17-letter words containing ape
- acquaintance rape — a rape that is carried out by someone that the victim knows
- anchor escapement — an escapement in which wedge-shaped pallets engage with an escape wheel having pointed teeth, usually facing in the direction of revolution, so that the escape wheel recoils slightly at every release.
- aperture priority — an automatic exposure system in which the photographer selects the aperture and the camera then automatically sets the correct shutter speed
- aperture-priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the aperture and the camera selects the shutter speed.
- bell-shaped curve — bell curve
- bent out of shape — very angry, upset, or agitated
- brocot escapement — a type of anchor escapement.
- cape barren goose — a greyish Australian goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae, having a black bill with a greenish cere
- cape horn current — the part of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current flowing E at Cape Horn.
- cape of good hope — a cape in SW South Africa south of Cape Town
- chemotherapeutics — chemotherapy.
- combe-capelle man — a skeleton of the early Upper Paleolithic Perigordian culture in France.
- digital audiotape — a cassette containing magnetic tape used for high-fidelity digital recording or playback of audio. Abbreviation: DAT.
- drool-proof paper — (jargon) Documentation that has been obsessively dumbed down, to the point where only a cretin could bear to read it, is said to have succumbed to the "drool-proof paper syndrome" or to have been "written on drool-proof paper". For example, this is an actual quote from Apple Computer's LaserWriter manual: "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open fire or flame."
- examination paper — a paper with examination questions printed on it set to test the knowledge of examination candidates
- feint-ruled paper — writing paper with light horizontal lines printed across at regular intervals
- grapefruit league — a series of training games played by major-league teams before the opening of the season (so named because they take place in the citrus-growing South, as in Florida).
- greaseproof paper — Greaseproof paper is a special kind of paper which does not allow fat or oil to pass through it. It is mainly used in cooking or to wrap food.
- hydrotherapeutics — hydrotherapy.
- immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
- landscape painter — artist who depicts natural scenery
- landscaped garden — a garden that has been artistically designed
- metaperiodic acid — the crystalline compound HIO4, an oxyacid of iodine
- newspaper cutting — clipping from a news publication
- paraperiodic acid — the crystalline compound H5IO6, an oxyacid of iodine
- phototherapeutics — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of light rays.
- psychotherapeutic — psychotherapy.
- quality newspaper — a more serious newspaper which gives detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
- quality paperback — a softbound book that is usually larger and more expensive than a mass market paperback and is sold primarily in bookstores as a trade book.
- recoil escapement — anchor escapement.
- reel-to-reel tape — open-reel tape.
- relative aperture — the ratio of the diameter of a lens, especially a camera lens, to the focal length; the reciprocal of the f number or focal ratio of the lens.
- scrape the barrel — to be forced to use one's last and weakest resource
- single-name paper — commercial paper bearing only the signature of the maker.
- tapestry brussels — a carpet made with three-ply or four-ply worsted yarn drawn up in uncut loops to form a pattern over the entire surface (body Brussels) or made of worsted or woolen yarns on which a pattern is printed (tapestry Brussels)
- therapeutic index — the ratio between the dosage of a drug that causes a lethal effect and the dosage that causes a therapeutic effect.
- therapeutic touch — the laying on of hands by a healer
- wastepaper basket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
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