17-letter words containing can
- scan-in, scan-out — scan design
- self-significance — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
- significance test — (in hypothesis testing) a test of whether the alternative hypothesis achieves the predetermined significance level in order to be accepted in preference to the null hypothesis
- significant other — Sociology. a person, as a parent or peer, who has great influence on one's behavior and self-esteem.
- situations vacant — Situations Vacant is the title of a column or page in a newspaper where jobs are advertised.
- spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- this can't happen — can't happen
- vacant possession — ownership of an unoccupied house or property, any previous owner or tenant having departed
- vulcan death grip — (jargon) A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.