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17-letter words containing a, r, u, s, i

  • ductus arteriosis — a fetal blood vessel that connects the left pulmonary artery directly to the descending aorta, normally closing after birth.
  • dull as dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
  • dynamic insurance — Dynamic insurance is a type of insurance coverage where the policyholder can choose to increase benefits and premiums by a fixed percentage each year to offset the effects of inflation.
  • exclusionary rule — a legal rule that evidence obtained illegally, as from a search without a warrant, may not be introduced at trial
  • facts and figures — details; precise information
  • false bread-fruit — ceriman.
  • father substitute — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
  • financial futures — futures in a stock-exchange index, currency exchange rate, or interest rate enabling banks, building societies, brokers, and speculators to hedge their involvement in these markets
  • first triumvirate — the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, formed in 60 bc
  • fish out of water — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • fluvioterrestrial — (of animals) able to live in rivers and on land
  • 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.
  • fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
  • freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
  • functional isomer — any of several structural isomers that have the same molecular formula but with the atoms connected in different ways and therefore falling into different functional groups.
  • 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.
  • gause's principle — the principle that similar species cannot coexist for long in the same ecological niche
  • general insurance — insurance (such as house insurance and car insurance) that does not insure someone's life
  • geological survey — U.S. Government. a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1879, that studies the nation's water and mineral resources, makes topographic surveys, and classifies and leases public lands.
  • germanicus caesar — 15 b.c.–a.d. 19, Roman general.
  • get a rise out of — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • half-round chisel — a cold chisel with a semicircular cutting edge used for making narrow channels
  • haroun-al-raschid — Harun al-Rashid.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • heating apparatus — an apparatus that heats something
  • hepatitis b virus — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
  • heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
  • hippocampal gyrus — a convolution on the inner surface of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum, bordering the hippocampus.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • horseradish sauce — a piquant sauce made from horseradish root, vinegar, etc, and traditionally eaten in Britain with roast beef
  • horticulturalists — Plural form of horticulturalist.
  • 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.
  • hungarian goulash — goulash (def 1).
  • hydrotherapeutics — hydrotherapy.
  • hypochlorous acid — a weak, unstable acid, HOCl, existing only in solution and in the form of its salts, used as a bleaching agent and disinfectant.
  • iberian peninsula — Also called Iberian Peninsula. a peninsula in SW Europe, comprising Spain and Portugal.
  • immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
  • in double harness — in a harness for two animals pulling the same carriage, plow, etc.
  • in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
  • indian paintbrush — any of several semiparasitic plants belonging to the genus Castilleja, of the figwort family, as C. linariaefolia, of the western U.S.: the state flower of Wyoming.
  • indian restaurant — a restaurant that serves Indian food
  • industrial action — job action.
  • industrial design — the art that deals with the design problems of manufactured objects, including problems of designing such objects with consideration for available materials and means of production, of designing packages, bottles, etc., for manufactured goods, and of graphic design for manufactured objects, packages, etc.
  • industrial estate — industrial park.
  • industrial injury — an injury sustained by an employee of an industrial company during the course of their work
  • industrial school — a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; trade or vocational school.
  • industrial unrest — business: among employees
  • industrialisation — Alternative spelling of industrialization.
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