17-letter words that end in al
- intragovernmental — Within a government.
- it's your funeral — If someone says to you 'It's your funeral', they think your decision or your actions will have bad consequences for you, but they are unwilling to interfere.
- iterated integral — a double integral that is evaluated by first integrating the integrand with respect to one variable with the second variable being held constant and then integrating the resulting function with respect to the second variable.
- karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
- kinetic potential — the kinetic energy minus the potential energy in a system obeying the principle of conservation of energy. Symbol: L.
- laryngopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and pharynx.
- lautenclavicymbal — a harpsichord with strings of gut rather than metal.
- lebesgue integral — an integral obtained by application of the theory of measure and more general than the Riemann integral.
- limousine liberal — a wealthy left-wing person
- mean proportional — (between two numbers a and b) a number x for which a/x = x/b : The number 3 is a mean proportional between 1 and 9.
- mechanoelectrical — Describing the production of electricity by mechanical motion; especially in a transducer.
- medicochirurgical — pertaining to medicine and surgery.
- molecular orbital — Physics, Chemistry. a wave function describing the state of a single electron in an atom (atomic orbital) or in a molecule (molecular orbital) the electron in that state.
- multi-directional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- multigenerational — of or relating to several generations, as of a family, or society: a multigenerational novel covering 300 years.
- multiple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of more than one variable and which requires for evaluation repetition of the integration process.
- nanotechnological — Of, pertaining to, or by means of nanotechnology.
- neuropathological — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from neuropathology, the pathology of nerve tissue.
- non-controversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- non-environmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
- non-institutional — of, relating to, or established by institution.
- non-instructional — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
- non-stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- nonconstitutional — of or relating to the constitution of a state, organization, etc.
- nondenominational — of or relating to a denomination or denominations.
- nord-ostsee kanal — German name of Kiel Canal.
- normal orthogonal — orthonormal.
- otolaryngological — Pertaining to otolaryngology.
- paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
- polar continental — a type of cold, dry air mass originating at high latitudes over land areas
- police procedural — a mystery novel, film, or television drama that deals realistically with police work.
- polyvinyl butyral — a white, water-insoluble, polyvinyl acetal made with butyraldehyde, used chiefly as an interlayer in the manufacture of safety glass.
- post-depositional — removal from an office or position.
- posttranslational — Genetics, Biochemistry. occurring after the synthesis of a polypeptide chain.
- pre-technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- prime ministerial — of or relating to the head of a parliamentary government
- pro-environmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
- procurator fiscal — In the Scottish legal system, the procurator fiscal is a public official who puts people on trial.
- pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
- pseudo-biological — pertaining to biology.
- pseudo-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- psychoeducational — designating or of psychological methods, as intelligence tests, used in evaluating learning ability
- put on a pedestal — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- quasiexperimental — (medicine) Describing a trial in which the assignment to a group is based upon an experimental condition.
- quasquicentennial — pertaining to or marking a period of 125 years.
- recurring decimal — Mathematics. repeating decimal.
- refuse a proposal — If an insurer refuses a proposal, it does not agree to underwrite a risk proposed by a potential client.
- repeating decimal — a decimal numeral that, after a certain point, consists of a group of one or more digits repeated ad infinitum, as 2.33333 …. or 23.0218181818 ….
- return of capital — A return of capital is a situation in which you receive back money that was previously invested.
- return on capital — A return on capital is any earnings that you receive from the capital that you have invested.