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17-letter words containing il

  • one-parent family — A one-parent family is a family that consists of one parent and his or her children living together.
  • orange flower oil — neroli oil.
  • organized militia — a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.
  • pair annihilation — Physics. annihilation (def 3a).
  • pan and tilt head — a mounting device on which a camera may be rotated in a horizontal plane (pan) or in a vertical plane (tilt)
  • parts per million — the number of units (of a substance) present in a million units of another substance
  • pauline privilege — (in canon law) the privilege given to converts to dissolve a marriage with an unbaptized spouse if either obstructs the religious practices of the other.
  • petrol filler cap — a small cover that goes over the hole in a vehicle into which you put petrol
  • philanthropically — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
  • philosopher kings — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • piccadilly circus — a traffic circle and open square in W London, England: theater and amusement center.
  • pied-billed grebe — an American grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, having a whitish bill with a black band around it.
  • pile on the agony — to exaggerate one's distress for sympathy or greater effect
  • pillar-and-breast — room-and-pillar.
  • pillion passenger — a person who travels in a seat or place behind the rider of a motorcycle, scooter, horse, etc
  • point reyes lilac — a prostrate shrub, Ceanothus gloriosus, of southern California, having leathery, roundish leaves and purplish or deep-blue flowers.
  • polarizing filter — a camera lens filter used to control the plane of polarization of light entering the lens.
  • polyacrylonitrile — a polymer of acrylonitrile used in the manufacture of Orlon and other synthetic textiles.
  • post-and-rail tea — (in the 19th century) a coarse tea in which floating particles resembled a post-and-rail fence
  • postmillennialism — the doctrine or belief that the second coming of Christ will follow the millennium.
  • prior probability — the probability assigned to a parameter or to an event in advance of any empirical evidence, often subjectively or on the assumption of the principle of indifference
  • probability curve — a curve that describes the distribution of probability over the values of a random variable.
  • product liability — the responsibility of a manufacturer for injury or loss caused by its product.
  • profile component — attainment targets in different subjects brought together for the general assessment of a pupil
  • propelling pencil — a pencil consisting of a metal or plastic case containing a replaceable lead. As the point is worn away the lead can be extended, usually by turning part of the case
  • purple granadilla — the edible fruit of any of several species of passionflower, especially Passiflora edulis (purple granadilla) or P. quadrangularis (giant granadilla)
  • quattuordecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 45 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 84 zeros.
  • rail detector car — a car equipped with special instruments and used to locate defects in rails.
  • railroad crossing — place for vehicles to cross train tracks
  • railway timetable — a list of railway journeys arranged according to the time when they begin and end
  • rat-tailed maggot — the aquatic larva of any of several syrphid flies of the genus Eristalis, that breathes through a long, thin tube at the posterior end of its body.
  • recoil escapement — anchor escapement.
  • red-billed quelea — any of several African weaverbirds of the genus Quelea, especially Q. quelea (red-billed quelea) noted for its vast flocks that destroy grain crops.
  • reduce to silence — If someone or something reduces you to silence, they make you feel so upset or confused that you cannot speak.
  • register of wills — (in some states of the U.S.) the official charged with the probate of wills or with the keeping of the records of the probate court.
  • register spilling — (programming, compiler)   (By analogy with spilling the contents of an overfull container) When a compiler is performing the register allocation phase of generating machine code and there are more live variables than the machine has registers and it has to transfer or "spill" some variables from registers to memory.
  • ring-tailed lemur — a Madagascan prosimian primate, Lemur catta, with a long black and white ringed tail
  • roseate spoonbill — a tropical New World spoonbill, Ajaia ajaja, having rose-colored plumage and a bare head.
  • san quentin quail — jailbait.
  • sanitary landfill — landfill.
  • self-annihilation — self-destruction; suicide.
  • semi-permeability — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • semi-skimmed milk — half-fat dairy product
  • shirt-tail cousin — a distant cousin
  • silent revolution — a social or political revolution that takes place with little warning and without great fuss or unrest
  • silicon rectifier — a rectifier consisting of a semiconductor diode using crystalline silicon
  • silk manufacturer — a person or business that is involved in the manufacture of silk thread and fabric
  • silk-screen print — a type of print made with a stencil and a fine mesh screen. Ink is applied to and forced through the small holes in the screen leaving the covered area free from ink
  • silver collection — a collection that consists of silver coins that is made at a meeting etc
  • silver star medal — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a bronze star with a small silver star at the center, awarded for gallantry in action
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