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17-letter words containing d, i, p, t

  • east grand rapids — a town in W central Michigan, near Grand Rapids.
  • ectoparasiticides — Plural form of ectoparasiticide.
  • electrodeposition — The deposition of a metal on a cathode during electrolysis; used as a method of purification.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • esprit d'escalier — clever repartee one thinks of too late
  • 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.
  • exceptional child — a gifted child
  • export-orientated — (of an industry, company, etc) mainly concerned with the export of goods or services
  • 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.
  • feint-ruled paper — writing paper with light horizontal lines printed across at regular intervals
  • field post office — a place to which mail intended for military units in the field is sent to be sorted and forwarded
  • garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
  • get one's wind up — to become (or be) nervous or alarmed
  • gold export point — an exchange rate at which it is as cheap to settle international accounts by exporting gold bullion as by buying bills of exchange
  • gold import point — an exchange rate at which it is as cheap to settle international accounts by importing gold bullion as by selling bills of exchange
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • 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.
  • hermaphrodite rig — jackass rig.
  • holding operation — a plan or procedure devised to prolong the existing situation
  • hydrotherapeutics — hydrotherapy.
  • hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
  • hypsilophodontids — Plural form of hypsilophodontid.
  • identity politics — political activity or movements based on or catering to the cultural, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, or social interests that characterize a group identity.
  • in/into disrepair — If something is in disrepair or is in a state of disrepair, it is broken or in bad condition.
  • 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.
  • indecent exposure — the intentional exposure of one's body's privates in a manner that gives offense against accepted or prescribed behavior.
  • indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
  • independent audit — an audit of a company conducted by accountants from an outside accounting firm (distinguished from internal audit).
  • independent axiom — in a set of axioms, one that cannot be proved by using the others in the set.
  • 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 rope-trick — the supposed Indian feat of climbing an unsupported rope
  • indicator species — See at indicator (def 6).
  • insulin-dependent — of or relating to the type of diabetes that mainly affects young people
  • 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.
  • interdependencies — the quality or condition of being interdependent, or mutually reliant on each other: Globalization of economies leads to an ever-increasing interdependence of countries.
  • 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.
  • internet provider — Internet Service Provider
  • 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.
  • interrupted screw — a screw having the thread interrupted in one or more places by longitudinal channels, as in the breech of a cannon or the lead screw of a lathe.
  • intradepartmental — Within a department.
  • irreproducibility — The quality of not being reproducible.
  • joined at the hip — friends: inseparable
  • 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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