17-letter words containing p, e, a, s, n, t

japanese knotweed — Mexican bamboo.
japanese wisteria — a wisteria, Wisteria floribunda, of Japan, having violet, violet-blue, pink, red, or white flowers, grown in the U.S. as an ornamental.
job specification — a detailed description of the qualifications, skills, and experience required for a particular post of employment
judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
jurisprudentially — In terms of jurisprudence.
jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
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
kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
landscape painter — artist who depicts natural scenery
laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
lares and penates — household gods
least fixed point — (mathematics) A function f may have many fixed points (x such that f x = x). For example, any value is a fixed point of the identity function, (\ x . x). If f is recursive, we can represent it as f = fix F where F is some higher-order function and fix F = F (fix F). The standard denotational semantics of f is then given by the least fixed point of F. This is the least upper bound of the infinite sequence (the ascending Kleene chain) obtained by repeatedly applying F to the totally undefined value, bottom. I.e. fix F = LUB {bottom, F bottom, F (F bottom), ...}. The least fixed point is guaranteed to exist for a continuous function over a cpo.
least upper bound — an upper bound that is less than or equal to all the upper bounds of a particular set. 3 is the least upper bound of the set consisting of 1, 2, 3. Abbr.: lub.
level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
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.
maintainer script — (Debian) One of the scripts (preinst, prerm, postinst, postrm) that may be included in a Debian binary package. These scripts may create and/or remove symlinks, files or directories that, for some reason, could not be done directly by dpkg. Maintainer scripts frequently create or update the symlinks in the /etc/rc?.d directories and start, stop, or restart daemons.
mean piston speed — The mean piston speed is the distance traveled by a piston in a specified amount of time.
mean-spiritedness — the quality of being mean-spirited
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?
merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
metalloproteinase — (enzyme) Any of several proteinases that have a metal atom (often zinc) at their active centre.
microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
midsagittal plane — a plane passing through the nasion when the skull is oriented in the Frankfurt horizontal.
misinterpretation — An instance of misinterpreting.
misrepresentation — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
misrepresentative — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
mode of transport — means of travel
mom and pop store — a small retail business, typically family-operated
net present value — an assessment of the long-term profitability of a project made by adding together all the revenue it can be expected to achieve over its whole life and deducting all the costs involved, discounting both future costs and revenue at an appropriate rate
neuropsychiatrist — A medical doctor specializing in neuropsychiatry; a medical doctor dealing with disorders that have both neurological and psychiatric features.
newspaper cutting — clipping from a news publication
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.
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
omphalomesenteric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery.
on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
on the pig's back — successful; established
on-street parking — parking (of a car, vehicle, etc) that is or is allowed to be done on a street
one-time password — (security) (OTP) A security system that requires a new password every time a user authenticates themselves, thus protecting against an intruder replaying an intercepted password. OTP generates passwords using either the MD4 or MD5 hashing algorithms. The equivalent term "S/Key", developed by Bellcore, is a trademark of Telcordia Technologies, so the name OTP is used increasingly. See RFC 1760 - "The S/KEY One-Time Password System" and RFC 1938 - "A One-Time Password System".
opening arguments — the statements or arguments provided by lawyers at the beginning of a trial
operation sealion — the codename for Hitler's proposed invasion (1940) of Great Britain

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