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17-letter words containing i, n, d, a, r

  • straw in the wind — If you say that an incident or piece of news is a straw in the wind, you mean that it gives an indication of what might happen in the future.
  • stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • subordinated debt — a debt that an unsecured creditor can only claim, in the event of a liquidation, after the claims of secured creditors have been paid
  • superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
  • surgical dressing — a dressing made of cotton, used for incisions made during surgery
  • surrender to bail — to present oneself at court at the appointed time after having been on bail
  • sustained-release — (of a drug or fertilizer) capable of gradual release of an active agent over a period of time, allowing for a sustained effect; timed-release; long-acting; prolonged-action; slow-release.
  • take in good part — to respond to (teasing) with good humour
  • teacher education — training to become a teacher, usually at an institution of higher education
  • technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
  • temporomandibular — of, relating to, or situated near the hinge joint formed by the lower jaw and the temporal bone of the skull.
  • 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— the original 13 states of the United States of America constituted under the Articles of Confederation and superseded by the more formal union established in 1789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 silken ladder — a one-act opera by Rossini, telling the story of Giulia, who is secretly married to Dorvil; he visits her bedroom every night by climbing up a ladder made of silk. Giulia's guardian, Dormont, expects her to marry Blansac, but she introduces Blansac to her cousin Lucilla; after much confusion, the two couples are joyfully united
  • therapeutic index — the ratio between the dosage of a drug that causes a lethal effect and the dosage that causes a therapeutic effect.
  • thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
  • thermal radiation — electromagnetic radiation emitted by all matter above a temperature of absolute zero because of the thermal motion of atomic particles.
  • third commandment — “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain”: third of the Ten Commandments.
  • three mile island — an island in the Susquehanna River, near Middletown, Pennsylvania, SE of Harrisburg: scene of a near-disastrous accident at a nuclear plant in 1979 that raised the issue of nuclear-energy safety.
  • three-dimensional — having, or seeming to have, the dimension of depth as well as width and height.
  • to read sb's mind — If you can read someone's mind, you know what they are thinking without them saying anything.
  • trade association — an association of people or companies in a particular business or trade, organized to promote their common interests.
  • trading standards — consumer organization
  • traditional logic — formal logic based on syllogistic formulas, especially as developed by Aristotle.
  • traffic diversion — a special route arranged for traffic to follow when the normal route cannot be used
  • transcendentalism — transcendental character, thought, or language.
  • transcendentalist — transcendental character, thought, or language.
  • transcendentalize — to cause to become transcendent.
  • 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.
  • tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
  • trobriand islands — a group of coral islands in the Solomon Sea, north of the E part of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. Area: about 440 sq km (170 sq miles)
  • tropical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of diseases occurring in the tropics.
  • turbinado (sugar) — a partially refined, granulated, pale-brown sugar obtained by washing raw sugar in a centrifuge until most of the molasses is removed
  • unclassified road — a road that has not been given a grade because it is of a basic standard
  • undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • unix brain damage — Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that it will interoperate with Unix systems. The hack may qualify as "Unix brain damage" if the program conforms to published standards and the Unix program in question does not. Unix brain damage happens because it is much easier for other (minority) systems to change their ways to match non-conforming behaviour than it is to change all the hundreds of thousands of Unix systems out there. An example of Unix brain damage is a kluge in a mail server to recognise bare line feed (the Unix newline) as an equivalent form to the Internet standard newline, which is a carriage return followed by a line feed. Such things can make even a hardened jock weep.
  • unpredictableness — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • unrealized losses — Unrealized losses are losses from the decrease in value of an asset that you still own.
  • user brain damage — (humour)   (UBD) A description (usually abbreviated) used to close a trouble report obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part. Compare pilot error; opposite: PBD; see also brain-damaged, PEBCAK.
  • vaginal discharge — emission from the female genitalia
  • valetudinarianism — the state, condition, or habits of a valetudinarian.
  • vanilla-flavoured — having been flavoured with vanilla extract or essence
  • vascular cylinder — stele (sense 3)
  • venereal diseases — sexually transmitted disease. Abbreviation: VD.
  • vibrofluidization — Vibrofluidization is when vibration is used to make particles move in a fluidized bed.
  • vice-presidential — relating to a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic
  • visible radiation — electromagnetic radiation that causes the sensation of sight; light. It has wavelengths between about 380 and 780 nanometres
  • voidable contract — a contract or agreement that is capable of being made of no legal effect or made void
  • vulcan death grip — (jargon)   A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.
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