17-letter words containing p, e, n, c

lisp machine lisp — (language) An extension of Maclisp, now called Zetalisp.
literacy campaign — a campaign designed to reduce illiteracy and promote literacy in a country, area, etc
load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
logical operation — Boolean operation.
magnetic monopole — a hypothetical very heavy particle with an isolated magnetic north pole or magnetic south pole.
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.
manhattan project — U.S. History. the unofficial designation for the U.S. War Department's secret program, organized in 1942, to explore the isolation of radioactive isotopes and the production of an atomic bomb: initial research was conducted at Columbia University in Manhattan.
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
maximum principle — the theorem that a function of a complex variable that is analytic in a domain and on its boundary attains its maximum absolute value on the boundary.
mechanical pencil — a pencil for holding lead that can be extended by mechanical means.
meissen porcelain — Dresden china.
memory protection — (memory management) A system to prevent one process corrupting the memory (or other resources) of any other, including the operating system. Memory protection usually relies on a combination of hardware (a memory management unit) and software to allocate memory to processes and handle exceptions. The effectiveness of memory protection varies from one operating system to another. In most versions of Unix it is almost impossible to corrupt another process' memory, except in some archaic implementations and Lunix (not Linux!). Under Microsoft Windows (version? hardware?) any 16 bit application(?) can circumvent the memory protection, often leading to one or more GPFs. Currently (April 1996) neither Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, nor Mac OS offer memory protection. Windows NT has it, and Mac OS System 8 will offer a form of memory protection.
merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
mercury poisoning — illness caused by exposure to mercury
microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
microphanerophyte — any shrub or tree having a height of 2 to 8 metres
microreproduction — a photographic image too small to be read by the unaided eye.
mitre corporation — (body) A US federally funded R&D center, spun off in 1958 from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory (also an FFRDC). MITRE is a non-profit corporation chartered to do R&D in the public interest. MITRE were responsible for system engineering and implementation oversight of SAGE. MITRE does not stand for MIT Research and Engineering, though it could have.
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
mounted policeman — policemen who patrol on horseback
multiple cropping — the use of the same field for two or more crops, whether of the same or of different kinds, successively during a single year.
multiple-unit car — a self-propelled railroad car, generally used in commuting service, equipped so that a train of such cars can be operated from any one of them.
negative particle — a word that indicates negativity, for example 'not' in English or 'ne pas' in French
nephelometrically — By means of nephelometry.
neuropathological — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from neuropathology, the pathology of nerve tissue.
neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on 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.
newspaper cutting — clipping from a news publication
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-reciprocating — to give, feel, etc., in return.
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.
nonimpact printer — a printer that creates images without mechanically impacting the page, as an ink-jet or laser printer.
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.
notebook computer — laptop, portable
object complement — a word or a group of words used in the predicate following a factitive verb and referring to its direct object, as treasurer in We appointed him treasurer, white in They painted the house white, or an interesting speaker in They thought him an interesting speaker.
occipital condyle — a protrusion on the occipital bone of the skull that forms a joint with the first cervical vertebra, enabling the head to move relative to the neck.
oceanographically — In terms of oceanography.
old contemptibles — the British expeditionary force to France in 1914
olympic peninsula — a large peninsula of W Washington
omphalomesenteric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery.
on the pig's back — successful; established

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