17-letter words containing p, y, u
- absolute monopoly — a market situation in which there is only one supplier of a good or service for which there is no acceptable substitute.
- accounting policy — the principles behind the way in which a company keeps its accounts
- adoptive immunity — passive immunity resulting from the administration of sensitized lymphocytes from an immune donor.
- aperture priority — an automatic exposure system in which the photographer selects the aperture and the camera then automatically sets the correct shutter speed
- aperture-priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the aperture and the camera selects the shutter speed.
- appointed actuary — An appointed actuary is an actuary appointed by a life insurance company, whose main role is to carry out a regular valuation of the reserves held to pay future policy benefits.
- articulatory loop — a short-term memory system that enables a person to remember short strings of words by rehearsing them repeatedly in his head
- bankruptcy estate — all of the interests that a debtor has at the start of a bankruptcy case
- beauty specialist — a person who helps someone to improve their beauty, such as a make-up artist
- behaviour therapy — any of various means of treating psychological disorders, such as desensitization, aversion therapy, and instrumental conditioning, that depend on the patient systematically learning new modes of behaviour
- boulder raspberry — a shrub, Rubus deliciosus, of Colorado, having large white flowers and purple fruit.
- by return of post — by the next mail in the opposite direction
- campus university — a university in which the buildings, often including shops and cafés, are all on one site
- capacity audience — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event
- causality paradox — the hypothetical cause-and-effect of time travel and making changes in the past that would affect current actions.
- chadless keypunch — (hardware) A card punch which cut little U-shapes in punched cards, rather than punching out a circle or rectangle. The U's made a hole when folded back. One of the Jargon File's correspondents believed that the term "chad" derived from the Chadless keypunch. Obviously, if the Chadless keypunch didn't make them, then the stuff that other keypunches made had to be "chad". The assertion that the keypunch was named after its inventor is not supported by any record in US or UK patents or surname references.
- chincoteague pony — a wild pony found on certain islands off the Virginia coast, apparently descended from Moorish ponies shipwrecked in this vicinity in the 16th century.
- circumscriptively — In a circumscriptive manner.
- computer literacy — basic, nontechnical knowledge about computers and how to use them; familiarity and experience with computers, software, and computer systems.
- computer security — security
- contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
- counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
- courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
- dibutyl phthalate — a colorless oily liquid, C 16 H 22 O 4 , insoluble in water, used as a solvent, insect repellent, and plasticizer.
- double pair royal — a set of four cards of the same denomination, worth 12 points.
- duality principle — the principle that a mathematical duality exists under certain conditions.
- 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.
- employment equity — a policy or programme designed to reserve jobs for people formerly disadvantaged under apartheid
- entrepreneurially — In an entrepreneurial manner.
- equal opportunity — policies that bar discrimination
- eupen and malmédy — a region of Belgium in Liège province: ceded by Germany in 1919. Pop: 29 372 (2004 est)
- four-eyed opossum — a small opossum, Metachirops (Philander) opossum, ranging from Mexico to Brazil, having a white spot above each eye.
- four-part harmony — harmony in which each chord has four tones, creating, in sum, four melodic lines.
- frequency polygon — a frequency curve consisting of connected line segments formed by joining the midpoints of the upper edges of the rectangles in a histogram whose class intervals are of uniform length.
- gnu privacy guard —
- gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
- henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
- hippocampal gyrus — a convolution on the inner surface of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum, bordering the hippocampus.
- hospitality suite — a suite or room, as in a hotel or convention center, rented by a business firm, political candidate, or the like, to meet and entertain clients, potential customers, etc.
- 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
- hydrotherapeutics — hydrotherapy.
- hyperintellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- hypochlorous acid — a weak, unstable acid, HOCl, existing only in solution and in the form of its salts, used as a bleaching agent and disinfectant.
- i beg your pardon — You say 'Pardon?' or 'I beg your pardon?' or, in American English, 'Pardon me?' when you want someone to repeat what they have just said because you have not heard or understood it.
- imputation system — a former taxation system in which some, or all, of the corporation tax on a company was treated as a tax credit on account of the income tax paid by its shareholders on their dividends; discontinued from 1999
- in the public eye — featured prominently in the media
- insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
- irreproducibility — The quality of not being reproducible.
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