17-letter words containing t, a, m, p, g
- mongolian hot pot — a stewlike dish of sliced meat, seafood, and vegetables cooked together in hot broth, often in a clay pot, and seasoned with a hot sauce.
- multiple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of more than one variable and which requires for evaluation repetition of the integration process.
- non-profit-making — A non-profit-making organization or charity is not run with the intention of making a profit.
- on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
- opening arguments — the statements or arguments provided by lawyers at the beginning of a trial
- optical computing — (hardware) (Or "Optical Signal Processing") Operating on data represented using electromagnetic radiation, e.g. visible light, instead of the electrical signals used in a conventional electronic digital computer. Electronic digital computers are built from transistors. These form components that store data and logic gates that perform the low-level Boolean operations such as AND, OR and NOT that are the basis of all digital computation. The optical equivalent requires material with a non-linear refractive index such that light beams can interact with each other to perform the same Boolean operations. Though the photons that carry optical signals offer some theoretical advantages over the electrons that carry electronic signals, there are many practical problems that would have to be overcome before optical computing could compete in terms of cost, power and speed.
- palaeoclimatology — the study of climates of the geological past
- paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
- peak viewing time — the time at which the largest numbers of the population are watching television
- permutation group — a mathematical group whose elements are permutations and in which the product of two permutations is the same permutation as is obtained by performing them in succession.
- 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
- picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
- popular etymology — folk etymology.
- portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
- postage due stamp — a stamp that is affixed to mail at a post office when prepayment of postage is insufficient, to indicate the amount that must be collected from the addressee.
- powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
- program generator — a computer program that can be used to help to create other computer programs
- program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
- putative marriage — a marriage contracted in violation of an impediment, but in good faith on the part of one or both of the contracting persons.
- quantum computing — quantum computer
- radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
- 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 ….
- repeating firearm — a firearm capable of discharging a number of shots without reloading.
- request programme — a programme on the radio where listeners can request certain songs or tracks
- self-impregnating — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- septicemic plague — an especially dangerous form of plague in which the infecting organisms invade the bloodstream. Compare plague (def 2).
- sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
- spinal meningitis — infection of spinal membrane
- steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
- supply management — business purchasing
- sympathetic magic — magic predicated on the belief that one thing or event can affect another at a distance as a consequence of a sympathetic connection between them.
- telephone message — a message that is transmitted by telephone
- temperature gauge — a device which shows the temperature or heat of something
- youth programming — the creation and scheduling of television programmes specifically aimed at young people
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.