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17-letter words containing u, n, p, r, e

  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • counterproductive — Something that is counterproductive achieves the opposite result from the one that you want to achieve.
  • counterpropaganda — propaganda to offset or nullify unfriendly or enemy propaganda.
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • creeping eruption — a skin eruption with intense itching, caused by the burrowing of various larvae under the skin
  • cut a person dead — to ignore a person completely
  • d&o insurance — D&O insurance is a personal liability insurance that provides cover to the directors and senior executives of a company.
  • 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)
  • disrespectfulness — The state or quality of being disrespectful; disrespect; disregard.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • drop one's bundle — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
  • duality principle — the principle that a mathematical duality exists under certain conditions.
  • emission spectrum — the continuous spectrum or pattern of bright lines or bands seen when the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a substance is passed into a spectrometer. The spectrum is characteristic of the emitting substance and the type of excitation to which it is subjected
  • entrepreneurially — In an entrepreneurial manner.
  • equal opportunity — policies that bar discrimination
  • 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
  • feint-ruled paper — writing paper with light horizontal lines printed across at regular intervals
  • fictitious person — a legal entity or artificial person, as a corporation.
  • fluorescent strip — a fluorescent light in the form of a long strip
  • frequency polygon — a frequency curve consisting of connected line segments formed by joining the midpoints of the upper edges of the rectangles in a histogram whose class intervals are of uniform length.
  • full linear group — the group of all nonsingular linear transformations mapping a finite-dimensional vector space into itself.
  • gause's principle — the principle that similar species cannot coexist for long in the same ecological niche
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • gridiron pendulum — a clock pendulum having, as part of its shaft, an arrangement of brass and steel rods having different coefficients of expansion, such that the pendulum has the same length at any temperature.
  • have a reputation — to be known or notorious, esp for promiscuity, excessive drinking, or the like
  • heating apparatus — an apparatus that heats something
  • henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
  • 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.
  • hundred-percenter — a completely patriotic, sometimes jingoistic person.
  • huygens principle — the principle that all points on a wave front of light are sources of secondary waves and that surfaces tangential to these waves define the position of the wave front at any point in time.
  • hydrogen sulphide — Chemistry
  • hyperintellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
  • 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.
  • iberian peninsula — Also called Iberian Peninsula. a peninsula in SW Europe, comprising Spain and Portugal.
  • immunocompromised — having an impaired or compromised immune response; immunodeficient.
  • immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
  • immunosuppression — the inhibition of the normal immune response because of disease, the administration of drugs, or surgery.
  • immunosuppressive — capable of causing immunosuppression: immunosuppressive drugs.
  • immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
  • in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
  • incubation period — the period between infection and the appearance of signs of a disease.
  • indecent exposure — the intentional exposure of one's body's privates in a manner that gives offense against accepted or prescribed behavior.
  • influence peddler — a person who arranges to obtain favors, as government contracts, from high officials on behalf of others for a fee.
  • insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • insurance premium — payment on an insurance policy
  • interrupt handler — (software)   A routine which is executed when an interrupt occurs. Interrupt handlers typically deal with low-level events in the hardware of a computer system such as a character arriving at a serial port or a tick of a real-time clock. Special care is required when writing an interrupt handler to ensure that either the interrupt which triggered the handler's execution is masked out (inhibitted) until the handler exits, or the handler is re-entrant so that multiple concurrent invocations will not interfere with each other. If interrupts are masked then the handler must execute as quickly as possible so that important events are not missed. This is often arranged by splitting the processing associated with the event into "upper" and "lower" halves. The lower part is the interrupt handler which masks out further interrupts as required, checks that the appropriate event has occurred (this may be necessary if several events share the same interrupt), services the interrupt, e.g. by reading a character from a UART and writing it to a queue, and re-enabling interrupts. The upper half executes as part of a user process. It waits until the interrupt handler has run. Normally the operating system is responsible for reactivating a process which is waiting for some low-level event. It detects this by a shared flag or by inspecting a shared queue or by some other synchronisation mechanism. It is important that the upper and lower halves do not interfere if an interrupt occurs during the execution of upper half code. This is usually ensured by disabling interrupts during critical sections of code such as removing a character from a queue.
  • interrupt request — (IRQ) The name of an input found on many processors which causes the processor to suspend normal instruction execution temporarily and to start executing an interrupt handler routine. Such an input may be either "level sensitive" - the interrupt condition will persist as long as the input is active or "edge triggered" - an interrupt is signalled by a low-to-high or high-to-low transition on the input. Some processors have several interrupt request inputs allowing different priority interrupts.
  • interrupted screw — a screw having the thread interrupted in one or more places by longitudinal channels, as in the breech of a cannon or the lead screw of a lathe.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
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