17-letter words containing lit
- lithostratigraphy — the study or character of stratified rocks based solely on their physical and petrographic features.
- litigation friend — a person acting on behalf of an infant or other person under legal disability
- little black book — an address book, esp. one kept by a man, with the names of women companions considered available for dating
- little blue heron — a small heron, Egretta caerulea, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere, having bluish-gray plumage.
- little fork river — a river in N Minnesota, flowing N to the Rainy River on the Canadian border. 132 miles (212 km) long.
- lower paleolithic — See under Paleolithic.
- manufacturability — The condition of being manufacturable.
- marriage equality — the state of having the same rights and responsibilities of marriage as others, regardless of one's sexual orientation or gender identity.
- mental disability — a general or specific intellectual handicap, resulting directly or indirectly from injury to the brain or from abnormal neurological development
- militant tendency — (in Britain) a Trotskyist group formerly operating within the Labour Party
- military covenant — the supposed understanding that members of the armed forces and their families will be supported by the state in the event of injury or death in the course of duty
- military governor — the military officer in command of a military government.
- military training — drilling in army discipline and techniques
- monolith catalyst — A monolith catalyst is a type of catalyst whose surface is flat.
- multipotentiality — The capacity to develop in multiple ways; the state of having multiple potentialities.
- muscae volitantes — floater (def 6).
- non-assignability — capable of being specified: The word has no assignable meaning in our language.
- north little rock — a city in central Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
- off-site facility — An off-site facility is a facility which is not at the main industrial or commercial site.
- organized militia — a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.
- pashmina politics — the adoption of political policies immediately after they have gone out of fashion
- personality clash — friction between two people who have different personalities or points of view
- polioencephalitis — a disease characterized by inflammation of the gray matter of the brain.
- political economy — a social science dealing with political policies and economic processes, their interrelations, and their influence on social institutions.
- political liberty — the right to express oneself freely and effectually regarding the conduct, makeup, and principles of the government under which one lives.
- political refugee — a person who has fled from a homeland because of political persecution.
- political science — a social science dealing with political institutions and with the principles and conduct of government.
- primary qualities — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
- 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.
- quality assurance — a system for ensuring a desired level of quality in the development, production, or delivery of products and services: Quality assurance for nursing homes begins with a set of standards. Abbreviation: QA.
- quality newspaper — a more serious newspaper which gives detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
- quality paperback — a softbound book that is usually larger and more expensive than a mass market paperback and is sold primarily in bookstores as a trade book.
- rainbow coalition — a political grouping together by several minority parties
- reality principle — the motivating force or mechanism by which the child, who has previously sought immediate gratification of all wishes, realizes that gratification must sometimes be deferred or forgone.
- satellite station — a radio or television station that receives programs from another station and rebroadcasts at a different wavelength.
- secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
- semi-permeability — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- split one's sides — to laugh very heartily
- split personality — multiple personality.
- sports facilities — places and things for doing sports
- stereolithography — a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.
- the little dipper — a small faint constellation, the brightest star of which is the Pole Star, lying 1° from the true celestial pole
- the neolithic age — the last part of the Stone Age, where metal tools became widespread
- the rail-splitter — Lincoln2
- to little purpose — with little (or no) result or effect; pointlessly
- tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
- unconventionality — disregard for convention; the state or quality of being inconsistent with customs, rules, etc.; originality.