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17-letter words containing p, o, e, d, m

  • front-end payment — a payment required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
  • gridiron pendulum — a clock pendulum having, as part of its shaft, an arrangement of brass and steel rods having different coefficients of expansion, such that the pendulum has the same length at any temperature.
  • hardware platform — a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.
  • hermaphrodite rig — jackass rig.
  • hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
  • hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
  • hypodermic needle — a hollow needle used to inject solutions subcutaneously.
  • hypophrygian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from B to B, with the final on E.
  • immunocompromised — having an impaired or compromised immune response; immunodeficient.
  • independent axiom — in a set of axioms, one that cannot be proved by using the others in the set.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • lambda expression — (mathematics)   A term in the lambda-calculus denoting an unnamed function (a "lambda abstraction"), a variable or a constant. The pure lambda-calculus has only functions and no constants.
  • liquid petrolatum — mineral oil.
  • load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
  • lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
  • mean piston speed — The mean piston speed is the distance traveled by a piston in a specified amount of time.
  • meat and potatoes — If you refer to the meat and potatoes of something, you mean its most basic, simple, and essential parts.
  • meat-and-potatoes — fundamental; down-to-earth; basic: What are the meat-and-potatoes issues of the election?
  • medical procedure — A medical procedure is a medical treatment or operation.
  • metaperiodic acid — the crystalline compound HIO4, an oxyacid of iodine
  • method of payment — cash, credit card, cheque, etc.
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • microreproduction — a photographic image too small to be read by the unaided eye.
  • midmorning prayer — the third of the seven canonical hours; terce
  • mind-body problem — the problem of explaining the relation of the mind to the body.
  • mode of transport — means of travel
  • modern pentathlon — an athletic contest consisting of five different events: horse riding with jumps, fencing with electric épée, freestyle swimming, pistol shooting, and cross-country running
  • mom and pop store — a small retail business, typically family-operated
  • moon and sixpence — a novel (1919) by W. Somerset Maugham.
  • mounted policeman — policemen who patrol on horseback
  • muscle dysmorphia — a mental disorder primarily affecting males, characterized by obsessions about a perceived lack of muscularity, leading to compulsive exercising, use of anabolic steroids, etc. Compare body dysmorphic disorder.
  • noun pre-modifier — a noun that occurs before and modifies another noun, as toy in toy store or tour in tour group.
  • old contemptibles — the British expeditionary force to France in 1914
  • old people's home — An old people's home is a place where old people live and are cared for when they are too old to look after themselves.
  • one-time password — (security)   (OTP) A security system that requires a new password every time a user authenticates themselves, thus protecting against an intruder replaying an intercepted password. OTP generates passwords using either the MD4 or MD5 hashing algorithms. The equivalent term "S/Key", developed by Bellcore, is a trademark of Telcordia Technologies, so the name OTP is used increasingly. See RFC 1760 - "The S/KEY One-Time Password System" and RFC 1938 - "A One-Time Password System".
  • open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
  • parathyroidectomy — the excision of a parathyroid gland.
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
  • phumiphon aduldet — (Phumiphon Aduldet; Bhumibol Adulyadej) born 1927, king of Thailand since 1946.
  • police department — A police department is an official organization which is responsible for making sure that people obey the law.
  • postage due stamp — a stamp that is affixed to mail at a post office when prepayment of postage is insufficient, to indicate the amount that must be collected from the addressee.
  • potassium bromide — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, KBr, having a bitter saline taste: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic papers and plates, in engraving, and in medicine as a sedative.
  • potassium cyanide — a white, granular, water-soluble, poisonous powder, KCN, having a faint almondlike odor, used chiefly in metallurgy and photography.
  • powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
  • pre-modifications — an act or instance of modifying.
  • primary dentition — the deciduous dentition
  • primary education — junior, elementary schooling
  • product placement — Product placement is a form of advertising in which a company has its product placed where it can be clearly seen during a film or television programme.
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