0%

17-letter words containing ele

  • gigaelectron volt — one billion electron-volts. Abbreviation: GeV, Gev.
  • helen keller mode — 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.e. accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into deep space. (Unfair to the real Helen Keller, whose success at learning speech was triumphant.) See also go flatline, catatonic. 2. On IBM PCs under MS-DOS, refers to a specific failure mode in which a screen saver has kicked in over an ill-behaved application which bypasses the very interrupts the screen saver watches for activity. Your choices are to try to get from the program's current state through a successful save-and-exit without being able to see what you're doing, or to re-boot the machine. This isn't (strictly speaking) a crash.
  • high-heeled shoes — shoes having high, rather than flat, heels
  • hydroelectrically — Using hydroelectric power.
  • ignoratio elenchi — the fallacy of offering proof irrelevant to the proposition in question.
  • insertion element — a section of DNA that is capable of becoming inserted into another chromosome
  • isoelectric point — the pH at which a substance is electrically neutral or at which it is at its minimum ionization.
  • kerguelen islands — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
  • kiloelectron volt — 1000 electron-volts. Abbreviation: keV, kev.
  • kvatro telecom as — (company)   The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
  • lancashire heeler — a small sturdy dog of a breed with a short thick black or liver-coloured coat with tan markings, often used for herding cattle
  • mains electricity — electricity supplied to a building through wires
  • mechanoelectrical — Describing the production of electricity by mechanical motion; especially in a transducer.
  • megaelectron volt — million electron volts.
  • midterm elections — elections held halfway through the term of office of a president during which governors, etc, but not a president, are elected
  • natural selection — the process by which forms of life having traits that better enable them to adapt to specific environmental pressures, as predators, changes in climate, or competition for food or mates, will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers than others of their kind, thus ensuring the perpetuation of those favorable traits in succeeding generations.
  • off-year election — (in the US) an election held in a year when a presidential election does not take place
  • positive electron — positron.
  • prolonged-release — A prolonged-release drug delivers a dose of a medication over an extended period of time.
  • public television — a type of noncommercial, usually educational, television programming funded by the government, grants, viewers, and corporations. Compare educational television.
  • red-billed quelea — any of several African weaverbirds of the genus Quelea, especially Q. quelea (red-billed quelea) noted for its vast flocks that destroy grain crops.
  • schmidt telescope — a wide-angle reflecting telescope used primarily for astronomical photography, in which spherical aberration and coma are reduced to a minimum by means of a spherical mirror with a corrector plate near its focus.
  • selective amnesia — the deliberate forgetting of something
  • selective service — compulsory military service.
  • smokeless tobacco — snuff1 (def 9).
  • socratic elenchus — the drawing out of the consequences of a position in order to show them to be contrary to some accepted position
  • sustained-release — (of a drug or fertilizer) capable of gradual release of an active agent over a period of time, allowing for a sustained effect; timed-release; long-acting; prolonged-action; slow-release.
  • telecommunicating — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • telecommunication — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
  • telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
  • telephone message — a message that is transmitted by telephone
  • telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
  • telephone service — a company or public utility that provides a telephone-operating service
  • telescopic damper — a device with telescopic parts that reduce vibration in a motor vehicle
  • television lounge — a room in a hotel, guest house, etc where guests may watch television
  • television rights — the rights to televise something, such as a sporting event
  • television screen — the flat vertical surface in a television set on which pictures are shown
  • the electoral map — a map showing the distribution of constituencies over a country
  • thermoelectricity — electricity generated by heat or temperature difference, as in a thermocouple.
  • valence electrons — an electron of an atom, located in the outermost shell (valence shell) of the atom, that can be transferred to or shared with another atom.
  • wireless internet — access to the internet without a cable
  • wireless operator — a radio operator
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?