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17-letter words containing r, e, m, y, t

  • phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
  • plymouth brethren — a religious sect founded c. 1827, strongly Puritanical in outlook and prohibiting many secular occupations for its members. It combines elements of Calvinism, Pietism, and millenarianism, and has no organized ministry
  • popular etymology — folk etymology.
  • powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
  • primary dentition — the deciduous dentition
  • primary education — junior, elementary schooling
  • primary intention — Logic. See under intention (def 5a).
  • primary qualities — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
  • primary structure — Biochemistry. the basic sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide or protein.
  • primary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • production system — (programming)   A production system consists of a collection of productions (rules), a working memory of facts and an algorithm, known as forward chaining, for producing new facts from old. A rule becomes eligible to "fire" when its conditions match some set of elements currently in working memory. A conflict resolution strategy determines which of several eligible rules (the conflict set) fires next. A condition is a list of symbols which represent constants, which must be matched exactly; variables which bind to the thing they match and "<> symbol" which matches a field not equal to symbol. Example production systems are OPS5, CLIPS, flex.
  • property mistress — a female member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
  • protective system — protectionism (def 1).
  • psychometric test — a test designed to test a person's mental state, personality and thought processes
  • quantum chemistry — the application of quantum mechanics to the study of chemical phenomena.
  • radial keratotomy — a surgical technique for correcting nearsightedness by making a series of spokelike incisions in the cornea to change its shape and focusing properties.
  • railway timetable — a list of railway journeys arranged according to the time when they begin and end
  • read-write memory — a type of computer memory that you can write to as well as read from
  • recumbent bicycle — a type of bicycle that is ridden in a reclining position
  • reiter's syndrome — a disease of unknown cause, occurring primarily in adult males, marked by urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis.
  • relative humidity — the amount of water vapor in the air, expressed as a percentage of the maximum amount that the air could hold at the given temperature; the ratio of the actual water vapor pressure to the saturation vapor pressure. Abbreviation: RH, rh.
  • relative majority — the excess of votes or seats won by the winner of an election over the runner-up when no candidate or party has more than 50 per cent
  • repertory company — repertory (def 2).
  • rich site summary — (web, standard)   (RSS, blog, feed) A family of standard web document types containing regularly updated, short articles or news items. RSS documents (generally called "RSS feeds", "news feeds" or just "feeds") can be read with an RSS reader like BottomFeeder or Feedly. These are sometimes called "aggregators" because they combine multiple RSS feeds which the user can browse as a single list. The RSS reader tracks which articles the use has read, and is typically set to show only new articles, hence the idea of a "feed" or flow of new items. Most RSS feeds are based on RDF. RDF is a structured document format for describing textual resources such as news articles available on the web. RSS originally stood for "RDF Site Summary" as it was designed to provide short descriptions of (changes to) a website. Because it provides a standard way to deliver, or "syndicate", news or updates from one site to another, RSS is sometimes expanded as "Really Simple Syndication". It is closely associated with blogs, most of which provide an RSS feed of articles.
  • safety in numbers — If you say that there is safety in numbers, you mean that you are safer doing something if there are a lot of people doing it rather than doing it alone.
  • scheme repository — A collection of free Scheme programs.
  • seaweed marquetry — marquetry having the form of symmetrical, foliate scrolls, as on English cabinetwork of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • semi-permeability — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • short-term memory — information retained in the brain and retrievable from it over a brief span of time (contrasted with long-term memory).
  • sodium pyroborate — borax1 .
  • spectrophotometry — an instrument for making photometric comparisons between parts of spectra.
  • spectrum analyser — an instrument that splits an input waveform into its frequency components, which are then displayed
  • spectrum analysis — the determination of the constitution or condition of bodies and substances by means of the spectra they produce.
  • stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
  • statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
  • steering geometry — Steering geometry is the geometric arrangement of the parts of a steering system, and the value of the lengths and angles within it.
  • strawberry tomato — the small, edible, tomato-like fruit of the plant Physalis pruinosa, of the nightshade family.
  • sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
  • take sth by storm — If someone or something takes a place by storm, they are extremely successful.
  • temporary account — A temporary account is an account which is closed out at the end of the year.
  • tenancy agreement — property rental contract
  • terminal capacity — The terminal capacity is the volume which can be stored in a terminal (= building or area with tanks).
  • terminal velocity — Physics. the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity. the maximum velocity of a body falling through a viscous fluid.
  • tertiary consumer — a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.
  • the olympic torch — a torch that is symbolically lit at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia and transported by relay to the place where the Olympic Games are to be held. It is used to ignite a fire in a cauldron that will burn throughout the Games
  • the underemployed — underemployed people
  • the varsity match — a sporting fixture between Oxford and Cambridge university rugby teams
  • theory of numbers — number theory.
  • thermoelectricity — electricity generated by heat or temperature difference, as in a thermocouple.
  • thermoperiodicity — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
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