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17-letter words containing u, n, a, r, o

  • double track line — a railway line with double track
  • douglas engelbart — (person)   Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. On 1968-12-09, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, USA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the on live system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking and shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. The original 90-minute video: Hyperlinks, Mouse, Web-board.
  • drained of colour — colourless
  • drinking fountain — a water fountain that ejects a jet of water for drinking without a cup.
  • equal opportunity — policies that bar discrimination
  • equatorial guinea — a republic of W Africa, consisting of Río Muni on the mainland and the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea, with four smaller islands: ceded by Portugal to Spain in 1778; gained independence in 1968. Official languages: Spanish and French. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: franc. Capital: Malabo. Pop: 704 000 (2013 est). Area: 28 049 sq km (10 830 sq miles)
  • european standard — a specification to be used as a consistent rule or guideline in the manufacture or selling of a certain product or service traded within Europe
  • exclusionary rule — a legal rule that evidence obtained illegally, as from a search without a warrant, may not be introduced at trial
  • fade in (or out) — to appear or cause to appear (or disappear) gradually; make or become more (or less) distinct
  • farming community — a community where farming is the main industry
  • fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
  • floating currency — a currency that is free to fluctuate against other currencies in accordance with market forces
  • flower-of-an-hour — a malvaceous Old World herbaceous plant, Hibiscus trionum, having pale yellow flowers with a bladder-like calyx
  • flowering currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes sanguineum, growing to 2 to 3 metres (6 to 9ft) in height, with red, crimson, yellow, or white flowers: family Saxifragaceae
  • fluid lubrication — lubrication in which bearing surfaces are separated by an oil film sustained by the motion of the parts
  • folie de grandeur — a delusion of grandeur; megalomania.
  • forward quotation — the price quoted on a forward delivery.
  • foundation course — A foundation course is a course that you do at some colleges and universities in order to prepare yourself for a longer or more advanced course.
  • four-part harmony — harmony in which each chord has four tones, creating, in sum, four melodic lines.
  • four-star general — high-ranking military officer
  • fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
  • full linear group — the group of all nonsingular linear transformations mapping a finite-dimensional vector space into itself.
  • full load current — A full load current is the largest current that a motor or other device is designed to carry under particular conditions.
  • functional isomer — any of several structural isomers that have the same molecular formula but with the atoms connected in different ways and therefore falling into different functional groups.
  • further education — adult education.
  • gastrojejunostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • grand touring car — GT (def 2).
  • grand union canal — a canal in S England linking London and the Midlands: opened in 1801
  • ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
  • guglielmo marconi — Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
  • guinea-hen flower — checkered lily.
  • gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
  • gupta corporation — (company)   The vendor of SQLWindows. Gupta Corporation provides application development and deployment software for client-server applications, consisting of a relational database, application development tools and transparent connectivity software. Gupta employs 400 people in 15 offices worldwide, including the United States, Europe and Asia. Gupta's 1993 fiscal year income was $5.6 million and their revenue was $56.1 million. Gupta sells client-server system components for networks of personal computers. Address: 1060 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Telephone: +1 (415) 321 9500. Fax: +1 (415) 321 5471.
  • half-round chisel — a cold chisel with a semicircular cutting edge used for making narrow channels
  • hard nut to crack — a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
  • haroun-al-raschid — Harun al-Rashid.
  • have a reputation — to be known or notorious, esp for promiscuity, excessive drinking, or the like
  • henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • hot-and-sour soup — a spicy Chinese soup made with pork, chicken, beans, vinegar, etc., served hot
  • 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.
  • hungarian goulash — goulash (def 1).
  • hydrofluorocarbon — Any of a class of partly chlorinated and fluorinated hydrocarbons, used as an alternative to chlorofluorocarbons in foam production, refrigeration, and other processes.
  • i beg your pardon — You say 'Pardon?' or 'I beg your pardon?' or, in American English, 'Pardon me?' when you want someone to repeat what they have just said because you have not heard or understood it.
  • illocutionary act — an act performed by a speaker by virtue of uttering certain words, as for example the acts of promising or of threatening
  • immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
  • immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
  • in double harness — in a harness for two animals pulling the same carriage, plow, etc.
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