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

  • osculating circle — circle of curvature.
  • outline agreement — a contract, etc, setting out the preliminary terms or guidelines for an agreement; a preliminary agreement
  • over-appreciation — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
  • over-compensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • over-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • overconcentration — the act of concentrating; the state of being concentrated.
  • overconscientious — Excessively conscientious.
  • overdetermination — the concept that a single emotional symptom or event, as a dream or a slip of the tongue, may be caused by more than one factor.
  • overhead lighting — lighting which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
  • oversquare engine — An oversquare engine is an engine which has a cylinder bore that is larger than its stroke.
  • oyer and terminer — (in some U.S. states) any of various higher criminal courts.
  • pacific northwest — the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies
  • palace revolution — a challenge to or overthrow of a sovereign or other leader by members of the ruling family or group.
  • paleoconservative — a person advocating an older, traditional type of conservatism, especially in politics.
  • pan potentiometer — a control on a stereo sound mixing desk by means of which the relative levels in right- and left-hand channels can be adjusted and hence the apparent position of the recorded or broadcast sound source within the stereo panorama can be controlled
  • parts per million — the number of units (of a substance) present in a million units of another substance
  • passenger station — a station used by passengers
  • pecorino (cheese) — an Italian cheese made of sheep's milk; specif., such a cheese that is dry, sharp, and very hard
  • peloponnesian war — a war between Athens and Sparta, 431–404 b.c., that resulted in the transfer of hegemony in Greece from Athens to Sparta.
  • pension provision — the provision of a pension by the state or an employer
  • per capita income — the total income of an area or country divided by the number of people in that area or country
  • per procurationem — by one acting as an agent; by proxy.
  • percussion bullet — a bullet that is exploded by percussion
  • perforation gauge — a marked ruler used to measure the number of perforations per unit length along the borders of a stamp.
  • peridot of ceylon — a honey-colored tourmaline, used as a gem: not a true peridot.
  • period-revolution — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.
  • periodic function — a function of a real or complex variable that is periodic.
  • periodic sentence — a sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense, as in Unable to join the others at the dance because of my sprained ankle, I went to a movie.
  • peripheral vision — all that is visible to the eye outside the central area of focus; side vision.
  • permutation group — a mathematical group whose elements are permutations and in which the product of two permutations is the same permutation as is obtained by performing them in succession.
  • pernicious anemia — Pernicious anemia is a very severe blood disease.
  • persistent memory — non-volatile storage
  • personal distance — personal space.
  • personal equation — the tendency to personal bias that accounts for variation in interpretation or approach and for which allowance must be made.
  • personality clash — friction between two people who have different personalities or points of view
  • personnel carrier — a vehicle used for transporting troops
  • personnel officer — a worker responsible for recruiting employees and dealing with matters relating to them
  • perspicaciousness — having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
  • perth and kinross — a council area of N central Scotland, corresponding mainly to the historical counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire: part of Tayside Region from 1975 until 1996: chiefly mountainous, with agriculture, tourism, and forestry. Administrative centre: Perth. Pop: 135 990 (2003 est). Area: 5321 sq km (2019 sq miles)
  • petitio principii — a fallacy in reasoning resulting from the assumption of that which in the beginning was set forth to be proved; begging the question.
  • phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
  • 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.
  • photo-respiration — the oxidation of carbohydrates in many higher plants in which they get oxygen from light and then release carbon dioxide, somewhat different from photosynthesis.
  • photoreactivation — a process that repairs DNA damaged by ultraviolet light using an enzyme that requires visible light.
  • pietro da cortona — Pietro da [pye-traw dah] /ˈpyɛ trɔ dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Pietro Berrettini) 1596–1669, Italian painter and architect.
  • pillion passenger — a person who travels in a seat or place behind the rider of a motorcycle, scooter, horse, etc
  • pincushion flower — scabious2 (def 1).
  • pioneering spirit — a willingness to endure hardship in order to explore new places or try out new things
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