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17-letter words containing n, a, m, p, l

  • plains of abraham — a high plain adjoining the city of Quebec, Canada: battlefield where the English under Wolfe defeated the French under Montcalm in 1759.
  • ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
  • police department — A police department is an official organization which is responsible for making sure that people obey the law.
  • political economy — a social science dealing with political policies and economic processes, their interrelations, and their influence on social institutions.
  • polymorphonuclear — (of a leukocyte) having a lobulate nucleus.
  • portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
  • postmillennialism — the doctrine or belief that the second coming of Christ will follow the millennium.
  • prealternate molt — the molt by which many birds replace only some and rarely all of the feathers assumed at the prebasic molt, usually occurring prior to breeding.
  • presentationalism — a style of production in which the audience is addressed directly with songs, skits, exposition, etc., and no attempt is made at realism.
  • prime ministerial — of or relating to the head of a parliamentary government
  • private placement — a sale of an issue of securities by the issuing company directly to a limited number of investors, often only one or two large institutional investors, such as a bank or an insurance company (opposed to public offering): required to be cleared but not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • pro-environmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
  • product placement — Product placement is a form of advertising in which a company has its product placed where it can be clearly seen during a film or television programme.
  • professional army — an army of trained soldiers
  • programme planner — someone who creates plans or schedules in regards to their line of work or occupation
  • programming fluid — (jargon)   (Or "wirewater") Coffee, unleaded coffee (decaffeinated), Cola, or any caffeinacious stimulant. Many hackers consider these essential for those all-night hacking runs.
  • promotional event — occasion organized to market or advertise sth
  • pronominalization — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
  • purely and simply — You use purely and simply to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the only thing involved.
  • quasiexperimental — (medicine) Describing a trial in which the assignment to a group is based upon an experimental condition.
  • recoil escapement — anchor escapement.
  • relative pathname — (file system)   A path relative to the working directory. Its first character can be anything but the pathname separator.
  • 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 ….
  • replacement value — insurance: sum required to replace sth
  • role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
  • rural development — social or economic activities or initiatives designed to improve the standard of living in areas far away from large towns or cities
  • scarlet pimpernel — a plant belonging to the genus Anagallis, of the primrose family, especially A. arvensis (scarlet pimpernel) having scarlet or white flowers that close at the approach of bad weather.
  • self-emancipation — the act of emancipating.
  • self-impregnating — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
  • semi-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
  • semi-professional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • seminal principle — a potential, latent within an imperfect object, for attaining full development.
  • sidewall sampling — Sidewall sampling is the process of taking a sample from the wall of the borehole.
  • single-name paper — commercial paper bearing only the signature of the maker.
  • sliding vane pump — A sliding vane pump is a pump in which the vanes (=flat parts) are the main sealing element between the suction and discharge areas.
  • sparc xterminal 1 — (computer)   Sun's lowest cost networked Unix desktop, it is board-upgradeable to a SPARC 4. It comes with a choice of frame buffers: 8-bit colour, Turbo GX, or Turbo GX plus. This product was expected to replace the SPARCclassic X. UK availability was planned for March 1995.
  • spatial summation — the act or process of summing.
  • special messenger — a postal worker who delivers mail by special delivery
  • spectrum analyser — an instrument that splits an input waveform into its frequency components, which are then displayed
  • spectrum analysis — the determination of the constitution or condition of bodies and substances by means of the spectra they produce.
  • spinal meningitis — infection of spinal membrane
  • stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • sunday supplement — a special section incorporated in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, often containing features on books, celebrities, home entertainment, gardening, and the like.
  • super-nationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
  • superalimentation — nourishment; nutrition.
  • supercolumniation — the placing of one order of columns above another.
  • supply and demand — economy: basic market theory
  • supply management — business purchasing
  • supra-nationalism — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
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