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17-letter words containing a, p, n, g

  • clinicopathologic — of or relating to the combined study of disease symptoms and pathology.
  • closed-captioning — (of a television program, film, or video) distributed with synchronized transcription of speech and written descriptions of other relevant audio elements, as for the hearing-impaired, that are visible only when the option to display them is selected. Abbreviation: CC.
  • cognitive therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to change the way he or sees the world and himself or herself: used particularly to treat depression
  • come to handgrips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • communication gap — a lack of communication
  • compensated grade — a grade that has been reduced along a curve to offset the additional resistance due to the curve.
  • complex conjugate — the complex number whose imaginary part is the negative of that of a given complex number, the real parts of both numbers being equal
  • complex-conjugate — one of a group of conjugate words.
  • computer language — programming language
  • consumer sampling — a research technique in which targeted consumers are polled or tested for their receptiveness to a product or service
  • contracting party — a person, company, etc, entering into a legal contract
  • counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
  • counterpropaganda — propaganda to offset or nullify unfriendly or enemy propaganda.
  • creeping elegance — Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become elegant past the point of diminishing return, something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the Real World. See also creeping featurism, second-system effect, tense.
  • dagestan republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
  • departmentalizing — Present participle of departmentalize.
  • dephlogisticating — Present participle of dephlogisticate.
  • development grant — a grant awarded, esp by a government, to a person or company in order to fund the development of a new product
  • digital footprint — one's unique set of digital activities, actions, and communications that leave a data trace on the Internet or on a computer or other digital device and can identify the particular user or device: Our online browsing habits are part of our passive digital footprint, created without our consent or knowledge, but our active digital footprint, especially on social media, can more easily be managed. Compare footprint (def 4).
  • disaster planning — disaster recovery
  • dog and pony show — an elaborate sales, advertising, or publicity presentation or campaign.
  • drilling platform — a structure, either fixed to the sea bed or mobile, which supports the machinery and equipment (the drilling rig), together with the stores, required for digging an offshore oil well
  • east grand rapids — a town in W central Michigan, near Grand Rapids.
  • echoencephalogram — a graphic record produced by an echoencephalograph.
  • ectopic pregnancy — the development of a fertilized ovum outside the uterus, as in a Fallopian tube.
  • egyptian brackets — (programming, humour)   A humourous term for K&R indent style, referring to the "one hand up in front, one down behind" pose which popular culture inexplicably associates with Egypt.
  • election campaign — efforts to promote party or candidate to voters
  • elliptical spring — An elliptical spring is a spring that is made from two springs in the shape of elongated ovals laid cut in half and back-to-back.
  • employment agency — company: finds jobs
  • empty element tag — tag
  • enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
  • escaping tendency — a property of a gas, related to its partial pressure, that expresses its tendency to escape or expand, given by d(log ef) = dμ/ RT, where μ is the chemical potential, R the gas constant, and T the thermodynamic temperature
  • ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
  • experience rating — Experience rating is a method of adjusting the premium for a risk based on past loss experience for that risk compared to loss experience for an average risk.
  • falling diphthong — a diphthong in which the first of the two apparent vocalic elements is of greater stress or sonority and the second is of lesser stress or sonority, as in (ī), (ou), (oi), etc.
  • fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
  • fingerling potato — a finger-shaped potato
  • fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
  • full linear group — the group of all nonsingular linear transformations mapping a finite-dimensional vector space into itself.
  • galapagos islands — a group of 15 islands in the Pacific west of Ecuador, of which they form a province: discovered (1535) by the Spanish; main settlement on San Cristóbal. Pop: 18 640 (2001). Area: 7844 sq km (3028 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • gause's principle — the principle that similar species cannot coexist for long in the same ecological niche
  • general paralysis — a syphilitic brain disorder characterized by chronic inflammation and degeneration of cerebral tissue resulting in mental and physical deterioration.
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
  • gnu privacy guard —
  • go on the rampage — If people go on the rampage, they rush about in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
  • golf ball printer — IBM 2741
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
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