17-letter words containing ati
- non-communication — the act or process of communicating; fact of being communicated.
- non-communicative — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- non-confrontation — an act of confronting.
- non-consideration — the act of considering; careful thought; meditation; deliberation: I will give your project full consideration.
- non-contamination — the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc.
- non-demonstrative — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
- non-incriminating — to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
- non-proliferation — Non-proliferation is the limiting of the production and spread of something such as nuclear or chemical weapons.
- non-reciprocating — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- non-subordination — the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
- nondenominational — of or relating to a denomination or denominations.
- nondiscriminating — differentiating; analytical.
- nondiscrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
- nonrepresentative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- nuclear radiation — Physics. radiation in the form of elementary particles emitted by an atomic nucleus, as alpha rays or gamma rays, produced by decay of radioactive substances or by nuclear fission.
- nursery education — education provided at a school for young children, usually from three to five years old
- observation tower — lookout, observation point
- office automation — a method or system of using automated or electronic equipment, as word processors and computers, in the operations of an office.
- on the foundation — an endowment or legacy for the perpetual support of an institution such as a school or hospital
- operating theatre — An operating theatre is a special room in a hospital where surgeons carry out medical operations.
- operation sealion — the codename for Hitler's proposed invasion (1940) of Great Britain
- operations centre — a centre where activities of a business, organization, etc, are administrated and take place
- orthogonalization — (mathematics) The process of converting a set of functions or vectors into orthogonal ones.
- osculating circle — circle of curvature.
- over-appreciation — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
- over-compensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- over-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- overconcentration — the act of concentrating; the state of being concentrated.
- overdetermination — the concept that a single emotional symptom or event, as a dream or a slip of the tongue, may be caused by more than one factor.
- pair annihilation — Physics. annihilation (def 3a).
- paleoconservative — a person advocating an older, traditional type of conservatism, especially in politics.
- particularization — to make particular.
- passenger station — a station used by passengers
- per procurationem — by one acting as an agent; by proxy.
- perforation gauge — a marked ruler used to measure the number of perforations per unit length along the borders of a stamp.
- permutation group — a mathematical group whose elements are permutations and in which the product of two permutations is the same permutation as is obtained by performing them in succession.
- personal equation — the tendency to personal bias that accounts for variation in interpretation or approach and for which allowance must be made.
- photo-respiration — the oxidation of carbohydrates in many higher plants in which they get oxygen from light and then release carbon dioxide, somewhat different from photosynthesis.
- photodissociation — the dissociation or breakdown of a chemical compound by radiant energy.
- photoreactivation — a process that repairs DNA damaged by ultraviolet light using an enzyme that requires visible light.
- pitching rotation — the regular, scheduled succession of starting pitchers designated by a manager: a four-man pitching rotation in September.
- pitot-static tube — a device combining a Pitot tube with a static tube: used to measure airspeed.
- platinic chloride — chloroplatinic acid.
- postal stationery — an envelope, postal card, wrapper, or aérogramme, with the stamp printed directly on the paper.
- posttranslational — Genetics, Biochemistry. occurring after the synthesis of a polypeptide chain.
- pre-authorization — the act of authorizing.
- pre-communication — the act or process of communicating; fact of being communicated.
- pre-concentration — the act of concentrating; the state of being concentrated.
- pre-configuration — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- pre-incorporation — the act of incorporating or the state of being incorporated.