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17-letter words containing u, n, i, s, c

  • germanicus caesar — 15 b.c.–a.d. 19, Roman general.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • guilty conscience — Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
  • half-round chisel — a cold chisel with a semicircular cutting edge used for making narrow channels
  • haroun-al-raschid — Harun al-Rashid.
  • hollandaise sauce — a sauce of egg yolks, butter, lemon juice, and seasonings.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • huygens principle — the principle that all points on a wave front of light are sources of secondary waves and that surfaces tangential to these waves define the position of the wave front at any point in time.
  • huygens' eyepiece — a telescope eyepiece consisting of two planoconvex lenses separated by a distance equal to half the sum of their focal lengths, which are in the ratio of three to one, and oriented so that their curved surfaces face the incident light
  • illusionistically — In an illusionistic manner.
  • immunocompromised — having an impaired or compromised immune response; immunodeficient.
  • immunodiagnostics — the determination of immunologic characteristics of individuals, cells, and other biologic entities.
  • immunofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or using immunofluorescence.
  • inclusion complex — a solid solution in which molecules of one compound occupy places in the crystal lattice of another compound. Compare adduct (def 2).
  • inclusive fitness — the fitness of an individual organism as measured in terms of the survival and reproductive success of its kin, each relative being valued according to the probability of shared genetic information, an offspring or sibling having a value of 50 percent and a cousin 25 percent.
  • inconsequentially — The adverb form of inconsequential: to do something in a manner of little consequence.
  • inconspicuousness — The condition of being inconspicuous.
  • indecent exposure — the intentional exposure of one's body's privates in a manner that gives offense against accepted or prescribed behavior.
  • indestructibility — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indirect question — An indirect question is the same as a reported question.
  • industrial action — job action.
  • industrial school — a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; trade or vocational school.
  • inefficaciousness — Lack of efficacy.
  • infinitive clause — a clause containing an infinitive as its main or only verb form, as to speak clearly in Try to speak clearly.
  • insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
  • insurance carrier — company issuing an insurance policy
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • insurance premium — payment on an insurance policy
  • integral calculus — the branch of mathematics that deals with integrals, especially the methods of ascertaining indefinite integrals and applying them to the solution of differential equations and the determining of areas, volumes, and lengths.
  • integrated course — a course that covers several subjects
  • intellectualising — Give an intellectual character to.
  • intellectualistic — Of or relating to intellectualism.
  • intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
  • interrupted screw — a screw having the thread interrupted in one or more places by longitudinal channels, as in the breech of a cannon or the lead screw of a lathe.
  • intersubjectively — (philosophy) In an intersubjective way; between or among multiple subjects.
  • intersubjectivity — The state or condition of being intersubjective.
  • iron constitution — a particularly strong and resistant physical make-up
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • key man insurance — Key man insurance is an insurance policy taken out by a small company on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss.
  • lame-duck session — (formerly) the December to March session of those members of the U.S. Congress who were defeated for reelection the previous November.
  • lick one's wounds — an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
  • limestone lettuce — a variety of lettuce derived from Bibb lettuce.
  • liquidity cushion — a reserve fund of assets held by a company or person
  • luggage insurance — insurance against the loss of luggage while travelling
  • luminous efficacy — the quotient of the luminous flux of a radiation and its corresponding radiant flux
  • luminous exitance — the ability of a surface to emit light expressed as the luminous flux per unit area at a specified point on the surface
  • macro-linguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macroinstructions — Plural form of macroinstruction.
  • magellanic clouds — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
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