17-letter words containing a, d, o, r, n, m
- nondiscriminating — differentiating; analytical.
- nondiscrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
- nondiscriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- old norman french — Norman French (sense 1)
- one-time password — (security) (OTP) A security system that requires a new password every time a user authenticates themselves, thus protecting against an intruder replaying an intercepted password. OTP generates passwords using either the MD4 or MD5 hashing algorithms. The equivalent term "S/Key", developed by Bellcore, is a trademark of Telcordia Technologies, so the name OTP is used increasingly. See RFC 1760 - "The S/KEY One-Time Password System" and RFC 1938 - "A One-Time Password System".
- open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
- organized ferment — ferment (def 1).
- organized militia — a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.
- overdetermination — the concept that a single emotional symptom or event, as a dream or a slip of the tongue, may be caused by more than one factor.
- oyer and terminer — (in some U.S. states) any of various higher criminal courts.
- performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
- phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
- police department — A police department is an official organization which is responsible for making sure that people obey the law.
- pre-modifications — an act or instance of modifying.
- primary dentition — the deciduous dentition
- primary education — junior, elementary schooling
- product placement — Product placement is a form of advertising in which a company has its product placed where it can be clearly seen during a film or television programme.
- programming fluid — (jargon) (Or "wirewater") Coffee, unleaded coffee (decaffeinated), Cola, or any caffeinacious stimulant. Many hackers consider these essential for those all-night hacking runs.
- promenade concert — a concert at which some of the audience stand rather than sit
- put a dampener on — To put a dampener on something means the same as to put a damper on it.
- radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
- reduction formula — a formula, such as sin (90° ± A) = cos A, expressing the values of a trigonometric function of any angle greater than 90° in terms of a function of an acute angle
- rhodope mountains — a mountain range in SE Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula extending along the border between Bulgaria and Greece. Highest peak: Golyam Perelik (Bulgaria), 2191 m (7188 ft)
- ross and cromarty — a historic county in NW Scotland.
- rural development — social or economic activities or initiatives designed to improve the standard of living in areas far away from large towns or cities
- sacred roman rota — rota1 (def 3).
- samurai tradition — the body of customs, thought, practices, etc belonging to the samurai warrior caste of Japan
- sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
- smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
- smoke and mirrors — (used with a singular or plural verb) something that distorts or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful deception.
- sodium propionate — a transparent, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 3 H 5 NaO 2 , used in foodstuffs to prevent mold growth, and in medicine as a fungicide.
- sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
- south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- spiny-headed worm — any of a small group of endoparasites of the phylum Acanthocephala, as larvae parasitic in insects and crustaceans and as adults in various vertebrates.
- stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
- superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
- supreme commander — the military officer commanding all allied forces in a theater of war.
- sydenham's chorea — a form of chorea affecting children, often associated with rheumatic fever
- temporomandibular — of, relating to, or situated near the hinge joint formed by the lower jaw and the temporal bone of the skull.
- thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
- thermal radiation — electromagnetic radiation emitted by all matter above a temperature of absolute zero because of the thermal motion of atomic particles.
- third commandment — “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain”: third of the Ten Commandments.
- three-dimensional — having, or seeming to have, the dimension of depth as well as width and height.
- to read sb's mind — If you can read someone's mind, you know what they are thinking without them saying anything.
- tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
- tropical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of diseases occurring in the tropics.
- undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- urban development — the development or improvement of an urban area by building
- well-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties