is made from two springs in the shape of elongated ovals laid cut in half and back-to-back.
  • english breakfast — An English breakfast is a breakfast consisting of cooked food such as bacon, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes. It also includes toast and tea or coffee.
  • enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
  • environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
  • esprit d'escalier — clever repartee one thinks of too late
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