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17-letter words containing e, y, l, s, n

  • naked singularity — an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole
  • national assembly — the body constituted by the French Third Estate in June 1789 after the calling of the Estates General. It was dissolved in Sept 1791 to be replaced by the new Legislative Assembly
  • national security — defence of a country
  • naval observatory — an astronomical observatory located in Washington, D.C., operated by the U.S. government, and responsible for the U.S. time service.
  • negative catalyst — an inhibitor.
  • neuilly-sur-seine — a suburb of Paris, in N France: treaty of peace (1919) between the Allies and Bulgaria. 66,095.
  • neurophysiologist — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neuropsychologist — A neurologist or psychologist whose speciality is neuropsychology.
  • new orleans style — a style of jazz developed in New Orleans early in the 20th century, influenced by blues, ragtime, marching band music, and minstrelsy and marked by polyphonic group improvisation.
  • new scotland yard — See under Scotland Yard (def 1).
  • nial systems ltd. — Distributors of Q'NIAL. Address: Ottawa Canada. Telephone: Canada (613) 234 4188.
  • nightshade family — the plant family Solanaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, and vines having alternate, simple or pinnate leaves, conspicuous flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including belladonna, eggplant, nightshade, peppers of the genus Capsicum, petunia, potato, tobacco, and tomato.
  • non-stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • nonsense syllable — any of numerous letter combinations without meaning, used in learning experiments.
  • nuclear chemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with nuclear reactions
  • off one's trolley — trolley car.
  • olympic peninsula — a large peninsula of W Washington
  • paternalistically — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
  • paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
  • penalty shoot-out — In football, a penalty shoot-out is a way of deciding the result of a game that has ended in a draw. Players from each team try to score a goal in turn until one player fails to score and their team loses the game.
  • personal property — an estate or property consisting of movable articles both corporeal, as furniture or jewelry, or incorporeal, as stocks or bonds (distinguished from real property).
  • personality clash — friction between two people who have different personalities or points of view
  • phenyl isocyanate — a liquid reagent, C 7 H 5 NO, having an unpleasant, irritating odor: used chiefly for identifying alcohols and amines.
  • physical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury by means of physical agents, as manipulation, massage, exercise, heat, or water.
  • physical pendulum — any apparatus consisting of a body of possibly irregular shape allowed to rotate freely about a horizontal axis on which it is pivoted (distinguished from simple pendulum).
  • play with oneself — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • point reyes lilac — a prostrate shrub, Ceanothus gloriosus, of southern California, having leathery, roundish leaves and purplish or deep-blue flowers.
  • polystyrene chips — small pieces of polystyrene used for insulating or packing
  • postal stationery — an envelope, postal card, wrapper, or aérogramme, with the stamp printed directly on the paper.
  • power supply unit — (hardware)   (PSU) An electronic module that converts high voltage (110 or 240 VAC) alternating current mains electricity into smoothed direct current at the various differnt voltages required by the motherboard; internal peripheral devices, cheifly storage devices: hard disks, CD or DVD, floppy disks and external connections such as USB. A PSU needs a high enough power output rating to supply all the devices connected to it and should output as little as possible electrical noise, both on the output wires and as electromagnetic radiation. See also uninterruptable power supply.
  • professional army — an army of trained soldiers
  • protocol analyser — (communications, hardware, networking, testing, tool)   Any device that captures and interprets the network traffic between two or more connected computer systems. The traffic can then be decoded so that it is possible to see what processes are occurring. By examining the flow of traffic, protocol analysers can be used to find out where problems (such as bottlenecks or the failure of a network device) are on a LAN. Advanced protocol analysers can also provide statistics on the traffic that can help to identify trends that may in future lead to further problems with the network.
  • psychoeducational — designating or of psychological methods, as intelligence tests, used in evaluating learning ability
  • publicity-seeking — eager to attract publicity
  • purely and simply — You use purely and simply to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the only thing involved.
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • quality assurance — a system for ensuring a desired level of quality in the development, production, or delivery of products and services: Quality assurance for nursing homes begins with a set of standards. Abbreviation: QA.
  • quality newspaper — a more serious newspaper which gives detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
  • queensberry rules — the code of rules followed in modern boxing, requiring the use of padded gloves, rounds of three minutes, and restrictions on the types of blows allowed
  • recrystallization — to become crystallized again.
  • sable island pony — a variety of wild pony found on Sable Island, Nova Scotia
  • say the unsayable — to express an opinion thought to be too controversial to mention
  • scentless mayweed — a similar and related plant, Matricaria maritima, with scentless leaves
  • secondary glazing — insulation by means of a second pane of glass, or a sheet of plastic: a simple form of double glazing
  • secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • secondary sealing — Secondary sealing is a system of wiper seals used in floating roof tanks.
  • secretary-general — the head or chief administrative officer of a secretariat.
  • semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
  • sensory paralysis — impairment or loss of sensation in a part or area of the body
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