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17-letter words containing s, p, a, c, e, g

  • a sporting chance — If you have a sporting chance of doing something, it is quite likely that you will do that thing.
  • acanthopterygians — Plural form of acanthopterygian.
  • accessory pigment — any pigment in plants that can absorb light energy and pass the electrons along to the primary pigment which starts the process of photosynthesis.
  • api gravity scale — the American Petroleum Institute gravity scale: a universally accepted scale of the relative density of fluids that is used in fuel technology and is measured in degrees API. One degree API is equal to (141.5/d)–131.5, where d = relative density at 288.7K
  • arsenic poisoning — poisoning by arsenic
  • cape barren goose — a greyish Australian goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae, having a black bill with a greenish cere
  • closed-captioning — (of a television program, film, or video) distributed with synchronized transcription of speech and written descriptions of other relevant audio elements, as for the hearing-impaired, that are visible only when the option to display them is selected. Abbreviation: CC.
  • come to handgrips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • compensated grade — a grade that has been reduced along a curve to offset the additional resistance due to the curve.
  • computer graphics — the use of a computer to produce and manipulate pictorial images on a video screen, as in animation techniques or the production of audiovisual aids
  • consumer sampling — a research technique in which targeted consumers are polled or tested for their receptiveness to a product or service
  • counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
  • dagestan republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
  • dephlogisticating — Present participle of dephlogisticate.
  • egyptian brackets — (programming, humour)   A humourous term for K&R indent style, referring to the "one hand up in front, one down behind" pose which popular culture inexplicably associates with Egypt.
  • elliptical spring — An elliptical spring is a spring that is made from two springs in the shape of elongated ovals laid cut in half and back-to-back.
  • epistemologically — In a manner that pertains to epistemology.
  • escaping tendency — a property of a gas, related to its partial pressure, that expresses its tendency to escape or expand, given by d(log ef) = dμ/ RT, where μ is the chemical potential, R the gas constant, and T the thermodynamic temperature
  • fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
  • gause's principle — the principle that similar species cannot coexist for long in the same ecological niche
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • glymphatic system — Anatomy. the system or process by which cerebrospinal fluid moves through channels formed by glia, cleansing the mammalian brain of harmful waste.
  • greensand process — a process for casting iron with sand not previously heated.
  • handicap register — a list of the disabled people in its area that a local authority had a duty to compile under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • inspector general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • inspector-general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • integer specratio — SPECint92
  • integrated optics — an assembly of miniature optical elements of a size comparable to those used in electronic integrated circuits.
  • kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
  • landscaped garden — a garden that has been artistically designed
  • legal proceedings — court case
  • malagasy republic — former name of Madagascar.
  • mass spectrograph — a mass spectroscope for recording a mass spectrum on a photographic plate.
  • merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
  • newspaper cutting — clipping from a news publication
  • on the pig's back — successful; established
  • organ-pipe cactus — a treelike or columnar cactus, Lemaireocereus marginatus, of Mexico, having a central, erect spine surrounded by spreading spines in clusters of five to eight, and funnel-shaped, brownish-purple flowers.
  • pascal's triangle — a triangular arrangement of the binomial coefficients of the expansion (x + y) n for positive integral values of n.
  • passenger traffic — number of passengers
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
  • precision casting — investment casting.
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudo-biological — pertaining to biology.
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • self-depreciating — self-deprecating.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • septicemic plague — an especially dangerous form of plague in which the infecting organisms invade the bloodstream. Compare plague (def 2).

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