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17-letter words containing p, e, c, a, t, o

  • spot announcement — a brief radio or television announcement, usually an advertisement, made by an individual station during or after a network program.
  • stand-up comedian — performer: tells jokes
  • steamship company — a company which has a fleet of steamships
  • storm in a teacup — a violent fuss or disturbance over a trivial matter
  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • supercolumniation — the placing of one order of columns above another.
  • support mechanism — any formal system or method of providing support or assistance
  • tactile corpuscle — an oval sense organ made of flattened cells and encapsulated nerve endings, occurring in hairless skin, as the tips of the fingers and toes, and functioning as a touch receptor.
  • 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.
  • take the place of — replace, be a substitute for
  • teaching hospital — a hospital associated with a medical college and offering clinical and other facilities to those in various areas of medical study, as students, interns, and residents.
  • technical support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • telescopic damper — a device with telescopic parts that reduce vibration in a motor vehicle
  • temporary account — A temporary account is an account which is closed out at the end of the year.
  • the electoral map — a map showing the distribution of constituencies over a country
  • the glacial epoch — the Pleistocene Epoch
  • the olympic flame — the flame that is symbolically lit at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia and transported by relay to the place where the Olympic Games are to be held. It is used to ignite a fire in a cauldron that will burn throughout the Games
  • the peace process — negotiations (between governments, countries, ect) towards peace or the resolution of a conflict
  • the south pacific — the part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator
  • thematic approach — teaching organized by theme rather than by school subject
  • therapeutic touch — the laying on of hands by a healer
  • thousandths-place — last in order of a series of a thousand.
  • throat microphone — a microphone worn around the throat and actuated by vibrations of the larynx, used when background noise would obscure the sound of speech, as in an airplane cockpit.
  • to keep the peace — If someone in authority, such as the army or the police, keeps the peace, they make sure that people behave and do not fight or quarrel with each other.
  • topological space — a set with a collection of subsets or open sets satisfying the properties that the union of open sets is an open set, the intersection of two open sets is an open set, and the given set and the empty set are open sets.
  • traffic policeman — a policeman controlling traffic, esp while stationed at an intersection, or enforcing traffic regulations
  • tropical maritime — a type of warm, wet air mass originating at low latitudes over ocean areas
  • tropical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of diseases occurring in the tropics.
  • turbosupercharger — (formerly) a turbocharger.
  • uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • uncooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • upper paleolithic — See under Paleolithic.
  • vacant possession — ownership of an unoccupied house or property, any previous owner or tenant having departed
  • vitamin b complex — an important group of water-soluble vitamins containing vitamin B 1 , vitamin B 2 , etc.
  • vittore carpaccio — Vittore [veet-taw-re] /vitˈtɔ rɛ/ (Show IPA), c1450–1525, Venetian painter.
  • war correspondent — a reporter or commentator assigned to send news or opinions directly from battle areas.
  • warehouse receipt — a receipt for goods placed in a warehouse.
  • wave-cut platform — a flat surface at the base of a cliff formed by erosion by waves
  • weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
  • wearable computer — a small computer that is worn or carried on the body; a wearable computing device: a wrist-worn wearable computer with a head-mounted display.
  • xerox corporation — (company)   A US company, founded in 1906, specialising in document related technology and services including photocopiers, printers and office software. Xerox's acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services added business process and document management to their product range. In 2013 they have 140,000 employees. Their research centre, XEROX PARC, prototyped several revolutionary advances in computing, which the company failed to exploit, including the WIMP desktop metaphor and XEROX Network Services.
  • zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.
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