17-letter words containing ab
- diabetes mellitus — a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism characterized by excessive thirst and excretion of abnormally large quantities of urine containing an excess of sugar, caused by a deficiency of insulin
- differentiability — The ability to be differentiated.
- disability clause — a clause in a life-insurance policy providing for waiver of premium and sometimes payment of monthly income if the policyholder becomes totally and permanently disabled.
- discreditableness — Quality of being discreditable.
- discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
- dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
- disposable income — the part of a person's income remaining after deducting personal income taxes.
- disrespectability — Lack of respectability.
- division of labor — a production process in which a worker or group of workers is assigned a specialized task in order to increase efficiency.
- establishing shot — Cinema
- get above oneself — If you say that someone is getting above themself, you disapprove of them because they think they are better than everyone else.
- hard-shelled crab — a crab, esp. an edible sea crab, before it has shed its hard shell
- headline-grabbing — A headline-grabbing statement or activity is one that is intended to attract a lot of attention, especially from the media.
- henry cabot lodge — Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. public servant and author: senator 1893–1924.
- honorable mention — a citation conferred on a contestant, exhibit, etc., having exceptional merit though not winning a top honor or prize.
- hyperexcitability — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
- hyperirritability — extreme irritability.
- impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
- impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- inalienable right — right that cannot be taken away
- incommunicability — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
- inconceivableness — The quality of being inconceivable.
- indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
- indefatigableness — The state of being indefatigable.
- indescribableness — The quality of being indescribable.
- indispensableness — The characteristic of being indispensable; indispensability.
- indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
- indistinguishably — In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
- instance variable — (programming) In object-oriented programming, one of the variables of a class template which may have a different value for each object of that class. Instance variables hold the state of an object.
- insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
- insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- intertranslatable — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
- irreconcilability — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
- irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
- juvenile diabetes — any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
- knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
- label edge router — (networking) (LER) A device that sits at the edge of an MPLS domain, that uses routing information to assign labels to datagrams and then forwards them into the MPLS domain.
- laboratory school — a school maintained by a college or university for the training of student teachers.
- latent strabismus — the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.
- learning-disabled — pertaining to or having a learning disability: a learning-disabled child.
- liability account — A liability account is an account recording a company's liabilities.
- limited liability — a liability restricted by law or contract, as the liability of owners of shares in a corporation or limited company, or that of a special partner.
- make noises about — to give indications of one's intentions
- manufacturability — The condition of being manufacturable.
- mental disability — a general or specific intellectual handicap, resulting directly or indirectly from injury to the brain or from abnormal neurological development
- metabolic pathway — biochemistry: sequence of reactions within a cell or organism
- microdermabrasion — A cosmetic treatment in which the face is sprayed with exfoliant crystals to remove dead epidermal cells.
- misunderstandable — Capable of being misunderstood.
- movable-do system — a system of solmization in which the syllable do can be transposed to the tonic of any key.
- negotiating table — If you say that people are at the negotiating table, you mean that they are having discussions in order to settle a dispute or reach an agreement.