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

  • employee benefits — benefits, such as health insurance, pension payments, or childcare, given to employees in addition to their usual salary or wage
  • employee discount — When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount, they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
  • encephalomyelitis — Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically due to acute viral infection.
  • enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
  • escaping tendency — a property of a gas, related to its partial pressure, that expresses its tendency to escape or expand, given by d(log ef) = dμ/ RT, where μ is the chemical potential, R the gas constant, and T the thermodynamic temperature
  • european standard — a specification to be used as a consistent rule or guideline in the manufacture or selling of a certain product or service traded within Europe
  • excess employment — excessive numbers of employees for the amount of work available
  • experimental lisp — (language)   (xlisp) An experimental programming language combining a subset of Common Lisp with an object-oriented extension capability (Class and Object types). It was implemented by David Micheal Betz at Apple to allow experimentation with object-oriented programming on small computers. The C source code has been ported to Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari, and MS-DOS. Version 2.1 of the interpreter, by Tom Almy is closer to Common Lisp. E-mail: Tom Almy <[email protected]>.
  • explosion welding — the welding of two parts forced together by a controlled explosion
  • explosive forming — a rapid method of forming a metal object in which components are made by subjecting the metal to very high pressures generated by a controlled explosion
  • extrasolar planet — any other celestial body revolving around a star, illuminated by light from that star
  • factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
  • fancy dress party — a party at which the guests wear fancy dress
  • fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
  • fictitious person — a legal entity or artificial person, as a corporation.
  • field penny-cress — the common penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense.
  • first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
  • fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
  • flat as a pancake — without any curves or bumps
  • flexible response — a military strategy that enables the response to an attack to be adapted to the nature and strength of the attack
  • flight supplement — an additional charge payable on the price of an air ticket
  • fluorescent strip — a fluorescent light in the form of a long strip
  • foolscap envelope — an envelope of dimensions suitable to hold an unfolded sheet of foolscap paper
  • foot-pound-second — of or relating to the system of units in which the foot, pound, and second are the principal units of length, mass, and time. Abbreviation: fps, f.p.s.
  • forest enterprise — a British government department responsible for maintaining and expanding forests
  • frames per second — (unit)   (fps) The unit of measurement of the frame rate of a moving image.
  • garden apartments — a complex of low apartment buildings surrounded by lawn or landscaped areas
  • gause's principle — the principle that similar species cannot coexist for long in the same ecological niche
  • gender expression — the external expression of gender roles, as through socially defined behaviors and ways of dressing.
  • general paralysis — a syphilitic brain disorder characterized by chronic inflammation and degeneration of cerebral tissue resulting in mental and physical deterioration.
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • get one's wind up — to become (or be) nervous or alarmed
  • go to ... expense — If you go to the expense of doing something, you do something which costs a lot of money. If you go to great expense to do something, you spend a lot of money in order to achieve it.
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • grain of paradise — Usually, grains of paradise. one of the pungent, peppery seeds of an African plant, Aframomum melegueta, of the ginger family, used to strengthen cordials and in veterinary medicine.
  • greensand process — a process for casting iron with sand not previously heated.
  • handicap register — a list of the disabled people in its area that a local authority had a duty to compile under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
  • heating apparatus — an apparatus that heats something
  • hold one's end up — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
  • home improvements — improvements to one's home, such as new kitchens and bathrooms, central heating etc
  • hope against hope — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
  • hospital gangrene — Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.
  • 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.
  • huygens principle — the principle that all points on a wave front of light are sources of secondary waves and that surfaces tangential to these waves define the position of the wave front at any point in time.
  • huygens' eyepiece — a telescope eyepiece consisting of two planoconvex lenses separated by a distance equal to half the sum of their focal lengths, which are in the ratio of three to one, and oriented so that their curved surfaces face the incident light
  • hydrogen sulphide — Chemistry
  • hyperbolic cosine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; cosh
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • hyperpolarisation — Alternative spelling of hyperpolarization.
  • hypoglossal nerve — either one of the twelfth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the muscles of the tongue.
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