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17-letter words containing d, i, r, t, y, e

  • duality principle — the principle that a mathematical duality exists under certain conditions.
  • electricity board — a company which supplies electricity
  • embroidery thread — a thread used for embroidery
  • ethinyloestradiol — Alternative form of ethinylestradiol.
  • extraordinary ray — the plane-polarized ray of light that does not obey the laws of refraction in a doubly refracting crystal
  • eyelet embroidery — a piece of embroidery decorated with such work
  • friend of dorothy — a male homosexual
  • haemorrhoidectomy — surgical removal of haemorrhoids
  • hairy-tailed mole — a blackish North American mole, Parascalops breweri, having a short, hairy tail.
  • heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
  • homeland security — national defence
  • hydroelectrically — Using hydroelectric power.
  • hydrotherapeutics — hydrotherapy.
  • hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
  • ideogrammatically — In terms of, or by means of, ideograms.
  • indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
  • indestructibility — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indian strawberry — a plant, Duchesnea indica, of the rose family, native to India, having yellow flowers and inedible fruit resembling strawberries.
  • 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.
  • inverted snobbery — the attitude of an inverted snob
  • irreproducibility — The quality of not being reproducible.
  • italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
  • jurisprudentially — In terms of jurisprudence.
  • kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
  • ladybird (beetle) — ladybug
  • latter-day saints — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • lead acid battery — A lead acid battery is a 12-volt battery for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles consisting of lead-acid cells in series.
  • lithium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound, LiOH, used to absorb carbon dioxide, especially in spacesuits.
  • majority decision — a decision supported by more than half the people involved
  • martha's vineyard — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. About 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
  • mentally impaired — with reduced or weakened mental capacity
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • naked singularity — an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole
  • ninety-day wonder — an officer commissioned in a branch of the armed forces after an unusually short training period, especially after a three-months officers' training course during World War II.
  • non-discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • nursery education — education provided at a school for young children, usually from three to five years old
  • online dictionary — a dictionary that is available on the Internet or World Wide Web and accessed through a Web browser using a computer or a mobile device, primarily by typing a query term into a search box on the site. Online dictionaries like Dictionary.com offer immediate, direct access through large databases to a word's spelling and meanings, plus a host of ancillary information, including its variant spellings, pronunciation, inflected forms, origin, and derived forms, as well as supplementary notes on matters of interest or concern about how the word is used: Some people think online dictionaries will make print dictionaries obsolete.
  • oyer and terminer — (in some U.S. states) any of various higher criminal courts.
  • parathyroidectomy — the excision of a parathyroid gland.
  • paratyphoid fever — Also called paratyphoid fever. an infectious disease, similar in some of its symptoms to typhoid fever but usually milder, caused by any of several bacilli of the genus Salmonella other than S. typhi.
  • partially sighted — unable to see properly so that even with corrective aids normal activities are prevented or seriously hindered
  • peridot of ceylon — a honey-colored tourmaline, used as a gem: not a true peridot.
  • pocket dictionary — a small portable dictionary
  • predatory pricing — If a company practises predatory pricing, it charges a much lower price for its products or services than its competitors in order to force them out of the market.
  • primary dentition — the deciduous dentition
  • primary education — junior, elementary schooling
  • production system — (programming)   A production system consists of a collection of productions (rules), a working memory of facts and an algorithm, known as forward chaining, for producing new facts from old. A rule becomes eligible to "fire" when its conditions match some set of elements currently in working memory. A conflict resolution strategy determines which of several eligible rules (the conflict set) fires next. A condition is a list of symbols which represent constants, which must be matched exactly; variables which bind to the thing they match and "<> symbol" which matches a field not equal to symbol. Example production systems are OPS5, CLIPS, flex.
  • proof of identity — a document or documents used to verify someone's identity
  • proprietary brand — a brand of product that is privately owned and controlled
  • pterygoid process — either of two long bony plates extending downwards from each side of the sphenoid bone within the skull
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