17-letter words containing n, a, p, e
- export-orientated — (of an industry, company, etc) mainly concerned with the export of goods or services
- extrasolar planet — any other celestial body revolving around a star, illuminated by light from that star
- factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
- fancy dress party — a party at which the guests wear fancy dress
- fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
- feint-ruled paper — writing paper with light horizontal lines printed across at regular intervals
- financial planner — a person whose business is advising individuals in the management of their financial affairs
- fingerling potato — a finger-shaped potato
- first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
- fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
- flat as a pancake — without any curves or bumps
- foolscap envelope — an envelope of dimensions suitable to hold an unfolded sheet of foolscap paper
- foucault pendulum — a pendulum that demonstrates the rotation of the earth by exhibiting an apparent change in its plane of oscillation.
- frames per second — (unit) (fps) The unit of measurement of the frame rate of a moving image.
- french provincial — noting, pertaining to, or resembling a style of furnishings and decoration originating in the provinces of France in the 18th century, derived from but less ornate than styles then current in Paris and featuring simply carved wood furniture, often with decorative curved moldings.
- front-end payment — a payment required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
- front-line player — a regular player on a sports team or one who plays in the farthest forward position
- full linear group — the group of all nonsingular linear transformations mapping a finite-dimensional vector space into itself.
- garden apartments — a complex of low apartment buildings surrounded by lawn or landscaped areas
- garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
- gause's principle — the principle that similar species cannot coexist for long in the same ecological niche
- general paralysis — a syphilitic brain disorder characterized by chronic inflammation and degeneration of cerebral tissue resulting in mental and physical deterioration.
- get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
- go on the rampage — If people go on the rampage, they rush about in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
- golf ball printer — IBM 2741
- graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
- grain of paradise — Usually, grains of paradise. one of the pungent, peppery seeds of an African plant, Aframomum melegueta, of the ginger family, used to strengthen cordials and in veterinary medicine.
- great-grandnephew — a grandson of one's nephew or niece.
- great-grandparent — a grandfather or grandmother of one's father or mother.
- green peach aphid — an aphid, Myzus persicae, that is a pest of many fruit trees, ornamentals, and vegetables and a vector of certain viral plant diseases.
- greensand process — a process for casting iron with sand not previously heated.
- haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
- half-breadth plan — a diagrammatic plan of one half of the hull of a vessel divided lengthwise amidships, showing water lines, stations, diagonals, and bow and buttock lines.
- handicap register — a list of the disabled people in its area that a local authority had a duty to compile under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
- have a reputation — to be known or notorious, esp for promiscuity, excessive drinking, or the like
- heating apparatus — an apparatus that heats something
- helicopter parent — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
- henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
- heptanedioic acid — pimelic acid.
- hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
- holding operation — a plan or procedure devised to prolong the existing situation
- holy roman empire — a Germanic empire located chiefly in central Europe that began with the coronation of Charlemagne as Roman emperor in a.d. 800 (or, according to some historians, with the coronation of Otto the Great, king of Germany, in a.d. 962) and ended with the renunciation of the Roman imperial title by Francis II in 1806, and was regarded theoretically as the continuation of the Western Empire and as the temporal form of a universal dominion whose spiritual head was the pope.
- hope against hope — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
- hospital gangrene — Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.
- housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
- hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
- hyperalimentation — overfeeding.
- hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
- hyperchlorination — Chemistry. to combine or treat with chlorine. to introduce chlorine atoms into an organic compound by an addition or substitution reaction.