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17-letter words containing n, e, p, t

  • supernova remnant — an expanding shell of gas, with accompanying strong radio and x-ray emissions, produced by a supernova.
  • superregeneration — regeneration in which a signal is alternately amplified and quenched at a frequency slightly above the audible range to achieve high sensitivity with a single tube.
  • superstitiousness — of the nature of, characterized by, or proceeding from superstition: superstitious fears.
  • supply management — business purchasing
  • support mechanism — any formal system or method of providing support or assistance
  • suspension points — a group of dots, usually three, used in written material to indicate the omission of a word or words
  • synthetic phonics — a method of teaching people to read by training them to pronounce sounds associated with particular letters in isolation and then blend them together
  • taiping rebellion — a movement of religious mysticism and agrarian unrest in China between 1850 and 1864 which weakened the Manchu dynasty but was eventually suppressed with foreign aid
  • take exception to — object to sth
  • take in good part — to respond to (teasing) with good humour
  • take no prisoners — to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
  • take second place — If one thing takes second place to another, it is considered to be less important and is given less attention than the other thing.
  • take upon oneself — to take the responsibility for; accept as a charge
  • take-no-prisoners — wholeheartedly aggressive; zealous; gung-ho: a businessman with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward dealmaking.
  • teaching hospital — a hospital associated with a medical college and offering clinical and other facilities to those in various areas of medical study, as students, interns, and residents.
  • teaching practice — Teaching practice is a period that a student teacher spends teaching at a school as part of his or her training.
  • technical support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
  • telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
  • telephone message — a message that is transmitted by telephone
  • telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
  • telephone service — a company or public utility that provides a telephone-operating service
  • temporary account — A temporary account is an account which is closed out at the end of the year.
  • temporomandibular — of, relating to, or situated near the hinge joint formed by the lower jaw and the temporal bone of the skull.
  • terminal capacity — The terminal capacity is the volume which can be stored in a terminal (= building or area with tanks).
  • terminal operator — A terminal operator is a company that manages a place where oil or petrochemical products are stored.
  • terminal platform — (in the oil industry) an offshore platform from which oil or gas is pumped ashore through a pipeline
  • ternary operation — an operation in a mathematical system by which three elements are combined to yield a single result.
  • the alpine valley — a straight fracture on the moon that cuts the Alps in two
  • the death penalty — capital punishment
  • the mississippian — the Mississippian period or rock system equivalent to the lower Carboniferous of Europe
  • the night's a pup — it's early yet
  • the past anterior — a French tense: the pluperfect
  • the pennsylvanian — the Pennsylvanian period or rock system, equivalent to the Upper Carboniferous of Europe
  • the penny dropped — If you say the penny dropped, you mean that someone suddenly understood or realized something.
  • the perfect tense — the tense of a verb that indicates that the action has been completed
  • the plot thickens — People sometimes say 'the plot thickens' when a situation or series of events is getting more and more complicated and mysterious.
  • the present tense — the form of a verb that expresses an action that is happening now or at the time of speaking
  • the underemployed — underemployed people
  • the upper regions — the sky; heavens
  • therapeutic index — the ratio between the dosage of a drug that causes a lethal effect and the dosage that causes a therapeutic effect.
  • thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
  • thermal pollution — a rise in the temperature of rivers or lakes that is injurious to water-dwelling life and is caused by the disposal of heated industrial waste water or water from the cooling towers of nuclear power plants.
  • thiopental sodium — a barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 NaO 2 S, used as an anesthetic in surgery and, in psychiatry, for narcoanalysis and to stimulate recall of past events.
  • this can't happen — can't happen
  • thompson seedless — a yellow, seedless variety of grape used in producing raisins.
  • thousandths-place — last in order of a series of a thousand.
  • throat microphone — a microphone worn around the throat and actuated by vibrations of the larynx, used when background noise would obscure the sound of speech, as in an airplane cockpit.
  • till eulenspiegel — a legendary German peasant of the 14th century whose practical jokes yielded many stories.
  • to know the ropes — If you know the ropes, you know how a particular job or task should be done.
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