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17-letter words containing a, g, i, t, p, o

  • garage proprietor — a person who owns a commercial establishment in which motor vehicles are repaired, serviced, bought, and sold
  • garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
  • go-faster stripes — (jargon)   chrome. Mainstream in some parts of UK.
  • golf ball printer — IBM 2741
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
  • gupta corporation — (company)   The vendor of SQLWindows. Gupta Corporation provides application development and deployment software for client-server applications, consisting of a relational database, application development tools and transparent connectivity software. Gupta employs 400 people in 15 offices worldwide, including the United States, Europe and Asia. Gupta's 1993 fiscal year income was $5.6 million and their revenue was $56.1 million. Gupta sells client-server system components for networks of personal computers. Address: 1060 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Telephone: +1 (415) 321 9500. Fax: +1 (415) 321 5471.
  • haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
  • hermaphrodite rig — jackass rig.
  • histopathological — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
  • historiographical — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
  • holding operation — a plan or procedure devised to prolong the existing situation
  • homeopathic magic — magic that attempts to control the universe through the mimicking of a desired event, as by stabbing an image of an enemy in an effort to destroy him or her or by performing a ritual dance imitative of the growth of food in an effort to secure an abundant supply; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that similar actions produce similar results.
  • hope against hope — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
  • hospital gangrene — Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • hyperpigmentation — coloration, especially of the skin.
  • improper integral — Also called infinite integral. a definite integral in which one or both of the limits of integration is infinite.
  • improvement grant — a sum of money provided by a government, local authority, or public fund to finance the amelioration of a building, area of land, etc
  • inspector general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • inspector-general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • integer specratio — SPECint92
  • integrated optics — an assembly of miniature optical elements of a size comparable to those used in electronic integrated circuits.
  • intent to package — (Debian)   (ITP) A notice, posted to the Debian developer mailing list, announcing a developer's intent to make a new Debian package, including a brief description of the package and its license.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
  • lithostratigraphy — the study or character of stratified rocks based solely on their physical and petrographic features.
  • logical operation — Boolean operation.
  • magnetic monopole — a hypothetical very heavy particle with an isolated magnetic north pole or magnetic south pole.
  • micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
  • microphotographic — Relating to microphotography.
  • mongolian hot pot — a stewlike dish of sliced meat, seafood, and vegetables cooked together in hot broth, often in a clay pot, and seasoned with a hot sauce.
  • negative polarity — the grammatical character of a word or phrase, such as ever or any, that may normally be used only in a semantically or syntactically negative or interrogative context
  • neuropathological — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from neuropathology, the pathology of nerve tissue.
  • non-profit-making — A non-profit-making organization or charity is not run with the intention of making a profit.
  • non-reciprocating — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • on the pig's back — successful; established
  • on-street parking — parking (of a car, vehicle, etc) that is or is allowed to be done on a street
  • opening arguments — the statements or arguments provided by lawyers at the beginning of a trial
  • operating theatre — An operating theatre is a special room in a hospital where surgeons carry out medical operations.
  • optical computing — (hardware)   (Or "Optical Signal Processing") Operating on data represented using electromagnetic radiation, e.g. visible light, instead of the electrical signals used in a conventional electronic digital computer. Electronic digital computers are built from transistors. These form components that store data and logic gates that perform the low-level Boolean operations such as AND, OR and NOT that are the basis of all digital computation. The optical equivalent requires material with a non-linear refractive index such that light beams can interact with each other to perform the same Boolean operations. Though the photons that carry optical signals offer some theoretical advantages over the electrons that carry electronic signals, there are many practical problems that would have to be overcome before optical computing could compete in terms of cost, power and speed.
  • organ-pipe cactus — a treelike or columnar cactus, Lemaireocereus marginatus, of Mexico, having a central, erect spine surrounded by spreading spines in clusters of five to eight, and funnel-shaped, brownish-purple flowers.
  • pacific tree frog — a common terrestrial frog, Hyla regilla, of western North America, having a dark stripe along each side of the head.
  • palaeoclimatology — the study of climates of the geological past
  • parathyroid gland — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
  • passenger station — a station used by passengers
  • pate de foie gras — See under foie gras.
  • pathological liar — a person who tells lies frequently, with no rational motive for doing so.
  • perforation gauge — a marked ruler used to measure the number of perforations per unit length along the borders of a stamp.
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