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17-letter words containing p, o, e, t

  • excess employment — excessive numbers of employees for the amount of work available
  • exclamation point — exclamation mark
  • explicit function — a function whose values may be computed directly, as y = x2 + 1
  • export department — the department of a business concerned with the export of the business's goods or services
  • export-orientated — (of an industry, company, etc) mainly concerned with the export of goods or services
  • extrasolar planet — any other celestial body revolving around a star, illuminated by light from that star
  • factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
  • fictitious person — a legal entity or artificial person, as a corporation.
  • field post office — a place to which mail intended for military units in the field is sent to be sorted and forwarded
  • fingerling potato — a finger-shaped potato
  • fingertip control — control exercised through your fingertips, e.g. by touching a touchscreen
  • 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
  • fluorescent strip — a fluorescent light in the form of a long strip
  • 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.
  • for the most part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • forest enterprise — a British government department responsible for maintaining and expanding forests
  • foucault pendulum — a pendulum that demonstrates the rotation of the earth by exhibiting an apparent change in its plane of oscillation.
  • from pole to pole — throughout the entire world
  • from the rooftops — If you shout something from the rooftops, you say it or announce it in a very public way.
  • front-end payment — a payment required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
  • front-line player — a regular player on a sports team or one who plays in the farthest forward position
  • function complete — (programming)   State of a software component or system such that each function described by the software's functional specification can be reached by at least one functional path, and attempts to operate as specified.
  • garage proprietor — a person who owns a commercial establishment in which motor vehicles are repaired, serviced, bought, and sold
  • garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
  • 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
  • give up the ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
  • glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
  • go back to the pa — to abandon city life in favour of rural life
  • go on the rampage — If people go on the rampage, they rush about in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
  • 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.
  • go-faster stripes — (jargon)   chrome. Mainstream in some parts of UK.
  • gold export point — an exchange rate at which it is as cheap to settle international accounts by exporting gold bullion as by buying bills of exchange
  • golf ball printer — IBM 2741
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • greater spearwort — a Eurasian ranunculaceous plant, Ranunculus lingua, which grows in wet places and has long narrow leaves and yellow flowers
  • haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
  • hardware platform — a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.
  • have a reputation — to be known or notorious, esp for promiscuity, excessive drinking, or the like
  • health care proxy — a legal document in which a person can appoint someone to make decisions about medical treatment in the event that he or she is no longer mentally competent or able to communicate.
  • helicopter parent — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
  • heptanedioic acid — pimelic acid.
  • hermaphrodite rig — jackass rig.
  • holding operation — a plan or procedure devised to prolong the existing situation
  • home improvements — improvements to one's home, such as new kitchens and bathrooms, central heating etc
  • homeopathic magic — magic that attempts to control the universe through the mimicking of a desired event, as by stabbing an image of an enemy in an effort to destroy him or her or by performing a ritual dance imitative of the growth of food in an effort to secure an abundant supply; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that similar actions produce similar results.
  • 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.
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