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17-letter words containing n, o, s, p

  • let something rip — If you let something rip, you do it as quickly or as forcefully as possible. You can say 'let it rip' or 'let her rip' to someone when you want them to make a vehicle go as fast as it possibly can.
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
  • life imprisonment — long-term prison sentence
  • lincoln's sparrow — a North American sparrow, Melospiza lincolnii, having a buff breast with black streaks.
  • load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
  • lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
  • m-expression lisp — (MLISP) The original "meta-language" syntax of Lisp, designed by John McCarthy in 1962. MLISP was intended for external use in place of the parenthesised S-expression syntax.
  • make no apologies — If you say that you make no apologies for what you have done, you are emphasizing that you feel that you have done nothing wrong.
  • malayo-polynesian — a family of languages extending from Madagascar to the central Pacific, including Malagasy, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, and Polynesian
  • mariner's compass — a compass used for navigational purposes, consisting of a pivoted compass card in a gimbal-mounted, nonferrous metal bowl.
  • mascarpone cheese — a very rich, white cream cheese of Italy
  • mean piston speed — The mean piston speed is the distance traveled by a piston in a specified amount of time.
  • meat and potatoes — If you refer to the meat and potatoes of something, you mean its most basic, simple, and essential parts.
  • meat-and-potatoes — fundamental; down-to-earth; basic: What are the meat-and-potatoes issues of the election?
  • meissen porcelain — Dresden china.
  • melissopalynology — The study of honey and its composition.
  • mercury poisoning — illness caused by exposure to mercury
  • metalloproteinase — (enzyme) Any of several proteinases that have a metal atom (often zinc) at their active centre.
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • micromanipulators — Plural form of micromanipulator.
  • misappropriations — Plural form of misappropriation.
  • misinterpretation — An instance of misinterpreting.
  • misrepresentation — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
  • mississippi sound — an arm of the Gulf of Mexico, extending from Lake Borgne, SE Louisiana, to Mobile Bay, SW Alabama: part of the Intracoastal Waterway. About 100 miles (160 km) long.
  • mode of transport — means of travel
  • mom and pop store — a small retail business, typically family-operated
  • moon and sixpence — a novel (1919) by W. Somerset Maugham.
  • morphic resonance — the idea that, through a telepathic effect or sympathetic vibration, an event or act can lead to similar events or acts in the future or an idea conceived in one mind can then arise in another
  • mother spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium bulbiferum, of tropical Africa and Australasia, the fronds often bearing bulbils that sprout into new plants while still attached, grown as an ornamental.
  • mount robson park — a national park in the Rocky Mountains of E British Columbia, Canada.
  • neo-expressionism — an art movement, chiefly in painting, that developed in Germany, Italy, and the U.S. in the late 1970s, emphasized large heavy forms and thick impasto, and typically dealt with historical narrative in terms of symbolism, allegory, and myth.
  • neo-impressionism — the theory and practice of a group of post-impressionists of about the middle 1880s, characterized chiefly by a systematic juxtaposition of dots or points of pure color according to a concept of the optical mixture of hues.
  • neurophysiologist — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neuropsychiatrist — A medical doctor specializing in neuropsychiatry; a medical doctor dealing with disorders that have both neurological and psychiatric features.
  • neuropsychologist — A neurologist or psychologist whose speciality is neuropsychology.
  • new expressionism — neo-expressionism.
  • non compos mentis — not of sound mind; mentally incapable of managing one's affairs.
  • non-comprehension — the act or process of comprehending.
  • non-corresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
  • non-stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • non-thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • nonaccomplishment — Something that does not achieve the intended goal.
  • nonphotosynthetic — the complex process by which carbon dioxide, water, and certain inorganic salts are converted into carbohydrates by green plants, algae, and certain bacteria, using energy from the sun and chlorophyll.
  • nonproductiveness — The quality of being nonproductive.
  • nonrepresentative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • northeast passage — a ship route along the N coast of Europe and Asia, between the North Sea and the Pacific.
  • northern sporades — a group of Greek islands in the Aegean, lying northeast of Euboea
  • northwest passage — a ship route along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • not spare oneself — to exert oneself to the full
  • old age pensioner — An old age pensioner is a person who is old enough to receive an pension from their employer or the government.
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