17-letter words containing m, y, s, t, o, r
- parents anonymous — (in Britain) an association of local voluntary self-help groups offering help through an anonymous telephone service to parents who fear they will injure their children, or who have other problems in managing their children
- pastoral symphony — the Symphony No. 6 in F major (1807–08) by Ludwig van Beethoven.
- persistent memory — non-volatile storage
- production system — (programming) A production system consists of a collection of productions (rules), a working memory of facts and an algorithm, known as forward chaining, for producing new facts from old. A rule becomes eligible to "fire" when its conditions match some set of elements currently in working memory. A conflict resolution strategy determines which of several eligible rules (the conflict set) fires next. A condition is a list of symbols which represent constants, which must be matched exactly; variables which bind to the thing they match and "<> symbol" which matches a field not equal to symbol. Example production systems are OPS5, CLIPS, flex.
- property mistress — a female member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
- protective system — protectionism (def 1).
- psychometric test — a test designed to test a person's mental state, personality and thought processes
- reiter's syndrome — a disease of unknown cause, occurring primarily in adult males, marked by urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis.
- ross and cromarty — a historic county in NW Scotland.
- scheme repository — A collection of free Scheme programs.
- short-term memory — information retained in the brain and retrievable from it over a brief span of time (contrasted with long-term memory).
- sodium pyroborate — borax1 .
- spectrophotometry — an instrument for making photometric comparisons between parts of spectra.
- stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
- statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
- steering geometry — Steering geometry is the geometric arrangement of the parts of a steering system, and the value of the lengths and angles within it.
- strawberry tomato — the small, edible, tomato-like fruit of the plant Physalis pruinosa, of the nightshade family.
- sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
- synchronous motor — a synchronous machine that acts as a motor.
- take sth by storm — If someone or something takes a place by storm, they are extremely successful.
- 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.
- theory of numbers — number theory.
- to lose your mind — If you say that someone is losing their mind, you mean that they are becoming mad.
- to slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget it.
- tolpuddle martyrs — six farm workers sentenced to transportation for seven years in 1834 for administering an unlawful oath to form a trade union in the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset
- tourette syndrome — a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent involuntary movements, including multiple neck jerks and sometimes vocal tics, as grunts, barks, or words, especially obscenities.
- tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
- turner's syndrome — an abnormal congenital condition resulting from a defect on or absence of the second sex chromosome, characterized by retarded growth of the gonads.
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- yesterday morning — during the morning of the day preceding today
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.