17-letter words containing y, e, t, i, s
- a different story — You use a different story to refer to a situation, usually a bad one, which exists in one set of circumstances when you have mentioned that it does not exist in another set of circumstances.
- absolute humidity — the humidity of the atmosphere, usually expressed as the number of grams of water contained in 1 cubic metre of air
- absolute majority — If a political party wins an absolute majority, they obtain more seats or votes than the total number of seats or votes gained by their opponents in an election.
- abstinence theory — the theory that interest is payment for conserving current income.
- acanthopterygians — Plural form of acanthopterygian.
- accessory pigment — any pigment in plants that can absorb light energy and pass the electrons along to the primary pigment which starts the process of photosynthesis.
- accounting system — the way in which a company keeps its accounts
- amoebic dysentery — inflammation of the intestines caused by the parasitic amoeba Endamoeba histolytica
- anti-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- antihypertensives — Plural form of antihypertensive.
- api gravity scale — the American Petroleum Institute gravity scale: a universally accepted scale of the relative density of fluids that is used in fuel technology and is measured in degrees API. One degree API is equal to (141.5/d)–131.5, where d = relative density at 288.7K
- assembly district — one of a fixed number of districts into which a state is divided, each district electing one member to the lower house of the state legislature.
- associative array — (programming) (Or "hash", "map", "dictionary") An array where the indices are not just integers but may be arbitrary strings.
- astronomical year — year (def 4b).
- asymmetrical bars — a set of parallel bars, having one bar fixed at 230 cm (7 ft, 6 in) and the other at 150 cm (4 ft, 11 in), used by women gymnasts
- attorneys-in-fact — a person authorized by power of attorney to act on the authorizer's behalf outside a court of law.
- auxiliary storage — secondary storage.
- be sitting pretty — If you say that someone is sitting pretty, you mean that they are in a good, safe, or comfortable position.
- be that as it may — You say 'Be that as it may' when you want to move onto another subject or go further with the discussion, without deciding whether what has just been said is right or wrong.
- beauty specialist — a person who helps someone to improve their beauty, such as a make-up artist
- bicycle motocross — a bicycle race over a rough cross-country course, usually consisting of jumps, obstacles, and turns. Abbreviation: BMX.
- bitmapped display — bitmap display
- blue-sky thinking — Blue-sky thinking is the activity of trying to find completely new ideas.
- buyers' inflation — inflation in which rising demand results in a rise in prices.
- cache consistency — cache coherency
- campus university — a university in which the buildings, often including shops and cafés, are all on one site
- cardiorespiratory — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and respiratory system.
- chartered society — a society that has an official charter
- cholecystectomies — Plural form of cholecystectomy.
- circumscriptively — In a circumscriptive manner.
- classless society — a society in which class distinctions are negligible or absent
- collision density — the rate at which collisions are occurring per unit volume per unit time, usually pertaining to the collisions of neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
- colloid chemistry — the study of colloids.
- commodity markets — stock markets in which commodities are traded
- community service — Community service is unpaid work that criminals sometimes do as a punishment instead of being sent to prison.
- comprehensibility — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- computer security — security
- conspiracy theory — A conspiracy theory is a belief that a group of people are secretly trying to harm someone or achieve something. You usually use this term to suggest that you think this is unlikely.
- coordinate system — a system of coordinates that uses numbers to represent a point, line, or the like.
- copernican system — the theory published in 1543 by Copernicus which stated that the earth and the planets rotated around the sun and which opposed the Ptolemaic system
- coronary arteries — either of two arteries that originate in the aorta and supply the heart muscle with blood.
- counterinsurgency — action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
- counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
- cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
- cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
- cryptocrystalline — (of rocks) composed of crystals that can be distinguished individually only by the use of a polarizing microscope
- cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
- cytotechnologists — the study of human cells to detect signs of cancer or other abnormalities.
- deadly nightshade — a poisonous Eurasian solanaceous plant, Atropa belladonna, having dull purple bell-shaped flowers and small very poisonous black berries
- delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
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