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17-letter words containing s, e, r, p, n

  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • super-nationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
  • superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
  • superalimentation — nourishment; nutrition.
  • supercolumniation — the placing of one order of columns above another.
  • superconductivity — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
  • supernova remnant — an expanding shell of gas, with accompanying strong radio and x-ray emissions, produced by a supernova.
  • superregeneration — regeneration in which a signal is alternately amplified and quenched at a frequency slightly above the audible range to achieve high sensitivity with a single tube.
  • superstitiousness — of the nature of, characterized by, or proceeding from superstition: superstitious fears.
  • supervision order — an order by a juvenile court requiring a named probation officer or local-authority social worker to advise, assist, and befriend a child or young person who is the subject of care proceedings, over a period of up to three years
  • support mechanism — any formal system or method of providing support or assistance
  • supreme commander — the military officer commanding all allied forces in a theater of war.
  • surprise symphony — the Symphony No. 94 in G major (1791) by Franz Josef Haydn.
  • suspension bridge — a bridge having a deck suspended from cables anchored at their extremities and usually raised on towers.
  • synchronous speed — the speed at which an alternating-current machine must operate to generate electromotive force at a given frequency.
  • take no prisoners — to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
  • take-no-prisoners — wholeheartedly aggressive; zealous; gung-ho: a businessman with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward dealmaking.
  • technical support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
  • telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
  • telephone service — a company or public utility that provides a telephone-operating service
  • the past anterior — a French tense: the pluperfect
  • the perfect tense — the tense of a verb that indicates that the action has been completed
  • the present tense — the form of a verb that expresses an action that is happening now or at the time of speaking
  • the upper regions — the sky; heavens
  • thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
  • to know the ropes — If you know the ropes, you know how a particular job or task should be done.
  • to open your eyes — If something opens your eyes, it makes you aware that something is different from the way that you thought it was.
  • top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
  • transdermal patch — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
  • uncooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • unprecedentedness — without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an unprecedented event.
  • unpredictableness — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • unprofessionalism — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
  • up/raise the ante — If you up the ante or raise the ante, you increase your demands when you are in dispute or fighting for something.
  • ventura publisher — Corel VENTURA
  • vice-presidential — relating to a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic
  • war correspondent — a reporter or commentator assigned to send news or opinions directly from battle areas.
  • weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
  • weeping lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • weston-super-mare — a town and resort in SW England, in North Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the Bristol Channel. Pop: 78 044 (2001)
  • yorkshire pudding — a pudding made of an unsweetened batter of flour, salt, eggs, and milk, baked under meat as it roasts to catch the drippings or baked separately with a small amount of meat drippings.
  • zero-coupon bonds — Zero-coupon bonds are bonds with no coupons that do not pay interest, and are sold at a large discount from their face value.
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