17-letter words containing r, i, d, g, e, t
- integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
- interference drag — the drag on an aircraft caused by the interaction of two aerodynamic bodies.
- interior designer — a person whose profession is the execution of interior design.
- interior drainage — a drainage system whose waters do not continue to the ocean either on the surface or underground, but evaporate within the land area.
- italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
- iterated integral — a double integral that is evaluated by first integrating the integrand with respect to one variable with the second variable being held constant and then integrating the resulting function with respect to the second variable.
- job-order costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
- leading indicator — A leading indicator is an economic indicator that changes before a change in the economy, and that can be used to predict future economic or financial activity.
- legendre equation — a differential equation of the form (1− x 2) d2y/dx2 − 2 xdy/dx + a (a + 1) y = 0, where a is an arbitrary constant.
- lepidopterologist — One who studies lepidopterology.
- litigation friend — a person acting on behalf of an infant or other person under legal disability
- madiba generation — the generation born around 1994, when Nelson Mandela became the first president of a multiracial South Africa
- magnetic meridian — a line on the earth's surface, passing in the direction of the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic field.
- managing director — manager who oversees a project
- methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
- mileage indicator — a device on a vehicle such as a car, plane, etc which indicates the number of miles travelled
- misunderstandings — Plural form of misunderstanding.
- modest mussorgski — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
- naked singularity — an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole
- neurodegenerative — Resulting in or characterized by degeneration of the nervous system, especially the neurons in the brain.
- nitrogen peroxide — the equilibrium mixture of nitrogen dioxide and dinitrogen tetroxide
- north frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.
- organized ferment — ferment (def 1).
- organized militia — a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.
- overhead lighting — lighting which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
- painted greenling — a greenling, Oxylebius pictus, inhabiting the Pacific coastal waters of North America, having a whitish body marked with black bands.
- parking attendant — a person who works for a traffic control agency and who issues tickets for parking violations
- partially sighted — unable to see properly so that even with corrective aids normal activities are prevented or seriously hindered
- pate de foie gras — See under foie gras.
- 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.
- predatory pricing — If a company practises predatory pricing, it charges a much lower price for its products or services than its competitors in order to force them out of the market.
- prescription drug — medication available only on doctor's instruction
- pressure gradient — the change of pressure per unit distance
- pterygoid process — either of two long bony plates extending downwards from each side of the sphenoid bone within the skull
- pudding-pipe tree — golden shower.
- radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
- rat-tailed maggot — the aquatic larva of any of several syrphid flies of the genus Eristalis, that breathes through a long, thin tube at the posterior end of its body.
- ready and waiting — If you want to emphasize that a person is properly prepared for something, or that something can now be used, you can say that they are ready and waiting.
- recreation ground — an open space for public recreation, esp one in a town, with swings and slides, etc, for children
- recreational drug — drug taken for pleasure
- registered office — official business address
- registered stocks — stocks officially registered to the name of the owner
- 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 ….
- restraining order — a judicial order to forbid a particular act until a decision is reached on an application for an injunction.
- retained earnings — income not paid out as shares
- retarded ignition — late ignition, which may cause the engine to under-perform
- right in the head — sane
- ring-tailed lemur — a Madagascan prosimian primate, Lemur catta, with a long black and white ringed tail
- salt-rising bread — a kind of bread leavened with a fermented mixture of salted milk, cornmeal, flour, sugar, and soda.