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17-letter words containing n, o, i, r, g

  • philosopher kings — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • phonological rule — an operation in generative phonology that substitutes one sound or class of sounds for another in a phonological derivation.
  • pillion passenger — a person who travels in a seat or place behind the rider of a motorcycle, scooter, horse, etc
  • pioneering spirit — a willingness to endure hardship in order to explore new places or try out new things
  • pitching rotation — the regular, scheduled succession of starting pitchers designated by a manager: a four-man pitching rotation in September.
  • pointer swizzling — swizzle
  • poison-arrow frog — a small, bright-colored terrestrial frog of the family Dendrobatidae, of Central and South American rain forests, that secretes a virulent poison from its skin, once used on the tips of Indian hunting arrows.
  • polarizing filter — a camera lens filter used to control the plane of polarization of light entering the lens.
  • portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
  • portuguese guinea — former name of Guinea-Bissau.
  • postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
  • pre-configuration — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • pre-investigation — the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
  • pre-technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • precision bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped, as accurately as possible, on a specific, usually small, target.
  • precision casting — investment casting.
  • predatory pricing — If a company practises predatory pricing, it charges a much lower price for its products or services than its competitors in order to force them out of the market.
  • prescription drug — medication available only on doctor's instruction
  • presiding officer — the person who presides over the Scottish Parliament or Welsh Assembly
  • production string — A production string is the series of pipes through which the oil or gas is brought up from the reservoir.
  • proficiency badge — an insignia or device granted by the Girl Scouts and worn especially on a uniform to indicate special achievement.
  • 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.
  • propelling pencil — a pencil consisting of a metal or plastic case containing a replaceable lead. As the point is worn away the lead can be extended, usually by turning part of the case
  • prothoracic gland — either of a pair of endocrine glands in the anterior thorax of some insects, functioning to promote the series of molts from hatching to adulthood.
  • put the finger on — to inform on or identify, esp for the police
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • railroad crossing — place for vehicles to cross train tracks
  • rapid prototyping — (programming)   The creation of a working model of a software module to demonstrate the feasibility and suitability of the function. The prototype is expected to be replaced or refined before inclusion in the final product. Rapid prototyping contrasts with a DIRFT approach which emphasises careful design and implementation to avoid the overheads of debugging and testing prototype code. Rapid prototyping is appropriate when the requirements are unclear or likely to change (which is most of the time).
  • reading knowledge — the ability to read a language, but not speak it
  • receding forehead — a forehead which slopes backwards
  • recording session — a period of time devoted to recording music in a studio
  • recreation ground — an open space for public recreation, esp one in a town, with swings and slides, etc, for children
  • recreational drug — drug taken for pleasure
  • recruiting office — an office where staff are recruited, esp by the military
  • reformed spelling — a revised orthography intended to simplify the spelling of English words, especially to eliminate unpronounced letters, as by substituting thru for through, tho for though, slo for slow, etc.
  • remote monitoring — (protocol)   (RMON) A network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single computer. Whereas SNMP gathers network data from a single type of Management Information Base (MIB), RMON 1 defines nine additional MIBs that provide a much richer set of data about network usage. For RMON to work, network devices, such as hubs and switches, must be designed to support it. The newest version of RMON, RMON 2, provides data about traffic at the network layer in addition to the physical layer. This allows administrators to analyse traffic by protocol.
  • restraining order — a judicial order to forbid a particular act until a decision is reached on an application for an injunction.
  • retarded ignition — late ignition, which may cause the engine to under-perform
  • returning officer — a public official appointed to conduct and preside at an election.
  • revealed religion — religion based chiefly on the revelations of God to humans, especially as described in Scripture.
  • ring in (or out) — to punch in (or out)
  • ringer's solution — an aqueous solution of the chlorides of sodium, potassium, and calcium in the same concentrations as normal body fluids, used chiefly in the laboratory for sustaining tissue.
  • rio grande do sul — a state in S Brazil. 107,923 sq. mi. (279,520 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Alegre.
  • role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
  • roving commission — authority or power given in a general area, without precisely defined terms of reference
  • row-level locking — (database)   A technique used in database management systems, where a row is locked for writing to prevent other users from accessing data being while it is being updated. Other techniques are table locking and MVCC.
  • sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
  • saturation diving — a method of prolonged diving, using an underwater habitat to allow divers to remain in the high-pressure environment of the ocean depths long enough for their body tissues to become saturated with the inert components of the pressurized gas mixture that they breathe: when this condition is reached, the amount of time required for decompression remains the same, whether the dive lasts a day, a week, or a month.
  • schizophrenogenic — causative of schizophrenia.
  • second generation — being the second generation of a family to be born in a particular country: the oldest son of second-generation Americans.
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