0%

17-letter words containing i, n, a, y

  • spiny-headed worm — any of a small group of endoparasites of the phylum Acanthocephala, as larvae parasitic in insects and crustaceans and as adults in various vertebrates.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • split personality — multiple personality.
  • spread your wings — if you spread your wings, you do something new and rather difficult or move to a new place, because you feel more confident in your abilities than you used to and you want to gain wider experience
  • st. crispin's day — October 25: anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt (1415).
  • st. swithin's day — July 15, superstitiously regarded as a day that, should it rain or be fair, will be followed by 40 consecutive days of like weather.
  • stationary engine — an engine mounted in a fixed position, as one used for driving generators, compressors, etc.
  • statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
  • stay of execution — If you are given a stay of execution, you are legally allowed to delay obeying an order of a court of law.
  • steamship company — a company which has a fleet of steamships
  • stray capacitance — undesired capacitance in equipment, occurring between the wiring, between the wiring and the chassis, or between components and the chassis
  • stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
  • superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • synchronistically — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
  • take into custody — to arrest
  • tenancy in common — a holding of property, usually real, by two or more persons with each owning an undivided share and with no right of survivorship.
  • terminal capacity — The terminal capacity is the volume which can be stored in a terminal (= building or area with tanks).
  • terminal velocity — Physics. the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity. the maximum velocity of a body falling through a viscous fluid.
  • ternary operation — an operation in a mathematical system by which three elements are combined to yield a single result.
  • tertiary consumer — a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.
  • the alpine valley — a straight fracture on the moon that cuts the Alps in two
  • the pennsylvanian — the Pennsylvanian period or rock system, equivalent to the Upper Carboniferous of Europe
  • to have it in you — If you have it in you, you have abilities and skills which you do not usually use and which only show themselves in a difficult situation.
  • to say nothing of — You use to say nothing of when you mention an additional thing which gives even more strength to the point you are making.
  • transatlantically — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
  • transitory action — an action that can be brought in any country regardless of where it originated
  • tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
  • tympanic membrane — eardrum.
  • uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • unconformity trap — An unconformity trap is a hydrocarbon trap where the closure is made by an unconformity (= a formation of rock layers which represents a gap in the geological record).
  • unconventionality — disregard for convention; the state or quality of being inconsistent with customs, rules, etc.; originality.
  • understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • unify corporation — (company)   Developers of the Unify relational database. At one time, before Sybase, they were a competitor of Oracle, et al.
  • unitary authority — (in the United Kingdom) a district administered by a single tier of local government, esp those districts of England that became administratively independent of the county councils in 1996–98
  • unproportionately — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
  • unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • utagawa kuniyoshi — original name Igusa Magosabwo. 1797–1861, Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e school, best known for his prints of warriors and landscapes
  • vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
  • vascular cylinder — stele (sense 3)
  • vertical analysis — the conversion of an organization's profits and losses into overall percentages
  • village community — an early form of community organization in which land belonged to the village, the arable land being allotted to the members or households of the community by more or less permanent arrangements and the waste or excess land remaining undivided.
  • westminster abbey — a Gothic church in London, England.
  • williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties
  • with a heavy hand — in a heavy manner; without delicacy or grace
  • x-ray diffraction — diffraction of x-rays by the regularly spaced atoms of a crystal, useful for determining the arrangement of the atoms.
  • x-ray examination — an examination of part of the body, using an X-ray machine
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?