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17-letter words containing i, s

  • asymmetrical bars — a set of parallel bars, having one bar fixed at 230 cm (7 ft, 6 in) and the other at 150 cm (4 ft, 11 in), used by women gymnasts
  • at a disadvantage — If you are at a disadvantage, you have a problem or difficulty that many other people do not have, which makes it harder for you to be successful.
  • at a snail's pace — If you say that someone does something at a snail's pace, you are emphasizing that they are doing it very slowly, usually when you think it would be better if they did it much more quickly.
  • at one's disposal — If you have something at your disposal, you are able to use it whenever you want, and for whatever purpose you want. If you say that you are at someone's disposal, you mean that you are willing to help them in any way you can.
  • at one's own risk — If you tell someone that they are doing something at their own risk, you are warning them that, if they are harmed, it will be their own responsibility.
  • at swords' points — ready to quarrel or fight
  • at the service of — To be at the service of a person or organization means to be available to help or be used by that person or organization.
  • athlete's village — an area of accommodation for competitors taking part in a sports event
  • attention-seeking — intended to make people take notice
  • attorneys-in-fact — a person authorized by power of attorney to act on the authorizer's behalf outside a court of law.
  • attraction sphere — centrosphere (sense 1)
  • audience research — research into the make-up and habits of the audience of a particular television or radio programme or network
  • audio description — a facility provided for visually impaired people in which a film, television programme, or play is described through audio technology
  • audio-visual aids — training or educational materials directed at both the sense of hearing and the sense of sight; films, recordings, photographs, etc., used in classroom instruction, library collections, or the like.
  • aurea mediocritas — the golden mean.
  • australia antigen — an antigen present in the blood of some persons with one form of hepatitis
  • australia current — a branch of the South Equatorial Current flowing SW from around Fiji to the E coast of Australia and then S along the coast.
  • australian ballot — an official ballot listing candidates for election to public office and issues, levies, etc., distributed inside the polling place to be marked by the voter in secret: it originated in Australia and is widely used in the U.S.
  • australian kelpie — one of an Australian breed of medium-sized sheepherding dogs having a short, harsh, straight coat in a combination of colors that can include black, red, tan, fawn, chocolate, or smoke blue, probably developed by crossbreeding between the border collie and dingo.
  • australian salute — a movement of the hand and arm made to brush flies away from one's face
  • australopithecine — any of various extinct apelike primates of the genus Australopithecus and related genera, remains of which have been discovered in southern and E Africa. Some species are estimated to be over 4.5 million years old
  • authoritativeness — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
  • automated testing — (testing)   Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation.
  • autosensitization — autoimmunization.
  • auxiliary storage — secondary storage.
  • average seek time — (storage)   The mean time it takes to move the head of a disk drive from one track to another, averaged over the source and destination cylinders. Usually measured in milliseconds (ms). The average seek time gives a good measure of the speed of the drive in a multi-user environment where successive read/write request are largely uncorrelated. Ten ms is common for a hard disk and 200 ms for an eight-speed CD-ROM.
  • aviation industry — a collective term for the companies involved in air transport
  • avoirdupois pound — a pound weighing 16 ounces
  • axis of abscissas — x-axis (def 1).
  • axis of ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
  • axis-of-abscissas — x-axis (def 1).
  • axis-of-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
  • babe in the woods — a baby or child.
  • babi yar symphony — a symphony (1962) by Dimitri Dimitrievich Shostakovich.
  • babinski's reflex — a reflex extension of the great toe with flexion of the other toes, evoked by stroking the sole of the foot: normal in infants but otherwise denoting central nervous system damage.
  • back on the rails — If something is back on the rails, it is beginning to be successful again after a period when it almost failed.
  • backward analysis — (theory)   An analysis to determine properties of the inputs of a program from properties or context of the outputs. E.g. if the output of this function is needed then this argument is needed. Compare forward analysis.
  • bacon's rebellion — an unsuccessful uprising by frontiersmen in Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial government in Jamestown.
  • bacteriorhodopsin — a purple protein containing retinal and found in the plasma membrane of certain bacteria (genus Halobacterium): it directly supplies electrochemical energy from sunlight
  • baggage screening — the procedure whereby baggage is electronically screened at an airport before it is allowed on the plane
  • bahia de cochinos — Spanish name of Bay of Pigs.
  • ballistic missile — a missile that has no wings or fins and that follows a ballistic trajectory when its propulsive power is discontinued
  • barbed-wire grass — an aromatic grass, Cymbopogon refractus, with groups of seed heads resembling barbed wire
  • barber of seville — Italian Il barbiere di Siviglia. a comic opera (1816) by Gioacchino Rossini based on a comedy (1775) by Beaumarchais.
  • barmecide (feast) — a pretended feast with no food
  • barrel distortion — distortion of an image produced by an optical system that causes straight lines at image margins to bulge outwards
  • barrow-in-furness — an industrial town in NW England, in S Cumbria. Pop: 47 194 (2001)
  • bartholin's gland — either of two small glands near the vaginal opening: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous lubricating substance
  • basal anaesthesia — preliminary and incomplete anaesthesia induced to prepare a surgical patient for total anaesthesia with another agent
  • base lending rate — a minimum interest rate on which financial institutions base the rates they use for lending
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