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17-letter words containing a, c, u, s, e, d

  • foundation course — A foundation course is a course that you do at some colleges and universities in order to prepare yourself for a longer or more advanced course.
  • fourfold purchase — a tackle that is composed of a rope passed through two fourfold blocks in such a way as to provide mechanical power in the ratio of 1 to 5 or 1 to 4, depending on whether hauling is done on the running or the standing block and without considering friction. Compare tackle (def 2).
  • gaucher's disease — a rare inherited disorder of fat metabolism that causes spleen and liver enlargement, abnormal fragility and pain of the bones, and progressive neurologic disturbances, leading to early death.
  • grande chartreuse — the Carthusian monastery at Grenoble, France: the chief monastery of the Carthusians until 1903.
  • half-round chisel — a cold chisel with a semicircular cutting edge used for making narrow channels
  • herbaceous border — A herbaceous border is a flower bed containing a mixture of plants that flower every year.
  • heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
  • hollandaise sauce — a sauce of egg yolks, butter, lemon juice, and seasonings.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • horseradish sauce — a piquant sauce made from horseradish root, vinegar, etc, and traditionally eaten in Britain with roast beef
  • household cavalry — (in Britain) cavalry units forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
  • hydrotherapeutics — hydrotherapy.
  • integrated course — a course that covers several subjects
  • lame-duck session — (formerly) the December to March session of those members of the U.S. Congress who were defeated for reelection the previous November.
  • magellanic clouds — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
  • mare fecunditatis — (Sea of Fertility) a dark plain in the fourth quadrant and extending into the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 160,000 sq. mi. (415,000 sq. km).
  • media access unit — (networking)   (MAU or Multistation Access Unit, MSAU) In a Token Ring network, a device to attach multiple network stations in a star topology, internally wired to connect the stations into a logical ring. The MAU contains relays to short out nonoperating stations. Multiple MAUs can be connected into a larger ring through their Ring In/Ring Out connectors.
  • medical insurance — a type of insurance intended to cover possible future medical expenses
  • metatungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H2W4O13
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • monkeygland sauce — a piquant sauce, made from tomatoes, ketchup, fruit chutney, garlic, spices, etc
  • muscle dysmorphia — a mental disorder primarily affecting males, characterized by obsessions about a perceived lack of muscularity, leading to compulsive exercising, use of anabolic steroids, etc. Compare body dysmorphic disorder.
  • musical interlude — an interval in a play, event or occasion during which music is played
  • mustard and cress — Mustard and cress is very young mustard plants and cress plants grown together and eaten in salad.
  • nuclear threshold — the point in war at which a combatant brings nuclear weapons into use
  • nursery education — education provided at a school for young children, usually from three to five years old
  • outside broadcast — An outside broadcast is a radio or television programme that is not recorded or filmed in a studio, but in another building or in the open air.
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • physical pendulum — any apparatus consisting of a body of possibly irregular shape allowed to rotate freely about a horizontal axis on which it is pivoted (distinguished from simple pendulum).
  • potassium cyanide — a white, granular, water-soluble, poisonous powder, KCN, having a faint almondlike odor, used chiefly in metallurgy and photography.
  • pressurized cabin — the cabin of an aircraft in which the air has been pressurized
  • production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudo-biological — pertaining to biology.
  • pseudo-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • pseudo-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • pseudo-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • pseudo-moralistic — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
  • psychoeducational — designating or of psychological methods, as intelligence tests, used in evaluating learning ability
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • quadratic residue — a number x that is relatively prime to a given integer y and for which a number z exists whose square gives the same remainder as x when divided by y.
  • qualified success — If you describe something as a qualified success, you mean that it is only partly successful.
  • radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
  • rheumatic disease — any of a group of diseases of the connective tissue, of uncertain causes, including rheumatoid arthritis, gout, and rheumatic fever
  • search and rescue — Search and rescue operations involve looking for people who are lost or in danger, for example, after a war or a natural disaster, and bringing them back safely.
  • second lieutenant — an Army, Air Force, or Marine officer of the lowest commissioned rank. Compare ensign (def 4).
  • secondary product — a product that is not the main product of an industry; a by-product
  • secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • securities dealer — a person who buys and sells securities
  • semi-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
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