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17-letter words containing a, p, e, n, d, r

  • deprofessionalize — to remove from professional control, influence, manipulation, etc.
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • development grant — a grant awarded, esp by a government, to a person or company in order to fund the development of a new product
  • dextroamphetamine — a dextrorotatory amphetamine, used to suppress appetite
  • diethyltryptamine — a synthetic derivative of tryptamine with hallucinogenic and psychotogenic effects. Abbreviation: DET.
  • disaster planning — disaster recovery
  • disproportionates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disproportionate.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • doberman pinscher — one of a German breed of medium-sized, short-haired dogs having a black, brown, or blue coat with rusty brown markings.
  • doorstep salesman — a door-to-door salesman
  • dramatis personae — (used with a plural verb) the characters in a play.
  • duality principle — the principle that a mathematical duality exists under certain conditions.
  • east grand rapids — a town in W central Michigan, near Grand Rapids.
  • enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
  • european standard — a specification to be used as a consistent rule or guideline in the manufacture or selling of a certain product or service traded within Europe
  • exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
  • export department — the department of a business concerned with the export of the business's goods or services
  • export-orientated — (of an industry, company, etc) mainly concerned with the export of goods or services
  • fancy dress party — a party at which the guests wear fancy dress
  • feint-ruled paper — writing paper with light horizontal lines printed across at regular intervals
  • frames per second — (unit)   (fps) The unit of measurement of the frame rate of a moving image.
  • front-end payment — a payment required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
  • garden apartments — a complex of low apartment buildings surrounded by lawn or landscaped areas
  • garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • grain of paradise — Usually, grains of paradise. one of the pungent, peppery seeds of an African plant, Aframomum melegueta, of the ginger family, used to strengthen cordials and in veterinary medicine.
  • great-grandnephew — a grandson of one's nephew or niece.
  • great-grandparent — a grandfather or grandmother of one's father or mother.
  • green peach aphid — an aphid, Myzus persicae, that is a pest of many fruit trees, ornamentals, and vegetables and a vector of certain viral plant diseases.
  • greensand process — a process for casting iron with sand not previously heated.
  • half-breadth plan — a diagrammatic plan of one half of the hull of a vessel divided lengthwise amidships, showing water lines, stations, diagonals, and bow and buttock lines.
  • handicap register — a list of the disabled people in its area that a local authority had a duty to compile under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
  • hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
  • holding operation — a plan or procedure devised to prolong the existing situation
  • hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
  • hypophrygian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from B to B, with the final on E.
  • i beg your pardon — You say 'Pardon?' or 'I beg your pardon?' or, in American English, 'Pardon me?' when you want someone to repeat what they have just said because you have not heard or understood it.
  • in/into disrepair — If something is in disrepair or is in a state of disrepair, it is broken or in bad condition.
  • incubation period — the period between infection and the appearance of signs of a disease.
  • indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
  • indian rope-trick — the supposed Indian feat of climbing an unsupported rope
  • indicator species — See at indicator (def 6).
  • integrated optics — an assembly of miniature optical elements of a size comparable to those used in electronic integrated circuits.
  • interdepartmental — involving or existing between two or more departments: interdepartmental rivalry.
  • interdisciplinary — combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study: The economics and history departments are offering an interdisciplinary seminar on Asia.
  • interrupt handler — (software)   A routine which is executed when an interrupt occurs. Interrupt handlers typically deal with low-level events in the hardware of a computer system such as a character arriving at a serial port or a tick of a real-time clock. Special care is required when writing an interrupt handler to ensure that either the interrupt which triggered the handler's execution is masked out (inhibitted) until the handler exits, or the handler is re-entrant so that multiple concurrent invocations will not interfere with each other. If interrupts are masked then the handler must execute as quickly as possible so that important events are not missed. This is often arranged by splitting the processing associated with the event into "upper" and "lower" halves. The lower part is the interrupt handler which masks out further interrupts as required, checks that the appropriate event has occurred (this may be necessary if several events share the same interrupt), services the interrupt, e.g. by reading a character from a UART and writing it to a queue, and re-enabling interrupts. The upper half executes as part of a user process. It waits until the interrupt handler has run. Normally the operating system is responsible for reactivating a process which is waiting for some low-level event. It detects this by a shared flag or by inspecting a shared queue or by some other synchronisation mechanism. It is important that the upper and lower halves do not interfere if an interrupt occurs during the execution of upper half code. This is usually ensured by disabling interrupts during critical sections of code such as removing a character from a queue.
  • intradepartmental — Within a department.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • jurisprudentially — In terms of jurisprudence.
  • kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
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