17-letter words containing ens
- over-compensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- pension provision — the provision of a pension by the state or an employer
- premonstratensian — a member of a religious order founded at Prémontré in N France in 1120 by St Norbert (about 1080–1134)
- queensberry rules — the code of rules followed in modern boxing, requiring the use of padded gloves, rounds of three minutes, and restrictions on the types of blows allowed
- 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
- sense of occasion — If there is a sense of occasion when a planned event takes place, people feel that something special and important is happening.
- sensitivity group — a group of persons participating in sensitivity training.
- sensory paralysis — impairment or loss of sensation in a part or area of the body
- spenserian sonnet — a sonnet employing the rhyme scheme abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.
- spenserian stanza — the stanza used by Spenser in his Faerie Queene and employed since by other poets, consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines and a final Alexandrine, with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc.
- standing expenses — fixed or flat expenses or charges
- statutory offense — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- surface condenser — a device condensing steam or vapor by passing it over a cool surface.
- suspension bridge — a bridge having a deck suspended from cables anchored at their extremities and usually raised on towers.
- suspension points — a group of dots, usually three, used in written material to indicate the omission of a word or words
- the perfect tense — the tense of a verb that indicates that the action has been completed
- the plot thickens — People sometimes say 'the plot thickens' when a situation or series of events is getting more and more complicated and mysterious.
- the present tense — the form of a verb that expresses an action that is happening now or at the time of speaking
- the tet offensive — an offensive launched in January–February 1968 by the North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong. Coinciding with the first day of the Tet, it was a surprise attack on South Vietnamese cities, including Saigon
- three-dimensional — having, or seeming to have, the dimension of depth as well as width and height.
- till eulenspiegel — a legendary German peasant of the 14th century whose practical jokes yielded many stories.
- tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
- undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- x image extension — (XIE) Extensions to the X protocol to handle images.