17-letter words containing t, y, r, o, n

pre-revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
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.
presentation copy — a copy of a book given by the publisher or author
primary dentition — the deciduous dentition
primary education — junior, elementary schooling
primary intention — Logic. See under intention (def 5a).
primary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
priority check-in — Priority check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in without waiting in a line.
production system — (programming) A production system consists of a collection of productions (rules), a working memory of facts and an algorithm, known as forward chaining, for producing new facts from old. A rule becomes eligible to "fire" when its conditions match some set of elements currently in working memory. A conflict resolution strategy determines which of several eligible rules (the conflict set) fires next. A condition is a list of symbols which represent constants, which must be matched exactly; variables which bind to the thing they match and "<> symbol" which matches a field not equal to symbol. Example production systems are OPS5, CLIPS, flex.
prohibition party — a U.S. political party organized in 1869, advocating the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
proof of identity — a document or documents used to verify someone's identity
proprietary brand — a brand of product that is privately owned and controlled
protein synthesis — the process by which amino acids are linearly arranged into proteins through the involvement of ribosomal RNA, transfer RNA, messenger RNA, and various enzymes.
protocol analyser — (communications, hardware, networking, testing, tool) Any device that captures and interprets the network traffic between two or more connected computer systems. The traffic can then be decoded so that it is possible to see what processes are occurring. By examining the flow of traffic, protocol analysers can be used to find out where problems (such as bottlenecks or the failure of a network device) are on a LAN. Advanced protocol analysers can also provide statistics on the traffic that can help to identify trends that may in future lead to further problems with the network.
pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
quantity surveyor — A quantity surveyor is a person who calculates the cost and amount of materials and workers needed for a job such as building a house or a road.
radiation therapy — x-rays used as treatment
rapid prototyping — (programming) The creation of a working model of a software module to demonstrate the feasibility and suitability of the function. The prototype is expected to be replaced or refined before inclusion in the final product. Rapid prototyping contrasts with a DIRFT approach which emphasises careful design and implementation to avoid the overheads of debugging and testing prototype code. Rapid prototyping is appropriate when the requirements are unclear or likely to change (which is most of the time).
recovery position — a position in which an unconscious person can be lain on the floor, which minimises them from further risk
recrystallization — to become crystallized again.
regent honeyeater — a large brightly-coloured Australian honeyeater, Zanthomiza phrygia
reiter's syndrome — a disease of unknown cause, occurring primarily in adult males, marked by urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis.
repertory company — repertory (def 2).
respiratory chain — a series of mitochondrial proteins that transport electrons of hydrogen, released in the Krebs cycle, from acetyl coenzyme A to inhaled oxygen to form H 2 O: the energy released in the process is conserved as ATP.
reticulate python — a python, Python reticulatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, sometimes growing to a length of 32 feet (10 meters): usually considered to be the largest snake in the world.
revolutionary war — American Revolution.
rocket technology — the technology of the design, operation, maintenance, and launching of rockets
ross and cromarty — a historic county in NW Scotland.
royal institution — a British society founded in 1799 for the dissemination of scientific knowledge
rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
safety precaution — a precaution that is taken in order to ensure that something is safe and not dangerous
scientific theory — a coherent group of propositions formulated to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world and repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation: the scientific theory of evolution.
secondary battery — storage battery.
secondary boycott — a boycott by union members against their employer in order to induce the employer to bring pressure on another company involved in a labor dispute with the union.
secondary contact — communication or relationship between people characterized by impersonal and detached interest on the part of those involved.
secondary product — a product that is not the main product of an industry; a by-product
secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
sensitivity group — a group of persons participating in sensitivity training.
separation energy — binding energy (def 1).
shorthold tenancy — letting of a dwelling for between one and five years at a fair rent
situational irony — irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.
sixty-fourth note — a note having one sixty-fourth of the time value of a whole note; hemidemisemiquaver.
split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
split personality — multiple personality.
stage-door johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
stand your ground — relating to or denoting a legal principle or law that eliminates the duty to retreat by allowing, as a first response, self-defense by deadly force: We’re proud to represent Florida, the first stand your ground state.
stationary engine — an engine mounted in a fixed position, as one used for driving generators, compressors, etc.
statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
statutory offense — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.

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