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17-letter words containing n, i, t, y

  • authority control — the establishment and maintainance of consistent forms of terms, as of names, subjects, and titles, to be used as headings in bibliographic records.
  • aviation industry — a collective term for the companies involved in air transport
  • baby doll nightie — a short, frilly nightdress
  • balanced literacy — a method of teaching reading in which phonics and whole language approaches are both used to maximize student learning.
  • be sitting pretty — If you say that someone is sitting pretty, you mean that they are in a good, safe, or comfortable position.
  • benefit of clergy — sanction by the church
  • beyond redemption — If you say that someone or something is beyond redemption, you mean that they are so bad it is unlikely that anything can be done to improve them.
  • binary opposition — a relation between the members of a pair of linguistic items, as a pair of distinctive features, such that one is the absence of the other, as voicelessness and voice, or that one is at the opposite pole from the other, as stridency and mellowness.
  • blocking antibody — Immunology. an antibody that partly combines with an antigen and interferes with cell-mediated immunity, thereby preventing an allergic reaction.
  • blue-sky thinking — Blue-sky thinking is the activity of trying to find completely new ideas.
  • body modification — any method of permanently adorning the body, including tattooing and piercing
  • bouncebackability — the ability to recover after a setback, esp in sport
  • brazilian rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
  • building industry — the economic sector comprising all companies involved in construction
  • buyers' inflation — inflation in which rising demand results in a rise in prices.
  • cache consistency — cache coherency
  • campus university — a university in which the buildings, often including shops and cafés, are all on one site
  • capacity audience — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event
  • carrying capacity — the maximum number of individuals that an area of land can support, usually determined by their food requirements
  • celebrity wedding — a wedding of famous people, usually reported at length in celebrity magazines
  • center of gravity — The center of gravity of an object is a point in it. If this point is above the base of the object, it stays stable, rather than falling over.
  • centre of gravity — The centre of gravity of an object is a point in it. If this point is above the base of the object, it stays stable, rather than falling over.
  • chincoteague pony — a wild pony found on certain islands off the Virginia coast, apparently descended from Moorish ponies shipwrecked in this vicinity in the 16th century.
  • chlortetracycline — an antibiotic used in treating many bacterial and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces aureofaciens. Formula: C22H23ClN2O8
  • circumlocutionary — a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
  • circumstantiality — the quality of being circumstantial
  • cognitive therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to change the way he or sees the world and himself or herself: used particularly to treat depression
  • collection agency — A collection agency is an organization that obtains payments from people who owe money to others.
  • collision density — the rate at which collisions are occurring per unit volume per unit time, usually pertaining to the collisions of neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
  • combinatory logic — (logic)   A system for reducing the operational notation of logic, mathematics or a functional language to a sequence of modifications to the input data structure. First introduced in the 1920's by Schoenfinkel. Re-introduced independently by Haskell Curry in the late 1920's (who quickly learned of Schoenfinkel's work after he had the idea). Curry is really responsible for most of the development, at least up until work with Feys in 1958. See combinator.
  • comity of nations — the friendly recognition accorded by one nation to the laws and usages of another
  • community college — A community college is a local college where students from the surrounding area can take courses in practical or academic subjects.
  • community council — (in Scotland and Wales) an independent voluntary local body set up to attend to local interests and organize community activities
  • community service — Community service is unpaid work that criminals sometimes do as a punishment instead of being sent to prison.
  • community singing — singing, esp of hymns, by a large gathering of people
  • comprehensibility — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • configurationally — With regard to a configuration.
  • confrontationally — In a confrontational way.
  • conspiracy theory — A conspiracy theory is a belief that a group of people are secretly trying to harm someone or achieve something. You usually use this term to suggest that you think this is unlikely.
  • constitutionality — In a particular political system, the constitutionality of a law or action is the fact that it is allowed by the constitution.
  • contingency table — an array having the frequency of occurrence of certain events in each of a number of samples
  • contracting party — a person, company, etc, entering into a legal contract
  • coordinate system — a system of coordinates that uses numbers to represent a point, line, or the like.
  • copernican system — the theory published in 1543 by Copernicus which stated that the earth and the planets rotated around the sun and which opposed the Ptolemaic system
  • coronary arteries — either of two arteries that originate in the aorta and supply the heart muscle with blood.
  • counterinsurgency — action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • country of origin — the country from which a person originally comes
  • cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
  • cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
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