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17-letter words containing ad

  • outside broadcast — An outside broadcast is a radio or television programme that is not recorded or filmed in a studio, but in another building or in the open air.
  • over my dead body — expressing complete refusal
  • overhead camshaft — a camshaft in an automotive engine that is located in the cylinder head over the engine block rather than in the block. Abbreviation: OHC.
  • overhead lighting — lighting which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • pan and tilt head — a mounting device on which a camera may be rotated in a horizontal plane (pan) or in a vertical plane (tilt)
  • paradise regained — an epic poem (1671) by John Milton.
  • paradoxical sleep — REM sleep.
  • periodical cicada — seventeen-year locust.
  • permanent address — a fixed address
  • phumiphon aduldet — (Phumiphon Aduldet; Bhumibol Adulyadej) born 1927, king of Thailand since 1946.
  • piccadilly circus — a traffic circle and open square in W London, England: theater and amusement center.
  • polyadenylic acid — a homopolymer of adenylic acid enzymatically added to messenger RNA in eukaryotic cells to inhibit the hydrolytic breakdown of messenger RNA.
  • pressure gradient — the change of pressure per unit distance
  • proficiency badge — an insignia or device granted by the Girl Scouts and worn especially on a uniform to indicate special achievement.
  • promenade concert — a concert at which some of the audience stand rather than sit
  • pull your head in — be quiet!
  • purple granadilla — the edible fruit of any of several species of passionflower, especially Passiflora edulis (purple granadilla) or P. quadrangularis (giant granadilla)
  • quadratic formula — the formula for determining theroots of a quadratic equation from its coefficients: .
  • quadratic residue — a number x that is relatively prime to a given integer y and for which a number z exists whose square gives the same remainder as x when divided by y.
  • radial (ply) tire — a motor vehicle tire having a foundation of plies of rubberized cords running at right angles to the center line of the tread: it provides better handling, etc. than a bias ply tire
  • radial keratotomy — a surgical technique for correcting nearsightedness by making a series of spokelike incisions in the cornea to change its shape and focusing properties.
  • radiant emittance — radiant flux emitted per unit area.
  • radiant intensity — a measure of the amount of radiation emitted from a point expressed as the radiant flux per unit solid angle leaving this source
  • radiation pattern — the graphic representation of the strength and direction of electromagnetic radiation in the vicinity of a transmitting aerial
  • radiation therapy — x-rays used as treatment
  • radiative capture — the capture of a particle, as a neutron, by a nucleus, inducing the emission of electromagnetic radiation, as a gamma ray.
  • radio alarm clock — an alarm clock which consists of a radio that can be set to play at a particular time
  • radio in the loop — Wireless Local Loop
  • radio-transparent — transparent to radiation; invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiopaque).
  • radioactive decay — decay (def 8).
  • radioactive waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
  • radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
  • railroad crossing — place for vehicles to cross train tracks
  • read the riot act — an English statute of 1715 providing that if 12 or more persons assemble unlawfully and riotously, to the disturbance of the public peace, and refuse to disperse upon proclamation they shall be considered guilty of felony.
  • read-write memory — a type of computer memory that you can write to as well as read from
  • reading knowledge — the ability to read a language, but not speak it
  • ready and waiting — If you want to emphasize that a person is properly prepared for something, or that something can now be used, you can say that they are ready and waiting.
  • receding forehead — a forehead which slopes backwards
  • remittance advice — a letter sent by a customer to a supplier, to let them know that their invoice has been paid
  • right in the head — sane
  • road construction — the building of roads
  • road-fund licence — a licence showing that the tax payable in respect of a motor vehicle has been paid
  • russell's paradox — a paradox of set theory in which an object is defined in terms of a class of objects that contains the object being defined, resulting in a logical contradiction.
  • sacrifice paddock — a grassed area allowed to be grazed completely, to be cultivated and resown later
  • salt-rising bread — a kind of bread leavened with a fermented mixture of salted milk, cornmeal, flour, sugar, and soda.
  • samurai tradition — the body of customs, thought, practices, etc belonging to the samurai warrior caste of Japan
  • self-administered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
  • seven deadly sins — Christianity: worst vices
  • shopping bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
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