18-letter words that end in l
- neuropsychological — Of or pertaining to neuropsychology, the relation or combination of brain and mind.
- non-circumstantial — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
- non-conversational — able or ready to converse; given to conversation.
- non-denominational — of or relating to a denomination or denominations.
- non-ecclesiastical — of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
- nonachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of three isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing nine chlorine atoms.
- nonconfrontational — Tending to deal with situations calmly and diplomatically; not aggressive or hostile.
- nonpharmacological — Not pharmacological.
- north college hill — a city in SW Ohio.
- northern transvaal — province of South Africa, in the N part: 47,599 sq mi (123,280 sq km); pop. 5,202,000; cap. Pietersburg
- not a hope in hell — If you say that someone has not got a hope in hell of doing something, you are emphasizing that they will not be able to do it.
- octachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing eight chlorine atoms.
- offensive material — any published or broadcast content (such as articles, photographs, films, or websites) that is likely to be upsetting, insulting, or objectionable to some or most people
- oriental scops owl — any of a group of small owls having ear tufts and a whistling call, especially Otus scops (Old World scops owl) and O. sunia (Oriental scops owl)
- out of one's skull — foolish; silly
- phantom withdrawal — the unauthorized removal of funds from a bank account using an automated teller machine
- photoelectric cell — photocell.
- play catch-up ball — to adjust one's style of play so as to make up for a lack of points, runs, etc.
- political football — a political issue that is continually debated but has not yet been resolved
- pollen mother cell — one of the mother cells that produce four microspores by meiosis.
- population control — a policy of attempting to limit the growth in numbers of a population, esp in poor or densely populated parts of the world, by programmes of contraception or sterilization
- postmaster general — the executive head of the postal system of a country.
- preparatory school — a private or parochial secondary school, especially one boarding its students and providing a college-preparatory education.
- principal diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
- production control — the planning and supervision of manufacturing activities to ensure that goods will be produced on time at the lowest possible cost.
- provincial council — (formerly) a council administering any of the New Zealand provinces
- pseudointellectual — a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
- psychopathological — the science or study of mental disorders.
- psychosociological — psychological and sociological
- quasi-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- ragtag and bobtail — the riffraff; rabble: The ragtag and bobtail of every nation poured into the frontier in search of gold.
- reinvent the wheel — (jargon) To design or implement a tool equivalent to an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time. This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use wooden rollers, and some kinds of wheel have to be reinvented many times before you get them right. On the third hand, people reinventing the wheel do tend to come up with the moral equivalent of a trapezoid with an offset axle.
- residential school — (in Canada) a boarding school maintained by the Canadian government for Indian and Inuit children from sparsely populated settlements
- richard p. gabriel — Richard Gabriel
- sao caetano do sul — a city in SE Brazil, SE of São Paulo.
- school for scandal — a comedy of manners (1777) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- secondary diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
- self-instructional — pertaining to or constituting learning materials and conditions arranged so that students can proceed to learn on their own with little or no supervision.
- semicircular canal — any of the three curved tubular canals in the labyrinth of the ear, associated with the sense of equilibrium.
- senior high school — a school attended after junior high school and usually consisting of grades 10 through 12.
- separate but equal — pertaining to a racial policy, formerly practiced in some parts of the United States, by which black people could be segregated if granted equal opportunities and facilities, as for education, transportation, or jobs.
- set priority level — (SPL) The way traditional Unix kernels implement mutual exclusion by running code at high interrupt priority levels and thus blocking lower level interrupts.
- shrubby cinquefoil — a small shrub, Potentilla fruticosa, of the rose family, native to the Northern temperate region, having pinnate leaves and numerous, showy, bright-yellow flowers.
- significance level — (in the statistical test of a hypothesis) the maximum probability of a Type I error for all distributions consistent with the null hypothesis.
- significant symbol — a verbal or nonverbal gesture, as a word or smile, that has acquired a conventionalized meaning.
- silvery cinquefoil — any of several plants belonging to the genus Potentilla, of the rose family, having yellow, red, or white five-petaled flowers, as P. reptans (creeping cinquefoil) of the Old World, or P. argentea (silvery cinquefoil) of North America.
- sociopsychological — of, relating to, or characterized by interrelated social and psychological factors.
- sociotechnological — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and technological factors.
- sole-charge school — a rural school with only one teacher
- stokely carmichael — Hoagland Howard [hohg-luh nd] /ˈhoʊg lənd/ (Show IPA), ("Hoagy") 1899–1981, U.S. songwriter and musician.