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17-letter words containing s, t, i, r, l

  • beer and skittles — enjoyment or pleasure
  • bell laboratories — One of AT&T's research sites, in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA. It was the birthplace of the transistor, Unix, C and C++ and the current home of research on Plan 9 and ODE.
  • bell-hanger's bit — a bit for drilling small holes through studs or the like.
  • belted kingfisher — a grayish-blue, North American kingfisher, Ceryle alcyon, having a white breast marked with a grayish-blue band.
  • bicycle motocross — a bicycle race over a rough cross-country course, usually consisting of jumps, obstacles, and turns. Abbreviation: BMX.
  • bioelectrogenesis — the production of electricity by organisms.
  • blackout curtains — thick, lined curtains designed to shut out all daylight and keep a room in complete darkness
  • blood transfusion — A blood transfusion is a process in which blood is injected into the body of a person who is badly injured or ill.
  • bowel obstruction — a blockage in the bowel
  • british columbian — of or relating to British Columbia or its inhabitants
  • british israelite — a member of a religious movement claiming that the British people are descended from the lost tribes of Israel
  • 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.
  • building industry — the economic sector comprising all companies involved in construction
  • buyers' inflation — inflation in which rising demand results in a rise in prices.
  • cancer specialist — a medical professional who specializes in the treatment or study of malignant growths or tumours
  • capital structure — the way that a company finances its assets through a combination of equity, debt etc
  • carlos de austria — Don [dawn] /dɔn/ (Show IPA), 1545–68, eldest son of Philip II of Spain: died during imprisonment for conspiracy against his father.
  • castle in the air — a hope or desire unlikely to be realized; daydream
  • causality paradox — the hypothetical cause-and-effect of time travel and making changes in the past that would affect current actions.
  • cavalier servente — a lover; suitor.
  • celestial equator — the great circle lying on the celestial sphere, the plane of which is perpendicular to the line joining the north and south celestial poles
  • 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
  • chiltern hundreds — (in Britain) short for Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds; a nominal office that an MP applies for in order to resign his seat
  • china grass cloth — grass cloth.
  • chocolate soldier — a person who mistakenly believes that he or she is very powerful, important, or impressive
  • chromolithographs — Plural form of chromolithograph.
  • circassian walnut — the hard, heavy, brown or purplish wood of the English walnut
  • circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
  • circumscriptively — In a circumscriptive manner.
  • circumstantiality — the quality of being circumstantial
  • circumterrestrial — surrounding or revolving about the earth.
  • civil partnership — A civil partnership is a legal relationship between two people of the same sex that is similar to marriage.
  • clear box testing — white box testing
  • clicks and mortar — making use of traditional trading methods in conjunction with internet trading
  • clicks-and-mortar — pertaining to or denoting a company that does business on the Internet and in traditional stores or offices.
  • 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
  • club subscription — an amount of money that someone pays regularly in order to belong to a club
  • coarse-grain salt — salt with a much larger grain size than table salt
  • cocktail waitress — a woman who serves in a bar or cocktail lounge
  • collaborativeness — Quality of being collaborative.
  • colloid chemistry — the study of colloids.
  • 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 television — television that broadcasts in real-life colours, as opposed to black and white
  • commercialisation — Alternative spelling of commercialization.
  • common storksbill — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, having pink or reddish-purple flowers and fruits with a beaklike process
  • compartmentalised — Simple past tense and past participle of compartmentalise.
  • compartmentalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compartmentalize.
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