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17-letter words containing d, a, c, p

  • fiddleback spider — brown recluse spider.
  • foucault pendulum — a pendulum that demonstrates the rotation of the earth by exhibiting an apparent change in its plane of oscillation.
  • fourfold purchase — a tackle that is composed of a rope passed through two fourfold blocks in such a way as to provide mechanical power in the ratio of 1 to 5 or 1 to 4, depending on whether hauling is done on the running or the standing block and without considering friction. Compare tackle (def 2).
  • frames per second — (unit)   (fps) The unit of measurement of the frame rate of a moving image.
  • gnu privacy guard —
  • 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.
  • grey-faced petrel — a dark-coloured New Zealand petrel, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi
  • gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
  • 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
  • heptanedioic acid — pimelic acid.
  • humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
  • 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.
  • hypochondriacally — In a hypochondriacal manner.
  • illegal procedure — a penalty assessed against the offensive team for a technical rules violation, as in assuming an illegal formation.
  • incandescent lamp — a lamp that emits light due to the glowing of a heated material, especially the common device in which a tungsten filament enclosed within an evacuated glass bulb is rendered luminous by the passage of an electric current through it.
  • incubation period — the period between infection and the appearance of signs of a disease.
  • indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
  • independence hall — the building in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • kaleidoscopically — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • landscape painter — artist who depicts natural scenery
  • landscaped garden — a garden that has been artistically designed
  • legal proceedings — court case
  • linear dependence — (in linear algebra) the property of a set of elements in a vector space in which at least one of the vectors in the set can be written as a linear combination of the others.
  • lipopolysaccaride — a molecule, consisting of lipid and polysaccharide components, that is the main constituent of the cell walls of Gram-negative bacteria
  • load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
  • medical procedure — A medical procedure is a medical treatment or operation.
  • metaperiodic acid — the crystalline compound HIO4, an oxyacid of iodine
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • moon and sixpence — a novel (1919) by W. Somerset Maugham.
  • mounted policeman — policemen who patrol on horseback
  • multidisciplinary — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
  • muscle dysmorphia — a mental disorder primarily affecting males, characterized by obsessions about a perceived lack of muscularity, leading to compulsive exercising, use of anabolic steroids, etc. Compare body dysmorphic disorder.
  • occipital condyle — a protrusion on the occipital bone of the skull that forms a joint with the first cervical vertebra, enabling the head to move relative to the neck.
  • paradoxical sleep — REM sleep.
  • paraperiodic acid — the crystalline compound H5IO6, an oxyacid of iodine
  • parathyroidectomy — the excision of a parathyroid gland.
  • paratungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H10W12O14
  • parted per tierce — tierced.
  • passive obedience — unquestioning obedience to authority
  • peaches and cream — If you say that a woman or a girl has a peaches and cream complexion, you mean that she has very clear, smooth, pale skin.
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • periodical cicada — seventeen-year locust.
  • peripheral device — peripheral
  • personal distance — personal space.
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