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17-letter words containing p, a, c, k, n

  • background report — a report on someone or something that sheds light on their background, esp a report on the background of a person convicted of a crime before they are sentenced by a judge
  • banking principle — the principle that bank notes are a form of credit and should be issued freely in order to maintain an elastic currency.
  • bankruptcy estate — all of the interests that a debtor has at the start of a bankruptcy case
  • book depreciation — Book depreciation is depreciation in a company's internal financial records that is different from the amount that is used for taxes.
  • brompton cocktail — an analgesic mixture, usually containing morphine and cocaine and sometimes other narcotic substances in an alcohol solution, administered primarily to advanced cancer patients.
  • buckingham palace — the London residence of the British sovereign: built in 1703, rebuilt by John Nash in 1821–36 and partially redesigned in the early 20th century
  • carolina parakeet — an extinct New World parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis, that ranged into the northern U.S., having yellowish-green plumage with an orange-yellow head.
  • chadless keypunch — (hardware)   A card punch which cut little U-shapes in punched cards, rather than punching out a circle or rectangle. The U's made a hole when folded back. One of the Jargon File's correspondents believed that the term "chad" derived from the Chadless keypunch. Obviously, if the Chadless keypunch didn't make them, then the stuff that other keypunches made had to be "chad". The assertion that the keypunch was named after its inventor is not supported by any record in US or UK patents or surname references.
  • chukchi peninsula — a peninsula in the extreme NE of Russia, in NE Siberia: mainly tundra
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • dark-complexioned — (of a person) having a dark complexion
  • egyptian brackets — (programming, humour)   A humourous term for K&R indent style, referring to the "one hand up in front, one down behind" pose which popular culture inexplicably associates with Egypt.
  • flat as a pancake — without any curves or bumps
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • indian rope-trick — the supposed Indian feat of climbing an unsupported rope
  • intent to package — (Debian)   (ITP) A notice, posted to the Debian developer mailing list, announcing a developer's intent to make a new Debian package, including a brief description of the package and its license.
  • karelian republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia between the White Sea and Lakes Onega and Ladoga. Capital: Petrozavodsk. Pop: 716 700 (2002). Area: 172 400 sq km (66 560 sq miles)
  • keep your balance — If you keep your balance, for example when standing in a moving vehicle, you remain steady and do not fall over. If you lose your balance, you become unsteady and fall over.
  • kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
  • kick in the pants — a reprimand or scolding designed to produce greater effort, enthusiasm, etc, in the person receiving it
  • kinetic potential — the kinetic energy minus the potential energy in a system obeying the principle of conservation of energy. Symbol: L.
  • kitchen appliance — a machine intended for use in the kitchen, such as a fridge or a food processor
  • mount kirkpatrick — a mountain in Antarctica, in S Victoria Land in the Queen Alexandra Range. Height: 4528 m (14 856 ft)
  • on the pig's back — successful; established
  • packaging company — a company that packages goods on behalf of the producer
  • particle kinetics — Particle kinetics is the study of the movement of particles and the forces that cause this movement.
  • pinckney's treaty — an agreement in 1795 between Spain and the U.S. by which Spain recognized the 31st parallel as the southern boundary of the U.S. and permitted free navigation of the Mississippi to American ships.
  • planck's constant — the fundamental constant of quantum mechanics, expressing the ratio of the energy of one quantum of radiation to the frequency of the radiation and approximately equal to 6.624 × 10− 27 erg-seconds. Symbol: h.
  • pocket dictionary — a small portable dictionary
  • protection racket — a criminal activity in which money gangsters extort money from victims in exchange for freedom from molestation
  • severance package — an amount of compensation paid by an organization to an employee who leaves because, through no fault of their own, the job to which they were appointed ceases to exist, as during rationalization, and no comparable job is available to them
  • speak one's piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
  • take exception to — object to sth
  • 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.

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