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17-letter words containing p, l, a, n, t, g

  • 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
  • literacy campaign — a campaign designed to reduce illiteracy and promote literacy in a country, area, etc
  • logical operation — Boolean operation.
  • magnetic monopole — a hypothetical very heavy particle with an isolated magnetic north pole or magnetic south pole.
  • micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
  • midsagittal plane — a plane passing through the nasion when the skull is oriented in the Frankfurt horizontal.
  • mongolian hot pot — a stewlike dish of sliced meat, seafood, and vegetables cooked together in hot broth, often in a clay pot, and seasoned with a hot sauce.
  • multiple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of more than one variable and which requires for evaluation repetition of the integration process.
  • negative particle — a word that indicates negativity, for example 'not' in English or 'ne pas' in French
  • negative polarity — the grammatical character of a word or phrase, such as ever or any, that may normally be used only in a semantically or syntactically negative or interrogative context
  • neuropathological — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from neuropathology, the pathology of nerve tissue.
  • optical computing — (hardware)   (Or "Optical Signal Processing") Operating on data represented using electromagnetic radiation, e.g. visible light, instead of the electrical signals used in a conventional electronic digital computer. Electronic digital computers are built from transistors. These form components that store data and logic gates that perform the low-level Boolean operations such as AND, OR and NOT that are the basis of all digital computation. The optical equivalent requires material with a non-linear refractive index such that light beams can interact with each other to perform the same Boolean operations. Though the photons that carry optical signals offer some theoretical advantages over the electrons that carry electronic signals, there are many practical problems that would have to be overcome before optical computing could compete in terms of cost, power and speed.
  • painted greenling — a greenling, Oxylebius pictus, inhabiting the Pacific coastal waters of North America, having a whitish body marked with black bands.
  • paleoanthropology — the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.
  • paralysis agitans — Parkinson's disease
  • parathyroid gland — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
  • pascal's triangle — a triangular arrangement of the binomial coefficients of the expansion (x + y) n for positive integral values of n.
  • paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
  • physical training — fitness coaching
  • pile on the agony — to exaggerate one's distress for sympathy or greater effect
  • pittsburg landing — a village in SW Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: battle of Shiloh in 1862.
  • play along (with) — to join in or cooperate (with)
  • plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
  • polarizing filter — a camera lens filter used to control the plane of polarization of light entering the lens.
  • portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
  • postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
  • pre-technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • prothoracic gland — either of a pair of endocrine glands in the anterior thorax of some insects, functioning to promote the series of molts from hatching to adulthood.
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • repeating decimal — a decimal numeral that, after a certain point, consists of a group of one or more digits repeated ad infinitum, as 2.33333 …. or 23.0218181818 ….
  • self-depreciating — self-deprecating.
  • self-impregnating — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • self-perpetuating — continuing oneself in office, rank, etc., beyond the normal limit.
  • separating funnel — a large funnel having a tap in its output tube, used to separate immiscible liquids
  • shetland sheepdog — one of a breed of small sheepdogs resembling a miniature collie, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • shipping articles — articles of agreement.
  • sleeping quarters — the rooms where people sleep in a large building or complex or on a boat etc
  • spinal meningitis — infection of spinal membrane
  • spiritual healing — faith healing
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • supply management — business purchasing
  • taiping rebellion — a movement of religious mysticism and agrarian unrest in China between 1850 and 1864 which weakened the Manchu dynasty but was eventually suppressed with foreign aid
  • 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.
  • 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 message — a message that is transmitted by telephone
  • travelling people — Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves
  • vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
  • vertical planning — the planning of education delivered in schools discussed between teachers of different classes or grades
  • 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.
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