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17-letter words that end in ce

  • employment office — any of a number of government offices established to collect and supply to the unemployed information about job vacancies and to employers information about availability of prospective workers
  • fair market price — the price of something at which both a seller and a buyer are willing to strike a deal.
  • farmers' alliance — an informal name for various regional political organizations that farmers established in the 1880s and that led to the formation of the Peoples' party in 1891–92.
  • field post office — a place to which mail intended for military units in the field is sent to be sorted and forwarded
  • field sales force — a team of people selling a product or service in the field as opposed to over the telephone, etc
  • finite difference — difference (def 9c).
  • first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
  • forensic evidence — evidence obtained by the use of science, for example DNA evidence, etc
  • freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
  • general insurance — insurance (such as house insurance and car insurance) that does not insure someone's life
  • guilty conscience — Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
  • hall of residence — Halls of residence are buildings with rooms or flats, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the term.
  • hollandaise sauce — a sauce of egg yolks, butter, lemon juice, and seasonings.
  • horseradish sauce — a piquant sauce made from horseradish root, vinegar, etc, and traditionally eaten in Britain with roast beef
  • huygens' eyepiece — a telescope eyepiece consisting of two planoconvex lenses separated by a distance equal to half the sum of their focal lengths, which are in the ratio of three to one, and oriented so that their curved surfaces face the incident light
  • in someone's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
  • incendiary device — a bomb that is designed to start fires
  • indirect evidence — circumstantial evidence.
  • induction furnace — a type of electric furnace used for melting a charge of scrap by the heat produced by its own electrical resistance.
  • inertial guidance — a guidance system for an aerospace vehicle, in which self-contained devices determine the vehicle's course on the basis of the directions and magnitudes of the accelerations it undergoes in flight.
  • invisible balance — the difference in value between total exports of services plus payment of property incomes from abroad and total imports of services plus payment abroad of property incomes
  • jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
  • keep your balance — If you keep your balance, for example when standing in a moving vehicle, you remain steady and do not fall over. If you lose your balance, you become unsteady and fall over.
  • kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
  • key man insurance — Key man insurance is an insurance policy taken out by a small company on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss.
  • key-man assurance — an assurance policy taken out, esp by a small company, on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss
  • kitchen appliance — a machine intended for use in the kitchen, such as a fridge or a food processor
  • lettre de creance — letter of credit.
  • limestone lettuce — a variety of lettuce derived from Bibb lettuce.
  • 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.
  • luggage insurance — insurance against the loss of luggage while travelling
  • luminous exitance — the ability of a surface to emit light expressed as the luminous flux per unit area at a specified point on the surface
  • magnetizing force — that part of the magnetic induction that is determined at any point in space by the current density and displacement current at that point independently of the magnetic or other physical properties of the surrounding medium. Symbol: H.
  • magnetoresistance — a change in the electrical resistance of a material upon exposure to a magnetic field.
  • make a difference — have a significant impact
  • marriage guidance — counselling for married couples
  • master of science — a master's degree given usually in a specific branch of the natural sciences, mathematics, or technology.
  • materials science — the study of the characteristics and uses of various materials, as glass, plastics, and metals.
  • medical insurance — a type of insurance intended to cover possible future medical expenses
  • mexican hat dance — a dance performed by couples, consisting of eight measures during which the dancers kick out each foot alternately, followed by eight more measures during which they swing around with interlocking arms.
  • mileage allowance — the number of miles allowed to be travelled on a rented vehicle such as a car during the period it is rented or leased
  • monkeygland sauce — a piquant sauce, made from tomatoes, ketchup, fruit chutney, garlic, spices, etc
  • moon and sixpence — a novel (1919) by W. Somerset Maugham.
  • morphic resonance — the idea that, through a telepathic effect or sympathetic vibration, an event or act can lead to similar events or acts in the future or an idea conceived in one mind can then arise in another
  • mutual inductance — the ratio of the electromotive force in one of two circuits to the rate of change of current in the other circuit.
  • on the off chance — the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all.
  • on the off-chance — If you do something on the off-chance, you do it because you hope that it will succeed, although you think that this is unlikely.
  • orfeo ed euridice — an opera (1762), with music by Christoph Willibald von Gluck.
  • parted per tierce — tierced.
  • passive obedience — unquestioning obedience to authority
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