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17-letter words containing lan

  • abariringa island — a coral atoll in the S Pacific Ocean, part of Kiribati: largest of the Phoenix Islands. 3.5 sq. mi. (9 sq. km).
  • absentee landlord — a landlord who does not live in or near a property from which he draws an income
  • according to plan — If something happens according to plan, it happens in exactly the way that it was intended to happen.
  • active language i — (tool, mathematics)   An early interactive mathematics system for the XDS 930 at the University of California at Berkeley.
  • admiralty islands — a group of about 40 volcanic and coral islands in the SW Pacific, part of Papua New Guinea, in the Bismarck Archipelago: main island: Manus. Pop (whole province): 43 589 (2000). Area: about 2000 sq km (800 sq miles)
  • ambulance service — the public organization that operates ambulances in a country
  • american highland — a region in Antarctica, W of Enderby Land and E of Wilkes Land: discovered 1939.
  • andreanof islands — a group of islands in the central Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Area: 3710 sq km (1432 sq miles)
  • antiprostaglandin — A prostaglandin inhibitor.
  • assateague island — a narrow island in SE Maryland and E Virginia on Chincoteague Bay: annual wild pony roundup. 33 miles (53 km) long.
  • assembly language — a low-level programming language that allows a programmer complete control of the machine code to be generated
  • balance of nature — the stable state in which natural communities of animals and plants exist, maintained by adaptation, competition, and other interactions between members of the communit ies and their nonliving environment
  • balance of terror — military deterrence based on the possession of weapons of mass destruction by opponents in a conflict
  • balance the books — do accounting
  • balanced literacy — a method of teaching reading in which phonics and whole language approaches are both used to maximize student learning.
  • balanced sentence — a sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure.
  • bartholin's gland — either of two small glands near the vaginal opening: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous lubricating substance
  • blackwells island — a former name of Roosevelt Island.
  • bland-allison act — an act of Congress (1878) requiring the federal government to purchase at the market price from two to four million dollars' worth of silver monthly for conversion into silver dollars containing 16 times more silver per coin than gold in dollar coins of gold.
  • blank endorsement — an endorsement on a bill of exchange, cheque, etc, naming no payee and thus making the endorsed sum payable to the bearer
  • catalina (island) — Santa Catalina (Island)
  • chanson de roland — English The Song of Roland. a chanson de geste (c1100) relating Roland's brave deeds and death at Roncesvalles and Charlemagne's revenge.
  • church of england — The Church of England is the main church in England. It has the Queen as its head and it does not recognize the authority of the Pope.
  • clang association — the association made between two words because they sound similar; for example cling and ring
  • cleveland heights — city in NE Ohio: suburb of Cleveland: pop. 50,000
  • clipperton island — an uninhabited atoll in the E Pacific SW of Mexico, under French administration. Area: 6 sq km (2.3 sq miles)
  • cloud cuckoo land — an idealized, illusory domain of imagination; cloudland: the cloud-cuckoo-land of technicolor cartoon whimsy.
  • cloud-cuckoo-land — If you say that someone is living in cloud-cuckoo-land, you are criticizing them because they think there are no problems and that things will happen exactly as they want them to, when this is obviously not the case.
  • colleterial gland — a paired accessory reproductive gland, present in most female insects, secreting a sticky substance that forms either the egg cases or the cement that binds the eggs to a surface
  • commuter airplane — air taxi.
  • computer language — programming language
  • cook island māori — a dialect of Māori spoken in the Cook Islands
  • daughter language — a language that has evolved from another specified language.
  • 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.
  • disaster planning — disaster recovery
  • emergency landing — an occasion when a place is forced to land: for example, because of a mechanical fault, bad weather, terrorism, etc.
  • extrasolar planet — any other celestial body revolving around a star, illuminated by light from that star
  • falkland islander — a person from the Falkland Islands
  • federal land bank — a U.S. federal bank for making long-term loans to farmers.
  • financial planner — a person whose business is advising individuals in the management of their financial affairs
  • french somaliland — a former name of Djibouti (def 1).
  • galapagos islands — a group of 15 islands in the Pacific west of Ecuador, of which they form a province: discovered (1535) by the Spanish; main settlement on San Cristóbal. Pop: 18 640 (2001). Area: 7844 sq km (3028 sq miles)
  • great namaqualand — an arid coastal region in the S part of Namibia, extending into the Cape of Good Hope province of the Republic of South Africa, divided by the Orange River into two regions, one in Namibia (Great Namaqualand) the other in South Africa (Little Namaqualand) inhabited by the Nama.
  • greater celandine — celandine (def 1).
  • greenland current — the ocean current flowing clockwise around S Greenland.
  • greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
  • half-breadth plan — a diagrammatic plan of one half of the hull of a vessel divided lengthwise amidships, showing water lines, stations, diagonals, and bow and buttock lines.
  • hollandaise sauce — a sauce of egg yolks, butter, lemon juice, and seasonings.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs

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