17-letter words containing len
- acetylene welding — a type of welding that uses an acetylene torch
- allende meteorite — a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite that fell over northern Mexico in 1969: one of the largest recorded falls of a stony meteorite.
- ambivalent sexism — a theory that sexism toward women is multidimensional, one form (hostile sexism) reflecting negative views of women who challenge traditional gender roles, and the other form (benevolent sexism) reflecting positive views of women who conform to these roles.
- ammonium selenate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, (NH 4) 2 SeO 4 , used as a mothproofing agent.
- base lending rate — a minimum interest rate on which financial institutions base the rates they use for lending
- benevolent sexism — a theory that sexism toward women is multidimensional, one form (hostile sexism) reflecting negative views of women who challenge traditional gender roles, and the other form (benevolent sexism) reflecting positive views of women who conform to these roles.
- buttock-clenching — making one tighten the buttocks through extreme fear or embarrassment
- chloronaphthalene — either of two isomeric naphthalene compounds containing one chlorine atom.
- companionableness — The state or quality of being companionable.
- counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
- diethylene glycol — a syrupy colorless liquid, C 4 H 10 O 3 , used as a solvent for cellulose nitrate and as a fabric softener.
- diphenylacetylene — tolan.
- discreditableness — Quality of being discreditable.
- dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
- domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
- equivalence class — (mathematics) An equivalence class is a subset whose elements are related to each other by an equivalence relation. The equivalence classes of a set under some relation form a partition of that set (i.e. any two are either equal or disjoint and every element of the set is in some class).
- equivalent weight — the weight of an element or compound that will combine with or displace 8 grams of oxygen or 1.007 97 grams of hydrogen
- haitian solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Solenodon paradoxus, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
- helen keller mode — 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.e. accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into deep space. (Unfair to the real Helen Keller, whose success at learning speech was triumphant.) See also go flatline, catatonic. 2. On IBM PCs under MS-DOS, refers to a specific failure mode in which a screen saver has kicked in over an ill-behaved application which bypasses the very interrupts the screen saver watches for activity. Your choices are to try to get from the program's current state through a successful save-and-exit without being able to see what you're doing, or to re-boot the machine. This isn't (strictly speaking) a crash.
- hornblende schist — a variety of schist containing needles of hornblende that lie in parallel planes.
- ignoratio elenchi — the fallacy of offering proof irrelevant to the proposition in question.
- impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
- inconceivableness — The quality of being inconceivable.
- indefatigableness — The state of being indefatigable.
- indescribableness — The quality of being indescribable.
- indispensableness — The characteristic of being indispensable; indispensability.
- inexhaustibleness — The quality of being inexhaustible.
- insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
- irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
- kerguelen islands — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
- knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
- leninsk-kuznetski — a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia.
- methylnaphthalene — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 0 , whose alpha isomer, a colorless liquid, is used in determining cetane numbers.
- millennial church — the church of the Shakers.
- millennium bridge — a steel bridge for pedestrians over the River Thames linking the City of London at St Paul's Cathedral with the Tate Modern Gallery at Bankside: it has a span of 325 m (1056 ft)
- objectionableness — The quality of being objectionable.
- pentylenetetrazol — a white, crystalline, bitter-tasting, water-soluble powder, C 6 H 1 0 N 4 , used as a respiratory and circulatory stimulant, especially in the treatment of barbiturate poisoning, and to induce a convulsive state in the treatment of certain mental diseases.
- perchloroethylene — tetrachloroethylene.
- postmillennialism — the doctrine or belief that the second coming of Christ will follow the millennium.
- reduce to silence — If someone or something reduces you to silence, they make you feel so upset or confused that you cannot speak.
- silent revolution — a social or political revolution that takes place with little warning and without great fuss or unrest
- slenderness ratio — aspect ratio (def 4a).
- slenderness-ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the span of an airfoil to its mean chord.
- socratic elenchus — the drawing out of the consequences of a position in order to show them to be contrary to some accepted position
- stolen generation — Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in institutions or fostered by White families between 1910 and 1970
- thabana-ntlenyana — a mountain in Lesotho: the highest peak of the Drakensberg Mountains. Height: 3482 m (11 425 ft)
- the silent screen — silent films, considered as a whole
- till eulenspiegel — a legendary German peasant of the 14th century whose practical jokes yielded many stories.
- trichloroethylene — a colorless, poisonous liquid, C 2 HCl 3 , used chiefly as a degreasing agent for metals and as a solvent, especially in dry cleaning, for fats, oils, and waxes. Abbreviation: TCE.
- uncomfortableness — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
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