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17-letter words that end in n

  • beyond redemption — If you say that someone or something is beyond redemption, you mean that they are so bad it is unlikely that anything can be done to improve them.
  • binary opposition — a relation between the members of a pair of linguistic items, as a pair of distinctive features, such that one is the absence of the other, as voicelessness and voice, or that one is at the opposite pole from the other, as stridency and mellowness.
  • biological weapon — a weapon which uses a biological agent to harm people and other living organisms
  • biotransformation — the metabolizing of some substance, esp. a drug, in the body
  • birth of a nation — an American film (1915), directed by D. W. Griffith.
  • block association — an association for the residents of a particular block in a neighbourhood to discuss and act on matters of common concern
  • blood transfusion — A blood transfusion is a process in which blood is injected into the body of a person who is badly injured or ill.
  • boat-billed heron — a nocturnal, tropical American wading bird (Cochlearius cochlearius) with a large, broad bill: it is the only member of a family (Cochleariidae) of wading birds
  • body modification — any method of permanently adorning the body, including tattooing and piercing
  • boeuf bourguignon — a casserole of beef, vegetables, herbs, etc, cooked in red wine
  • bohemian brethren — a Protestant Christian sect formed in the 15th century from various Hussite groups, which rejected oaths and military service and advocated a pure and disciplined spiritual life. It was reorganized in 1722 as the Moravian Church
  • bond immunization — immunization (def 2).
  • book depreciation — Book depreciation is depreciation in a company's internal financial records that is different from the amount that is used for taxes.
  • boolean operation — any operation in which each of the operands and the result take one of two values.
  • bowel obstruction — a blockage in the bowel
  • branch prediction — (processor, algorithm)   A technique used in some processors with instruction prefetch to guess whether a conditional branch will be taken or not and prefetch code from the appropriate location. When a branch instruction is executed, its address and that of the next instruction executed (the chosen destination of the branch) are stored in the Branch Target Buffer. This information is used to predict which way the instruction will branch the next time it is executed so that instruction prefetch can continue. When the prediction is correct (and it is over 90% of the time), executing a branch does not cause a pipeline break. Some later CPUs simply prefetch both paths instead of trying to predict which way the branch will go. An extension of the idea of branch prediction is speculative execution.
  • british columbian — of or relating to British Columbia or its inhabitants
  • budget resolution — a resolution adopted by both houses of the U.S. Congress setting forth, reaffirming, or revising the budget for the U.S. government for a fiscal year.
  • bureaucratization — to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
  • butternut pumpkin — a variety of pumpkin, eaten as vegetable
  • buyers' inflation — inflation in which rising demand results in a rise in prices.
  • by the same token — You use by the same token to introduce a statement that you think is true for the same reasons that were given for a previous statement.
  • caesarean section — A Caesarean or a Caesarean section is an operation in which a baby is lifted out of a woman's womb through an opening cut in her abdomen.
  • capital formation — the net additions to a capital stock in an accounting period
  • carboxyhemoglobin — a compound formed in the blood when carbon monoxide occupies the positions on the hemoglobin molecule normally taken by oxygen, resulting in cellular oxygen starvation
  • catastrophization — The act or process of catastrophizing.
  • celestial horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
  • chancery division — (in England) the Lord Chancellor's court, now a division of the High Court of Justice
  • chemical equation — a representation of a chemical reaction using symbols of the elements to indicate the amount of substance, usually in moles, of each reactant and product
  • chemical reaction — a process that involves changes in the structure and energy content of atoms, molecules, or ions but not their nuclei
  • chest compression — Chest compression is the act of applying pressure to someone's chest in order to help blood flow through the heart in an emergency situation.
  • chinese evergreen — a tropical Asian plant, Aglaonema modestum, of the arum family, often grown indoors, in water or soil, for its glossy green foliage.
  • chinese turkestan — the E part of the central Asian region of Turkestan: corresponds generally to the present-day Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China
  • chinese vermilion — pimento (def 3).
  • chord progression — movement from chord to chord
  • circular function — trigonometric function (def 1).
  • ciudad del carmen — a city in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche.
  • civil libertarian — a person who actively supports or works for the protection or expansion of civil liberties.
  • clairaut equation — a differential equation of the form y = xy prime; + f (y prime;).
  • clang association — the association made between two words because they sound similar; for example cling and ring
  • class distinction — a characteristic that is observed to differ based on social class
  • close corporation — a small private limited company
  • close punctuation — punctuation in which many commas, full stops, etc, are used
  • close the book on — to bring to a definite end
  • close the door on — rule out, exclude
  • club subscription — an amount of money that someone pays regularly in order to belong to a club
  • collateralization — The act or process of collateralizing.
  • collected edition — a comprehensive edition of the writings of a particular author.
  • colloquialization — The process or result of making colloquial.
  • colour separation — the division of a coloured original into cyan, magenta, yellow, and black so that plates may be made for print reproduction. Separation may be achieved by electronic scanning or by photographic techniques using filters to isolate each colour
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