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17-letter words containing p, i, n, t, e

  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
  • telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
  • telephone service — a company or public utility that provides a telephone-operating service
  • temporomandibular — of, relating to, or situated near the hinge joint formed by the lower jaw and the temporal bone of the skull.
  • terminal capacity — The terminal capacity is the volume which can be stored in a terminal (= building or area with tanks).
  • terminal operator — A terminal operator is a company that manages a place where oil or petrochemical products are stored.
  • terminal platform — (in the oil industry) an offshore platform from which oil or gas is pumped ashore through a pipeline
  • ternary operation — an operation in a mathematical system by which three elements are combined to yield a single result.
  • the alpine valley — a straight fracture on the moon that cuts the Alps in two
  • the mississippian — the Mississippian period or rock system equivalent to the lower Carboniferous of Europe
  • the night's a pup — it's early yet
  • the past anterior — a French tense: the pluperfect
  • the pennsylvanian — the Pennsylvanian period or rock system, equivalent to the Upper Carboniferous of Europe
  • the plot thickens — People sometimes say 'the plot thickens' when a situation or series of events is getting more and more complicated and mysterious.
  • the upper regions — the sky; heavens
  • therapeutic index — the ratio between the dosage of a drug that causes a lethal effect and the dosage that causes a therapeutic effect.
  • thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
  • thermal pollution — a rise in the temperature of rivers or lakes that is injurious to water-dwelling life and is caused by the disposal of heated industrial waste water or water from the cooling towers of nuclear power plants.
  • thiopental sodium — a barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 NaO 2 S, used as an anesthetic in surgery and, in psychiatry, for narcoanalysis and to stimulate recall of past events.
  • this can't happen — can't happen
  • 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.
  • till eulenspiegel — a legendary German peasant of the 14th century whose practical jokes yielded many stories.
  • to open your mind — If something opens your mind to new ideas or experiences, it makes you more willing to accept them or try them.
  • top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
  • traffic policeman — a policeman controlling traffic, esp while stationed at an intersection, or enforcing traffic regulations
  • travelling people — Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves
  • tropical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of diseases occurring in the tropics.
  • tympanic membrane — eardrum.
  • 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.
  • unemployment line — When people talk about the unemployment line, they are talking about the state of being unemployed, especially when saying how many people are unemployed.
  • unpredictableness — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • unproportionately — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
  • unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
  • up/raise the ante — If you up the ante or raise the ante, you increase your demands when you are in dispute or fighting for something.
  • urban exploration — a recreational activity in which people explore derelict urban structures such as abandoned sewers or underground railways or attempt to access areas which are closed to the public such as the roofs of skyscrapers
  • vacant possession — ownership of an unoccupied house or property, any previous owner or tenant having departed
  • ventura publisher — Corel VENTURA
  • vertical planning — the planning of education delivered in schools discussed between teachers of different classes or grades
  • vice-presidential — relating to a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic
  • vitamin b complex — an important group of water-soluble vitamins containing vitamin B 1 , vitamin B 2 , etc.
  • vulcan death grip — (jargon)   A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.
  • walk-in apartment — a ground-floor apartment having a private entrance directly from the street, rather than through a hallway of the building.
  • weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
  • wedding reception — party after a marriage
  • well-proportioned — adjusted to proper proportion or relation.
  • white-pine weevil — a brown beetle, Pissodes strobi, the larvae of which feed on the terminal buds and shoots of white pine and other conifers.
  • winter heliotrope — a creeping perennial, Petasites fragrans, related to the butterbur, having lilac to heliotrope-coloured flowers smelling of vanilla: found chiefly on road verges
  • without exception — all included
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