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17-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i, l

  • delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
  • deliver the goods — to produce or perform something promised or expected
  • dematerialisation — The act or process of dematerializing.
  • depersonalisation — Alternative spelling of depersonalization.
  • depersonalization — the act or an instance of depersonalizing
  • dephosphorylation — the removal of a phosphate group from an organic compound, as in the changing of ATP to ADP.
  • designer clothing — Designer clothing is fashionable or luxury clothing made by, or carrying the label of, a well-known fashion designer.
  • desktop publisher — desktop publishing
  • deterministically — the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws.
  • dielectrophoresis — Dielectrophoresis is the movement of uncharged particles (= ones with no electrical charge) when a changing electric field is applied.
  • digital signature — an encrypted digital code appended to an electronic document to verify that it was created by a known source and has not been altered.
  • directionlessness — Absence of direction.
  • disaster planning — disaster recovery
  • discreditableness — Quality of being discreditable.
  • discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
  • disrespectability — Lack of respectability.
  • disrespectfulness — The state or quality of being disrespectful; disrespect; disregard.
  • dissolve in tears — weep
  • distance learning — education in which students receive instruction over the Internet, from a video, etc., instead of going to school.
  • distillers' grain — a by-product of the distillation process for making whisky, used as an animal foodstuff
  • distributed logic — a computer system in which remote terminals and electronic devices, distributed throughout the system, supplement the main computer by doing some of the computing or decision making
  • distribution line — A distribution line is a line or system for distributing power from a transmission system to a consumer that operates at less than 69,000 volts.
  • dull as dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
  • electric constant — the permittivity of free space, which has the value 8.854 187 × 10–12 farad per metre
  • electric strength — the maximum voltage sustainable by an insulating material, after which it loses its insulating properties
  • electroanesthesia — Anesthesia induced by cranial electrotherapy stimulation.
  • electroconvulsive — Of or relating to the treatment of mental illness by the application of electric shocks to the brain.
  • electrodeposition — The deposition of a metal on a cathode during electrolysis; used as a method of purification.
  • electrophysiology — The branch of physiology that deals with the electrical phenomena associated with nervous and other bodily activity.
  • electropositivity — (uncountable) the condition of being electropositive.
  • electrostatically — In an electrostatic manner, by electrostatic means.
  • 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.
  • english breakfast — An English breakfast is a breakfast consisting of cooked food such as bacon, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes. It also includes toast and tea or coffee.
  • enrolment figures — the numbers of people enrolling at an institution, on a course, etc
  • environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
  • esprit d'escalier — clever repartee one thinks of too late
  • ethinyloestradiol — Alternative form of ethinylestradiol.
  • experimental lisp — (language)   (xlisp) An experimental programming language combining a subset of Common Lisp with an object-oriented extension capability (Class and Object types). It was implemented by David Micheal Betz at Apple to allow experimentation with object-oriented programming on small computers. The C source code has been ported to Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari, and MS-DOS. Version 2.1 of the interpreter, by Tom Almy is closer to Common Lisp. E-mail: Tom Almy <[email protected]>.
  • extraterrestrials — Plural form of extraterrestrial.
  • false bread-fruit — ceriman.
  • financial futures — futures in a stock-exchange index, currency exchange rate, or interest rate enabling banks, building societies, brokers, and speculators to hedge their involvement in these markets
  • first-aid classes — classes which teach people how to give immediate medical help in an emergency
  • first-order logic — (language, logic)   The language describing the truth of mathematical formulas. Formulas describe properties of terms and have a truth value. The following are atomic formulas: True False p(t1,..tn) where t1,..,tn are terms and p is a predicate. If F1, F2 and F3 are formulas and v is a variable then the following are compound formulas: The "order" of a logic specifies what entities "For all" and "Exists" may quantify over. First-order logic can only quantify over sets of atomic propositions. (E.g. For all p . p => p). Second-order logic can quantify over functions on propositions, and higher-order logic can quantify over any type of entity. The sets over which quantifiers operate are usually implicit but can be deduced from well-formedness constraints. In first-order logic quantifiers always range over ALL the elements of the domain of discourse. By contrast, second-order logic allows one to quantify over subsets.
  • flickertail state — North Dakota (used as a nickname).
  • flight instrument — any instrument used to indicate the altitude, attitude, airspeed, drift, or direction of an aircraft.
  • florentine stitch — a straight stitch worked in a high and low relief pattern to form a variety of zigzag or oblique designs.
  • fluorescent light — a fluorescent lamp in domestic or commercial use; a fluorescent strip
  • fluorescent strip — a fluorescent light in the form of a long strip
  • fluvioterrestrial — (of animals) able to live in rivers and on land
  • fore-and-aft sail — any of various sails, as jib-headed sails, gaff sails, lugsails, lateen sails, spritsails, staysails, and jibs, that do not set on yards and whose normal position, when not trimmed, is in a fore-and-aft direction amidships.
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