17-letter words containing g, r, e, n, c, u
- grande chartreuse — the Carthusian monastery at Grenoble, France: the chief monastery of the Carthusians until 1903.
- greenhouse effect — an atmospheric heating phenomenon, caused by short-wave solar radiation being readily transmitted inward through the earth's atmosphere but longer-wavelength heat radiation less readily transmitted outward, owing to its absorption by atmospheric carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and other gases; thus, the rising level of carbon dioxide is viewed with concern.
- greenland current — the ocean current flowing clockwise around S Greenland.
- ground connection — the conductor used to establish a ground.
- guglielmo marconi — Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
- housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
- hurricane warning — a storm warning given for winds with speeds exceeding 63 knots (72 mph, 32 m/sec) when the source of the winds is a tropical cyclone.
- huygens principle — the principle that all points on a wave front of light are sources of secondary waves and that surfaces tangential to these waves define the position of the wave front at any point in time.
- in the background — behind the focus of attention
- inertial guidance — a guidance system for an aerospace vehicle, in which self-contained devices determine the vehicle's course on the basis of the directions and magnitudes of the accelerations it undergoes in flight.
- integral calculus — the branch of mathematics that deals with integrals, especially the methods of ascertaining indefinite integrals and applying them to the solution of differential equations and the determining of areas, volumes, and lengths.
- integral function — an entire function.
- integrated course — a course that covers several subjects
- lago de nicaragua — Spanish name of Lake Nicaragua.
- ligurian republic — the republic in NW Italy set up by Napoleon in 1797, incorporated into France in 1805, and united with the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1814.
- luggage insurance — insurance against the loss of luggage while travelling
- management course — a course provided by an educational establishment such as a university, which teaches skills concerning the management of a company, business, etc
- marriage guidance — counselling for married couples
- mercury poisoning — illness caused by exposure to mercury
- multiple cropping — the use of the same field for two or more crops, whether of the same or of different kinds, successively during a single year.
- neurobiologically — In terms of or by means of neurobiology.
- neuropathological — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from neuropathology, the pathology of nerve tissue.
- neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
- neuropsychologist — A neurologist or psychologist whose speciality is neuropsychology.
- newspaper cutting — clipping from a news publication
- norwegian current — an ocean current formed from the terminus of the North Atlantic Current, flowing N along the Norwegian coast into the Barents Sea.
- numbering machine — a handheld device for stamping numbers onto objects
- organ-pipe cactus — a treelike or columnar cactus, Lemaireocereus marginatus, of Mexico, having a central, erect spine surrounded by spreading spines in clusters of five to eight, and funnel-shaped, brownish-purple flowers.
- osculating circle — circle of curvature.
- overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
- performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
- phonological rule — an operation in generative phonology that substitutes one sound or class of sounds for another in a phonological derivation.
- picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
- pre-configuration — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- prescription drug — medication available only on doctor's instruction
- 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.
- recreation ground — an open space for public recreation, esp one in a town, with swings and slides, etc, for children
- recreational drug — drug taken for pleasure
- recruiting office — an office where staff are recruited, esp by the military
- recurring decimal — Mathematics. repeating decimal.
- regulated tenancy — (in Britain) the letting of a dwelling by a nonresident private landlord, usually at a registered fair rent, from which the landlord cannot evict the tenant without a possession order from a court
- returning officer — a public official appointed to conduct and preside at an election.
- sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
- squeegee merchant — a person who attempts to make money by squeegeeing the windscreens of cars that are stopped at traffic lights and then asking for payment
- stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
- subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
- surgical dressing — a dressing made of cotton, used for incisions made during surgery
- the witching hour — the hour at which witches are supposed to appear, usually midnight
- thermocoagulation — the coagulation of tissue by heat-producing high-frequency electric currents, used therapeutically to remove small growths or to create specific lesions in the brain.
- three-ring circus — a circus having three adjacent rings in which performances take place simultaneously.