17-letter words that end in le
- abstract of title — a summary of the ownership of land, showing the original grant, conveyances, and any incumbrances
- air-transportable — that can be transported by aircraft: air-transportable equipment.
- api gravity scale — the American Petroleum Institute gravity scale: a universally accepted scale of the relative density of fluids that is used in fuel technology and is measured in degrees API. One degree API is equal to (141.5/d)–131.5, where d = relative density at 288.7K
- architect's table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- ballistic missile — a missile that has no wings or fins and that follows a ballistic trajectory when its propulsive power is discontinued
- banking principle — the principle that bank notes are a form of credit and should be issued freely in order to maintain an elastic currency.
- barber of seville — Italian Il barbiere di Siviglia. a comic opera (1816) by Gioacchino Rossini based on a comedy (1775) by Beaumarchais.
- binet-simon scale — a test comprising questions and tasks, used to determine the mental age of subjects, usually children
- blackboard jungle — a school or school system characterized by lack of discipline and by juvenile delinquency.
- board-and-shingle — a small dwelling with wooden walls and a shingle roof
- bombardier beetle — any of various small carabid beetles of the genus Brachinus, esp B. crepitans of Europe, which defend themselves by ejecting a jet of volatile fluid
- cellophane noodle — a stringlike, transparent noodle used esp. in East Asian cooking
- charles de gaulle — Charles André Joseph Marie [chahrlz ahn-drey joh-zuh f muh-ree;; French sharl ahn-drey zhoh-zef ma-ree] /tʃɑrlz ˈɑn dreɪ ˈdʒoʊ zəf məˈri;; French ʃarl ɑ̃ˈdreɪ ʒoʊˈzɛf maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1890–1970, French general and statesman: president 1959–69.
- churchyard beetle — a blackish nocturnal ground beetle, Blaps mucronata, found in cellars and similar places
- circular triangle — a triangle in which each side is the arc of a circle
- citric acid cycle — Krebs cycle.
- closing-down sale — a sale held to clear stock from a shop that is ceasing to operate
- collecting tubule — the part of a nephron that collects the urine from the distal convoluted tubule and discharges it into the pelvis of the kidney.
- congo-brazzaville — a republic in W Central Africa: formerly the French colony of Middle Congo, part of French Equatorial Africa, it became independent in 1960; consists mostly of equatorial forest, with savanna and extensive swamps; drained chiefly by the Rivers Congo and Ubangi. Official language: French. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: franc. Capital: Brazzaville. Pop: 4 492 689 (2013 est). Area: 342 000 sq km (132 018 sq miles)
- contingency table — an array having the frequency of occurrence of certain events in each of a number of samples
- contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
- convoluted tubule — a portion of the nephron in the kidney that functions in concentrating urine and in maintaining salt, water, and sugar balance.
- coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
- dead man's handle — a safety switch on a piece of machinery, such as a train, that allows operation only while depressed by the operator
- deathwatch beetle — a beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum, whose woodboring larvae are a serious pest. The adult produces a rapid tapping sound with its head that was once popularly supposed to presage death
- discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
- down the plughole — If you say that something has gone down the plughole, you mean that it has failed or has been lost or wasted.
- downwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- downwardly-mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- drop one's bundle — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
- duality principle — the principle that a mathematical duality exists under certain conditions.
- emotional cripple — someone who is unable to feel or show true emotion and so cannot form relationships with other people
- exclusionary rule — a legal rule that evidence obtained illegally, as from a search without a warrant, may not be introduced at trial
- fouquier-tinville — Antoine Quentin [ahn-twan kahn-tan] /ɑ̃ˈtwan kɑ̃ˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1747?–95, French revolutionist: prosecutor during the Reign of Terror.
- four-stroke cycle — A four-stroke cycle is the cycle of engine operation which requires four strokes of the piston: for induction, compression, ignition, and exhaust.
- from pole to pole — throughout the entire world
- gause's principle — the principle that similar species cannot coexist for long in the same ecological niche
- geographical mile — nautical mile.
- go the extra mile — make an exceptional effort
- graafian follicle — one of the small vesicles containing a developing ovum in the ovary of a mammal.
- green june beetle — a large, greenish scarab beetle, Cotinis nitida, of the southern U.S.
- hairy-tailed mole — a blackish North American mole, Parascalops breweri, having a short, hairy tail.
- hamiltonian cycle — Hamiltonian problem
- hammer and sickle — the emblem of the Soviet Union, adopted in 1923 and consisting of an insignia of a hammer with its handle across the blade of a sickle and a star above.
- hit for the cycle — any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
- huygens principle — the principle that all points on a wave front of light are sources of secondary waves and that surfaces tangential to these waves define the position of the wave front at any point in time.
- hypodermic needle — a hollow needle used to inject solutions subcutaneously.
- indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
- instance variable — (programming) In object-oriented programming, one of the variables of a class template which may have a different value for each object of that class. Instance variables hold the state of an object.
- inter-convertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
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