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17-letter words containing f, d, n

  • pseudo-scientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • put in a word for — to make favourable mention of (someone); recommend
  • queen of puddings — a pudding made of moist but firm breadcrumb and custard mixture topped with jam and meringue
  • receding forehead — a forehead which slopes backwards
  • reduction formula — a formula, such as sin (90° ± A) = cos A, expressing the values of a trigonometric function of any angle greater than 90° in terms of a function of an acute angle
  • reformed spelling — a revised orthography intended to simplify the spelling of English words, especially to eliminate unpronounced letters, as by substituting thru for through, tho for though, slo for slow, etc.
  • road-fund licence — a licence showing that the tax payable in respect of a motor vehicle has been paid
  • russian wolfhound — borzoi.
  • sacrificial anode — Chemistry. an anode that is attached to a metal object subject to electrolysis and is decomposed instead of the object.
  • san andreas fault — an active strike-slip fault in W United States, extending from San Francisco to S California and forming the on-land portion of the western margin of the North American Plate.
  • sanitary landfill — landfill.
  • sawed-off shotgun — rifle with a short barrel
  • scientific method — a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.
  • self-acknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • self-administered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
  • self-aggrandizing — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
  • self-commendation — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
  • self-condemnation — the act of condemning.
  • self-conditioning — Also called operant conditioning, instrumental conditioning. a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.
  • self-depreciating — self-deprecating.
  • self-dissociation — an act or instance of dissociating.
  • self-introduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
  • self-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
  • semi-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • single-sheet feed — a mechanism for feeding or taking single sheets of paper into a printer
  • sound effects man — a man who produces sounds artificially or reproduces them from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop. Such sound effects are used in plays, films, etc
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
  • southern studfish — See under studfish.
  • springfield rifle — a single-shot, breechloading .45-caliber rifle used by the U.S. Army from 1867 to 1893.
  • standard function — a subprogram provided by a translator that carries out a task, for example the computation of a mathematical function, such as sine, square root, etc
  • stannous fluoride — a white, crystalline powder, SnF 2 , slightly soluble in water: used as a source of fluorine in the prevention of dental caries, especially as a toothpaste additive.
  • store and forward — to store (information) in a computer for later forward transmission through a telecommunication network
  • stratford-on-avon — a town in SW Warwickshire, in central England, on the Avon River: birthplace and burial place of Shakespeare.
  • sulfonyl chloride — a colorless liquid, SO 2 Cl 2 , having a very pungent odor and corrosive to the skin and mucous membranes: used as a chlorinating or sulfonating agent.
  • surface condenser — a device condensing steam or vapor by passing it over a cool surface.
  • sustentation fund — a fund, esp in the Church of Scotland, to augment the support of ministers
  • take advantage of — any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end: the advantage of a good education.
  • the confederation — the original 13 states of the United States of America constituted under the Articles of Confederation and superseded by the more formal union established in 1789
  • the faint-hearted — people of a nervous disposition
  • the life and soul — a person regarded as the main source of merriment and liveliness
  • the sound of mull — the water that separates the island of Mull from the mainland of Scotland
  • thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
  • traffic diversion — a special route arranged for traffic to follow when the normal route cannot be used
  • trapdoor function — a function defined from data by means of a mathematical procedure in such a way that it is easy to obtain the function when the data are known, but when the procedure and data are not known it becomes very difficult to determine the original data: used in cryptography, where the data are the characters of the plain text, or message, and the trapdoor function is the cryptogram.
  • tree of knowledge — the tree whose fruit Adam and Eve tasted in disobedience of God: Gen. 2, 3
  • twelfth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1804, providing for election of the president and vice president by the electoral college: should there be no majority vote for one person, the House of Representatives (one vote per state) chooses the president and the Senate the vice president.
  • unclassified road — a road that has not been given a grade because it is of a basic standard
  • under the sign of — during that portion of the year when the sun is passing through and thus subject to the influence of (a specified sign of the zodiac)
  • unlawful wounding — an offence committed when a person maliciously wounds another person
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