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17-letter words containing d, e, p, m

  • down in the dumps — If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable.
  • dramatis personae — (used with a plural verb) the characters in a play.
  • dynamically typed — dynamic typing
  • employee discount — When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount, they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
  • employer-provided — Employer-provided insurance is arranged or funded by the organization for which the policyholder works.
  • epidemiologically — With regard to epidemiology.
  • eupen and malmédy — a region of Belgium in Liège province: ceded by Germany in 1919. Pop: 29 372 (2004 est)
  • exemplary damages — law: fine imposed as a deterrent
  • export department — the department of a business concerned with the export of the business's goods or services
  • foucault pendulum — a pendulum that demonstrates the rotation of the earth by exhibiting an apparent change in its plane of oscillation.
  • four-eyed opossum — a small opossum, Metachirops (Philander) opossum, ranging from Mexico to Brazil, having a white spot above each eye.
  • frames per second — (unit)   (fps) The unit of measurement of the frame rate of a moving image.
  • freedom of speech — the right of people to express their opinions publicly without governmental interference, subject to the laws against libel, incitement to violence or rebellion, etc.
  • 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
  • gridiron pendulum — a clock pendulum having, as part of its shaft, an arrangement of brass and steel rods having different coefficients of expansion, such that the pendulum has the same length at any temperature.
  • hardware platform — a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.
  • hermaphrodite rig — jackass rig.
  • hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
  • humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
  • hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
  • hypodermic needle — a hollow needle used to inject solutions subcutaneously.
  • 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.
  • immunocompromised — having an impaired or compromised immune response; immunodeficient.
  • 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.
  • independent axiom — in a set of axioms, one that cannot be proved by using the others in the set.
  • interdepartmental — involving or existing between two or more departments: interdepartmental rivalry.
  • 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.
  • lambda expression — (mathematics)   A term in the lambda-calculus denoting an unnamed function (a "lambda abstraction"), a variable or a constant. The pure lambda-calculus has only functions and no constants.
  • liquid petrolatum — mineral oil.
  • load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
  • lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
  • mean piston speed — The mean piston speed is the distance traveled by a piston in a specified amount of time.
  • mean-spiritedness — the quality of being mean-spirited
  • meat and potatoes — If you refer to the meat and potatoes of something, you mean its most basic, simple, and essential parts.
  • meat-and-potatoes — fundamental; down-to-earth; basic: What are the meat-and-potatoes issues of the election?
  • medical procedure — A medical procedure is a medical treatment or operation.
  • mentally impaired — with reduced or weakened mental capacity
  • mercuric sulphide — a compound of mercury, usually existing as a black solid (metacinnabarite) or a red solid (cinnabar or vermilion), which is used as a pigment. Formula: HgS
  • metaperiodic acid — the crystalline compound HIO4, an oxyacid of iodine
  • method of payment — cash, credit card, cheque, etc.
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • microreproduction — a photographic image too small to be read by the unaided eye.
  • middle-age spread — an increase in bulk, especially in the waist and buttocks, associated with the onset of middle age and the body's decreasing ability to metabolize calories efficiently.
  • midmorning prayer — the third of the seven canonical hours; terce
  • midsagittal plane — a plane passing through the nasion when the skull is oriented in the Frankfurt horizontal.
  • mind-body problem — the problem of explaining the relation of the mind to the body.
  • mississippi delta — an area between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers in the northwest of the state of Mississippi; it is very flat and fertile
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