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17-letter words containing pri

  • altamonte springs — a city in central Florida.
  • aperture priority — an automatic exposure system in which the photographer selects the aperture and the camera then automatically sets the correct shutter speed
  • aperture-priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the aperture and the camera selects the shutter speed.
  • april fool's joke — (humour, event)   (AFJ) Elaborate April Fool's hoaxes are a long-established tradition on Usenet and Internet; see kremvax for an example. In fact, April Fool's Day is the *only* seasonal holiday marked by customary observances on the hacker networks.
  • banking principle — the principle that bank notes are a form of credit and should be issued freely in order to maintain an elastic currency.
  • belleville spring — a spring having the form of a washer or dished disk with an open center, used for cushioning heavy loads with short motion.
  • california privet — a privet, Ligustrum ovalifolium, of the olive family, native to Japan, having glossy, oval leaves and long clusters of white flowers, widely used for hedges in the U.S.
  • computer printout — a document that is printed from a computer file
  • consolation prize — A consolation prize is a small prize which is given to a person who fails to win a competition.
  • cost-plus pricing — the setting of prices at the cost price plus a percentage
  • cypriot syllabary — a syllabic script in use on Cyprus in the first millennium b.c., used for the writing of Greek and of an unknown language.
  • digital footprint — one's unique set of digital activities, actions, and communications that leave a data trace on the Internet or on a computer or other digital device and can identify the particular user or device: Our online browsing habits are part of our passive digital footprint, created without our consent or knowledge, but our active digital footprint, especially on social media, can more easily be managed. Compare footprint (def 4).
  • duality principle — the principle that a mathematical duality exists under certain conditions.
  • elliptical spring — An elliptical spring is a spring that is made from two springs in the shape of elongated ovals laid cut in half and back-to-back.
  • esprit d'escalier — clever repartee one thinks of too late
  • fair market price — the price of something at which both a seller and a buyer are willing to strike a deal.
  • forest enterprise — a British government department responsible for maintaining and expanding forests
  • garage proprietor — a person who owns a commercial establishment in which motor vehicles are repaired, serviced, bought, and sold
  • gause's principle — the principle that similar species cannot coexist for long in the same ecological niche
  • gnu privacy guard
  • golf ball printer — IBM 2741
  • huygens principle — the principle that all points on a wave front of light are sources of secondary waves and that surfaces tangential to these waves define the position of the wave front at any point in time.
  • inappropriateness — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • life imprisonment — long-term prison sentence
  • loco primo citato — loc. primo cit.
  • maximum principle — the theorem that a function of a complex variable that is analytic in a domain and on its boundary attains its maximum absolute value on the boundary.
  • misappropriations — Plural form of misappropriation.
  • multiplex printer — (hardware)   A duplex circuit using time-division multiplexing to provide multiple duplex channels over one wire. For example, channels A, B, C, and D could be used for simultaneous transmission in both directions.
  • nonimpact printer — a printer that creates images without mechanically impacting the page, as an ink-jet or laser printer.
  • pauline privilege — (in canon law) the privilege given to converts to dissolve a marriage with an unbaptized spouse if either obstructs the religious practices of the other.
  • petitio principii — a fallacy in reasoning resulting from the assumption of that which in the beginning was set forth to be proved; begging the question.
  • predatory pricing — If a company practises predatory pricing, it charges a much lower price for its products or services than its competitors in order to force them out of the market.
  • price maintenance — measures taken by manufacturers to maintain the price charged for their goods by resellers
  • prima inter pares — (of a female) first among equals.
  • primary dentition — the deciduous dentition
  • primary education — junior, elementary schooling
  • primary intention — Logic. See under intention (def 5a).
  • primary processes — the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious and occurring in dreams, fantasies, and related processes.
  • primary qualities — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
  • primary structure — Biochemistry. the basic sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide or protein.
  • primary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • prime ministerial — of or relating to the head of a parliamentary government
  • primitive baptist — (especially in the Southern U.S.) one belonging to a highly conservative, loosely organized Baptist group, characterized by extreme fundamentalism and by opposition to missionary work, Sunday Schools, and the use of musical instruments in church.
  • printing industry — the industry engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • prior probability — the probability assigned to a parameter or to an event in advance of any empirical evidence, often subjectively or on the assumption of the principle of indifference
  • priority check-in — Priority check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in without waiting in a line.
  • prismatic compass — a hand compass equipped with sights and prisms to permit aiming the instrument at a point and at the same time reading the compass direction of the point.
  • prison population — all the people who are confined in prison
  • private detective — a detective who is not a member of an official force but is employed by private parties.

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