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17-letter words containing i, n, g, e, r, a

  • organized militia — a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.
  • osculating circle — circle of curvature.
  • outline agreement — a contract, etc, setting out the preliminary terms or guidelines for an agreement; a preliminary agreement
  • overhead lighting — lighting which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • oversquare engine — An oversquare engine is an engine which has a cylinder bore that is larger than its stroke.
  • painted greenling — a greenling, Oxylebius pictus, inhabiting the Pacific coastal waters of North America, having a whitish body marked with black bands.
  • paradise regained — an epic poem (1671) by John Milton.
  • parking attendant — a person who works for a traffic control agency and who issues tickets for parking violations
  • pascal's triangle — a triangular arrangement of the binomial coefficients of the expansion (x + y) n for positive integral values of n.
  • passenger station — a station used by passengers
  • passenger traffic — number of passengers
  • pauline privilege — (in canon law) the privilege given to converts to dissolve a marriage with an unbaptized spouse if either obstructs the religious practices of the other.
  • perforation gauge — a marked ruler used to measure the number of perforations per unit length along the borders of a stamp.
  • permutation group — a mathematical group whose elements are permutations and in which the product of two permutations is the same permutation as is obtained by performing them in succession.
  • 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.
  • pillion passenger — a person who travels in a seat or place behind the rider of a motorcycle, scooter, horse, etc
  • polarizing filter — a camera lens filter used to control the plane of polarization of light entering the lens.
  • portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
  • portuguese guinea — former name of Guinea-Bissau.
  • postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
  • pre-configuration — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • pre-investigation — the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
  • pre-technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • precision casting — investment casting.
  • predatory pricing — If a company practises predatory pricing, it charges a much lower price for its products or services than its competitors in order to force them out of the market.
  • prelingually deaf — deaf from birth or having acquired deafness before learning to speak
  • pressure gradient — the change of pressure per unit distance
  • proficiency badge — an insignia or device granted by the Girl Scouts and worn especially on a uniform to indicate special achievement.
  • purple granadilla — the edible fruit of any of several species of passionflower, especially Passiflora edulis (purple granadilla) or P. quadrangularis (giant granadilla)
  • 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.
  • re-entering angle — an interior angle of a polygon that is greater than 180°.
  • reading knowledge — the ability to read a language, but not speak it
  • ready and waiting — If you want to emphasize that a person is properly prepared for something, or that something can now be used, you can say that they are ready and waiting.
  • receding forehead — a forehead which slopes backwards
  • receding hairline — hair that is thinning at the front
  • receiving blanket — a small blanket, usually of cotton, for wrapping an infant, especially following a bath.
  • 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
  • rectangle slinger — polygon pusher
  • recurring decimal — Mathematics. repeating decimal.
  • repeating decimal — a decimal numeral that, after a certain point, consists of a group of one or more digits repeated ad infinitum, as 2.33333 …. or 23.0218181818 ….
  • repeating firearm — a firearm capable of discharging a number of shots without reloading.
  • restraining order — a judicial order to forbid a particular act until a decision is reached on an application for an injunction.
  • retained earnings — income not paid out as shares
  • retarded ignition — late ignition, which may cause the engine to under-perform
  • revealed religion — religion based chiefly on the revelations of God to humans, especially as described in Scripture.
  • right in the head — sane
  • right parenthesis — (character)   ")". ASCII character 41. Common names: right paren; right parenthesis; right; close; thesis ("(" = paren); close paren; close parenthesis; right parenthesis; right banana. Rare: already ("(" = so); rparen; ITU-T: closing parenthesis; close round bracket, right round bracket, INTERCAL: wane ("(" = wax); unparenthisey ("(" = parenthisey); right ear. Paired with left parenthesis.
  • ring-tailed lemur — a Madagascan prosimian primate, Lemur catta, with a long black and white ringed tail
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