17-letter words containing pen
- active suspension — a type of suspension in a car that is controlled by an onboard computer and improves the vehicle's roadholding so that it takes corners, accelerates, and brakes more smoothly
- all-expenses-paid — (of a holiday, trip, etc) free, with everything paid for
- answering pennant — one of the flags of the International Code of Signals, a pennant of three red and two white vertical stripes, flown at the dip while a message is being interpreted and close up when it is understood.
- at the expense of — If you achieve something at the expense of someone, you do it in a way which might cause them some harm or disadvantage.
- boothia peninsula — a peninsula of N Canada: the northernmost part of the mainland of North America, lying west of the Gulf of Boothia, an arm of the Arctic Ocean
- chelsea pensioner — an old ex-soldier resident in the Chelsea Royal Hospital
- chinagraph pencil — a coloured pencil used for writing on china, glass, etc
- chukchi peninsula — a peninsula in the extreme NE of Russia, in NE Siberia: mainly tundra
- compensated grade — a grade that has been reduced along a curve to offset the additional resistance due to the curve.
- compound pendulum — physical pendulum.
- consumer spending — the percentage of an economy that is accounted for by what consumers spend
- dispensationalism — the interpreting of history as a series of divine dispensations.
- eupen and malmédy — a region of Belgium in Liège province: ceded by Germany in 1919. Pop: 29 372 (2004 est)
- field penny-cress — the common penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense.
- foucault pendulum — a pendulum that demonstrates the rotation of the earth by exhibiting an apparent change in its plane of oscillation.
- go to ... expense — If you go to the expense of doing something, you do something which costs a lot of money. If you go to great expense to do something, you spend a lot of money in order to achieve it.
- graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
- gridiron pendulum — a clock pendulum having, as part of its shaft, an arrangement of brass and steel rods having different coefficients of expansion, such that the pendulum has the same length at any temperature.
- iambic pentameter — a verse line consisting of five metrical iambs
- iberian peninsula — Also called Iberian Peninsula. a peninsula in SW Europe, comprising Spain and Portugal.
- independence hall — the building in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
- independent audit — an audit of a company conducted by accountants from an outside accounting firm (distinguished from internal audit).
- independent axiom — in a set of axioms, one that cannot be proved by using the others in the set.
- indispensableness — The characteristic of being indispensable; indispensability.
- insulin-dependent — of or relating to the type of diabetes that mainly affects young people
- 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.
- lares and penates — household gods
- leizhou peninsula — a peninsula of SE China, in SW Guangdong province, separated from Hainan Island by Hainan Strait
- level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
- linear dependence — (in linear algebra) the property of a set of elements in a vector space in which at least one of the vectors in the set can be written as a linear combination of the others.
- lumpenproletariat — the lowest level of the proletariat comprising unskilled workers, vagrants, and criminals and characterized by a lack of class identification and solidarity.
- mechanical pencil — a pencil for holding lead that can be extended by mechanical means.
- modern pentathlon — an athletic contest consisting of five different events: horse riding with jumps, fencing with electric épée, freestyle swimming, pistol shooting, and cross-country running
- moon and sixpence — a novel (1919) by W. Somerset Maugham.
- oil of turpentine — a colorless, flammable, volatile essential oil having a penetrating odor and a pungent, bitter taste, obtained from turpentine oleoresin by distillation: used in paints and varnishes, and in medicine as a carminative, vermifuge, expectorant, rubefacient, and, formerly, as a diuretic.
- old age pensioner — An old age pensioner is a person who is old enough to receive an pension from their employer or the government.
- olympic peninsula — a large peninsula of W Washington
- open-channel flow — Open-channel flow is a liquid flow in a channel, which has a free liquid surface.
- open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
- opening arguments — the statements or arguments provided by lawyers at the beginning of a trial
- over-compensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- penalty shoot-out — In football, a penalty shoot-out is a way of deciding the result of a game that has ended in a draw. Players from each team try to score a goal in turn until one player fails to score and their team loses the game.
- penitential psalm — any of the Psalms (the 6th, 32nd, 38th, 51st, 102nd, 130th, and 143rd) that give expression to feelings of penitence and that are used in various Christian liturgical services.
- pension provision — the provision of a pension by the state or an employer
- pentachlorophenol — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 6 Cl 5 OH, used chiefly in fungicides, disinfectants, and wood preservatives.
- pentylenetetrazol — a white, crystalline, bitter-tasting, water-soluble powder, C 6 H 1 0 N 4 , used as a respiratory and circulatory stimulant, especially in the treatment of barbiturate poisoning, and to induce a convulsive state in the treatment of certain mental diseases.
- physical pendulum — any apparatus consisting of a body of possibly irregular shape allowed to rotate freely about a horizontal axis on which it is pivoted (distinguished from simple pendulum).
- poison-pen letter — A poison-pen letter is an unpleasant unsigned letter which is sent in order to upset someone or to cause trouble.
- post-independence — Also, independency. the state or quality of being independent.
- propelling pencil — a pencil consisting of a metal or plastic case containing a replaceable lead. As the point is worn away the lead can be extended, usually by turning part of the case
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