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17-letter words containing y, i, n

  • exclusionary rule — a legal rule that evidence obtained illegally, as from a search without a warrant, may not be introduced at trial
  • extraordinary ray — the plane-polarized ray of light that does not obey the laws of refraction in a doubly refracting crystal
  • factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
  • farming community — a community where farming is the main industry
  • fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
  • ferrimagnetically — In a ferrimagnetic manner.
  • field penny-cress — the common penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense.
  • firehose syndrome — (networking, jargon)   An absence, failure or inadequacy of flow control mechanisms causing the sender to overwhelm the receiver. The implication is that, like trying to drink from a firehose, the consequenses are worse than just loss of data, e.g. the receiver may crash. See ping-flood.
  • floating currency — a currency that is free to fluctuate against other currencies in accordance with market forces
  • floating dry dock — a dock that floats and can be lowered in the water for the entrance of a ship, and then raised for use as a dry dock
  • forcing frequency — the frequency of an oscillating force applied to a system
  • foreign secretary — foreign minister.
  • fountain of youth — a fabled spring whose waters were supposed to restore health and youth, sought in the Bahamas and Florida by Ponce de León, Narváez, De Soto, and others.
  • fraternal society — a club or other association, usually of men, having a limited membership and devoted to professional, religious, charitable, or social activities.
  • friend of dorothy — a male homosexual
  • front-line player — a regular player on a sports team or one who plays in the farthest forward position
  • funicular railway — a short, very steep railway having two parallel sets of tracks, upon each of which runs a car or train raised or lowered by means of a cable that simultaneously lowers or raises the other car or train in such a way that the two are approximately counterbalanced.
  • garlic mayonnaise — mayonnaise flavoured with garlic
  • general paralysis — a syphilitic brain disorder characterized by chronic inflammation and degeneration of cerebral tissue resulting in mental and physical deterioration.
  • gibbs free energy — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • glycosaminoglycan — any of a class of polysaccharides derived from hexosamine that form mucins when complexed with proteins: formerly called mucopolysaccharide.
  • glycosphingolipid — (biochemistry) a lipid that contains at least one monosaccharide unit and either a sphingoid or a ceramide.
  • gnu privacy guard —
  • go without saying — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
  • guilty conscience — Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
  • gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
  • haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
  • haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
  • hamiltonian cycle — Hamiltonian problem
  • harmonic analysis — the calculation of Fourier series and their generalization.
  • have a roving eye — to show a widespread amorous interest in the opposite sex
  • heavy mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
  • heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
  • heteronormativity — The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.
  • high-density disk — a computer storage disk capable of holding more than 720 kilobytes of data
  • highways engineer — a civil engineer trained and specialized in the planning, construction, maintenance, etc of highways and roads
  • holy roman empire — a Germanic empire located chiefly in central Europe that began with the coronation of Charlemagne as Roman emperor in a.d. 800 (or, according to some historians, with the coronation of Otto the Great, king of Germany, in a.d. 962) and ended with the renunciation of the Roman imperial title by Francis II in 1806, and was regarded theoretically as the continuation of the Western Empire and as the temporal form of a universal dominion whose spiritual head was the pope.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • homolytic fission — the dissociation of a molecule into two neutral fragments
  • 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.
  • huygens' eyepiece — a telescope eyepiece consisting of two planoconvex lenses separated by a distance equal to half the sum of their focal lengths, which are in the ratio of three to one, and oriented so that their curved surfaces face the incident light
  • hyaline cartilage — the typical, translucent form of cartilage, containing little fibrous tissue.
  • hydrogasification — a high-temperature, high-pressure process for producing liquid or gaseous fuels from fine particles of coal and hydrogen gas
  • hydrogen chloride — a colorless gas, HCl, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrochloric acid.
  • hydrogen fluoride — a colorless corrosive gas, HF, the anhydride of hydrofluoric acid, used chiefly as a catalyst and in the fluorination of hydrocarbons.
  • hydrogen peroxide — a colorless, unstable, oily liquid, H 2 O 2 , an aqueous solution of which is used chiefly as an antiseptic and a bleaching agent.
  • hydrogen sulphide — Chemistry
  • hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
  • hyper-intelligent — having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals: an intelligent student.
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