17-letter words containing ie
- credit facilities — a type of loan made by a bank
- curie-temperature — the temperature beyond that at which a ferromagnetic substance exhibits paramagnetism.
- dante (alighieri) — (born Durante Alighieri) 1265-1321; It. poet: wrote The Divine Comedy
- david copperfield — a novel (1850) by Charles Dickens.
- dielectrophoresis — Dielectrophoresis is the movement of uncharged particles (= ones with no electrical charge) when a changing electric field is applied.
- diethylene glycol — a syrupy colorless liquid, C 4 H 10 O 3 , used as a solvent for cellulose nitrate and as a fabric softener.
- diethyltryptamine — a synthetic derivative of tryptamine with hallucinogenic and psychotogenic effects. Abbreviation: DET.
- dietrich von bern — Theodoric of Verona: the name of the eastern Gothic emperor Theodoric as it appears in German legends.
- dieu et mon droit — God and my right: motto of the Royal Arms of Great Britain
- dutch east indies — a former name of the Republic of Indonesia.
- dutch west indies — a Netherlands overseas territory in the Caribbean Sea, N and NE of Venezuela; includes the islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, and St. Eustatius, and the S part of St. Martin: considered an integral part of the Dutch realm. 366 sq. mi. (948 sq. km). Capital: Willemstad.
- efficiency expert — a person who studies the methods, procedures, and job characteristics of a business or factory with the object of devising ways to increase the efficiency of equipment and personnel.
- electrified fence — a barrier that uses electric shocks to deter animals or people from crossing a boundary
- energy efficiency — a measure of how efficiently an appliance, building, organization or country uses energy
- enzyme deficiency — failure of the body to produce a specific enzy
- esprit d'escalier — clever repartee one thinks of too late
- experience rating — Experience rating is a method of adjusting the premium for a risk based on past loss experience for that risk compared to loss experience for an average risk.
- export-orientated — (of an industry, company, etc) mainly concerned with the export of goods or services
- feathered friends — Birds are sometimes referred to as our feathered friends.
- field penny-cress — the common penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense.
- field post office — a place to which mail intended for military units in the field is sent to be sorted and forwarded
- field sales force — a team of people selling a product or service in the field as opposed to over the telephone, etc
- flight lieutenant — A flight lieutenant is an officer of middle rank in the British air force.
- folie de grandeur — a delusion of grandeur; megalomania.
- fouquier-tinville — Antoine Quentin [ahn-twan kahn-tan] /ɑ̃ˈtwan kɑ̃ˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1747?–95, French revolutionist: prosecutor during the Reign of Terror.
- fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
- fraternal society — a club or other association, usually of men, having a limited membership and devoted to professional, religious, charitable, or social activities.
- friend of dorothy — a male homosexual
- garage proprietor — a person who owns a commercial establishment in which motor vehicles are repaired, serviced, bought, and sold
- general sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- george whitefield — George, 1714–70, English Methodist evangelist.
- get one's jollies — to have fun or get pleasure; often, specif., from that which is cheap or disreputable
- good-time charlie — an affable, sociable, pleasure-loving man.
- guglielmo marconi — Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
- guilty conscience — Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
- hemiglossectomies — Plural form of hemiglossectomy.
- homo floresiensis — a possible species of very small, primitive human: its fossils were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003.
- how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs
- huygens' eyepiece — a telescope eyepiece consisting of two planoconvex lenses separated by a distance equal to half the sum of their focal lengths, which are in the ratio of three to one, and oriented so that their curved surfaces face the incident light
- image intensifier — any of various devices for amplifying the intensity of an optical image, sometimes used in conjunction with an image converter
- inalienable right — right that cannot be taken away
- incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- indicator species — See at indicator (def 6).
- instrumentalities — Plural form of instrumentality.
- insurance carrier — company issuing an insurance policy
- interdependencies — the quality or condition of being interdependent, or mutually reliant on each other: Globalization of economies leads to an ever-increasing interdependence of countries.
- kolar gold fields — a city in S India, in SE Karnataka: a major gold-mining centre since 1881. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
- ladies' auxiliary — an organization usually made up of the wives of members of another organization
- ladies-in-waiting — plural of lady-in-waiting.
- lanthanide series — the series of rare-earth elements of atomic numbers 57 through 71 (lanthanum through lutetium).