17-letter words containing end
- a means to an end — If you say that something is a means to an end, you mean that it helps you to achieve what you want, although it may not be enjoyable or important itself.
- allende meteorite — a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite that fell over northern Mexico in 1969: one of the largest recorded falls of a stony meteorite.
- ascend the throne — to become king or queen
- attendance centre — (in Britain) a place at which young offenders are required to attend regularly instead of going to prison
- attendance record — the record of how often a person has attended an institution such as a school
- automatic vending — selling goods by vending machines
- base lending rate — a minimum interest rate on which financial institutions base the rates they use for lending
- blank endorsement — an endorsement on a bill of exchange, cheque, etc, naming no payee and thus making the endorsed sum payable to the bearer
- charles townshend — Charles, 1725–67, English politician, chancellor of the exchequer for whom the Townshend Acts are named.
- compound pendulum — physical pendulum.
- condescendingness — The state or quality of being condescending.
- consumer spending — the percentage of an economy that is accounted for by what consumers spend
- defending counsel — a barrister who defends a client in a trial
- delaney amendment — an amendment to the U. S. Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act banning the use of carcinogenic food additives, as certain artificial sweeteners and food colorings.
- dendroarchaeology — (archaeology) the science that uses dendrochronology to date wooden material from archaeological sites.
- dendroclimatology — The science that uses dendrochronology to reconstruct historical climate conditions.
- descending rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by the succession of metrical feet each of which is composed of one accented syllable followed by one or more unaccented syllables.
- double-ended bolt — a headless bolt threaded at both ends.
- ends of the earth — remote regions
- escaping tendency — a property of a gas, related to its partial pressure, that expresses its tendency to escape or expand, given by d(log ef) = dμ/ RT, where μ is the chemical potential, R the gas constant, and T the thermodynamic temperature
- feathered friends — Birds are sometimes referred to as our feathered friends.
- fendalton tractor — a four-wheel drive recreational vehicle
- foucault pendulum — a pendulum that demonstrates the rotation of the earth by exhibiting an apparent change in its plane of oscillation.
- friend of dorothy — a male homosexual
- front-end payment — a payment required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
- gender expression — the external expression of gender roles, as through socially defined behaviors and ways of dressing.
- gridiron pendulum — a clock pendulum having, as part of its shaft, an arrangement of brass and steel rods having different coefficients of expansion, such that the pendulum has the same length at any temperature.
- hold one's end up — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
- hornblende schist — a variety of schist containing needles of hornblende that lie in parallel planes.
- incendiary device — a bomb that is designed to start fires
- independence hall — the building in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
- independent audit — an audit of a company conducted by accountants from an outside accounting firm (distinguished from internal audit).
- independent axiom — in a set of axioms, one that cannot be proved by using the others in the set.
- insulin-dependent — of or relating to the type of diabetes that mainly affects young people
- interdependencies — the quality or condition of being interdependent, or mutually reliant on each other: Globalization of economies leads to an ever-increasing interdependence of countries.
- invisible mending — any form of repair, esp to clothing, in which the aim is to make the finished repair work undetectable
- juvenile offender — a child or young person who has been found guilty of some offence, act of vandalism, or antisocial behaviour before a juvenile court
- keep one's end up — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
- kendal sneck bent — a fishhook having a wide, squarish bend.
- legendre equation — a differential equation of the form (1− x 2) d2y/dx2 − 2 xdy/dx + a (a + 1) y = 0, where a is an arbitrary constant.
- linear dependence — (in linear algebra) the property of a set of elements in a vector space in which at least one of the vectors in the set can be written as a linear combination of the others.
- litigation friend — a person acting on behalf of an infant or other person under legal disability
- man's best friend — a dog, especially as a pet.
- mend one's fences — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- militant tendency — (in Britain) a Trotskyist group formerly operating within the Labour Party
- open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
- parking attendant — a person who works for a traffic control agency and who issues tickets for parking violations
- physical pendulum — any apparatus consisting of a body of possibly irregular shape allowed to rotate freely about a horizontal axis on which it is pivoted (distinguished from simple pendulum).
- post-independence — Also, independency. the state or quality of being independent.
- quasi-independent — not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.
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