17-letter words that end in l
- community council — (in Scotland and Wales) an independent voluntary local body set up to attend to local interests and organize community activities
- compound interval — an interval that is greater than an octave, as a ninth or a thirteenth.
- computer terminal — a keyboard and computer monitor connected to a computer
- concurrent pascal — (language) An extension of a Pascal subset, Sequential Pascal, developed by Brinch Hansen in 1972-75. Concurrent Pascal was the first language to support monitors. It provided access to hardware devices through monitor calls and also supported processes and classes.
- consulate general — the office or residence of a consul general
- contact potential — the potential generated by the contact of two dissimilar materials in air or in a vacuum.
- defending counsel — a barrister who defends a client in a trial
- definite integral — the evaluation of the indefinite integral between two limits, representing the area between the given function and the x-axis between these two values of x
- denatured alcohol — ethanol rendered unfit for human consumption by the addition of a noxious substance, as in methylated spirits
- diacetone alcohol — a colorless, flammable liquid with a pleasant odor, C 6 H 12 O 2 : used as a solvent for lacquers, dyes, cellulose nitrate, and resins.
- diethylene glycol — a syrupy colorless liquid, C 4 H 10 O 3 , used as a solvent for cellulose nitrate and as a fabric softener.
- displacement hull — a hull that displaces a significant volume of water when under way.
- dissipation trail — a clear rift left behind an aircraft flying through a thin cloud layer.
- double pair royal — a set of four cards of the same denomination, worth 12 points.
- double quatrefoil — a charge having the form of a foil with eight leaves, used especially as the cadency mark of a ninth son.
- drive to the wall — to force into an awkward situation
- drive up the wall — to cause to become crazy or furious
- eastern transvaal — Mpumalanga
- electrolytic cell — any device in which electrolysis occurs
- electromechanical — Of, relating to, or denoting a mechanical device that is electrically operated.
- elementary school — primary school
- emotional capital — When people refer to the emotional capital of a company, they mean all the psychological assets and resources of the company, such as how the employees feel about the company.
- ethinyloestradiol — Alternative form of ethinylestradiol.
- executive council — (in Australia and New Zealand) a body consisting of ministers of the Crown presided over by the Governor or Governor-General that formally approves Cabinet decisions, etc
- fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
- fingertip control — control exercised through your fingertips, e.g. by touching a touchscreen
- flight of capital — When people lose confidence in a particular economy or market and withdraw their investment from it, you can refer to a flight of capital from that economy or market.
- fluvioterrestrial — (of animals) able to live in rivers and on land
- fore-and-aft sail — any of various sails, as jib-headed sails, gaff sails, lugsails, lateen sails, spritsails, staysails, and jibs, that do not set on yards and whose normal position, when not trimmed, is in a fore-and-aft direction amidships.
- four-star general — high-ranking military officer
- french provincial — noting, pertaining to, or resembling a style of furnishings and decoration originating in the provinces of France in the 18th century, derived from but less ornate than styles then current in Paris and featuring simply carved wood furniture, often with decorative curved moldings.
- fuzzy-wuzzy angel — any native of Papua New Guinea who assisted as a stretcher-bearer in World War II
- give someone hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- grand union canal — a canal in S England linking London and the Midlands: opened in 1801
- green-winged teal — a small freshwater duck, Anas crecca, of Eurasia and North America, having an iridescent green speculum in the wing.
- grey-faced petrel — a dark-coloured New Zealand petrel, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi
- grist to the mill — If you say that something is grist to the mill, you mean that it is useful for a particular purpose or helps support someone's point of view.
- half-round chisel — a cold chisel with a semicircular cutting edge used for making narrow channels
- harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- heavy mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
- henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
- high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
- histopathological — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
- historical school — a school of economists that arose in Germany in the 19th century in reaction to the principles of the classical economists, and that maintained that the factors making up an economy are variable and develop out of social institutions.
- historiographical — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
- ho chi minh trail — a network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.
- hydrotherapy pool — a pool of water used for hydrotherapy
- hyperbolic spiral — rθ = a, (where a is a constant)
- hyperintellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- improper integral — Also called infinite integral. a definite integral in which one or both of the limits of integration is infinite.