17-letter words containing re
- (the) chances are — the likelihood is
- a different story — You use a different story to refer to a situation, usually a bad one, which exists in one set of circumstances when you have mentioned that it does not exist in another set of circumstances.
- a grip on reality — If you say that someone has a grip on reality, you mean they recognize the true situation and do not have mistaken ideas about it.
- a hundred and one — You can use expressions such as a hundred and one, a thousand and one, and a million and one to emphasize that you are talking about a large number of things or people.
- acceptance region — Statistics. the set of values of a test statistic for which the null hypothesis is accepted.
- acidity regulator — a substance, such as citric acid, added to food to change or maintain its pH value
- acme screw thread — a type of screw thread having inclined flat flanks and a flat top and bottom: used in machine tools
- acquired immunity — the immunity produced by exposure of an organism to antigens, which stimulates the production of antibodies
- acrosome reaction — the release of enzymes from the acrosome when a spermatozoon encounters the ovum, allowing fusion with the ovum in the sexual reproductive process
- activation record — (compiler) (Or "data frame", "stack frame") A data structure containing the variables belonging to one particular scope (e.g. a procedure body), as well as links to other activation records. Activation records are usually created (on the stack) on entry to a block and destroyed on exit. If a procedure or function may be returned as a result, stored in a variable and used in an outer scope then its activation record must be stored in a heap so that its variables still exist when it is used. Variables in the current scope are accessed via the frame pointer which points to the current activation record. Variables in an outer scope are accessed by following chains of links between activation records. There are two kinds of link - the static link and the dynamic link.
- active ingredient — the part of a substance or compound that produces its chemical or biological effect
- acupressure point — any of the specific points on the body where pressure is applied in acupressure
- addition reaction — a reaction in which part of a compound is added to one end of a double or triple bond, while the rest adds to the other end, converting it, respectively, to a single or double bond.
- advance directive — a living will or durable power of attorney in which a person states his or her wishes regarding medical treatment in the event of mental incompetency or an inability to communicate.
- adventure holiday — a holiday that involves some physically challenging activity such as canoeing, rock climbing, etc
- adventure tourism — tourism involving activities that are physically challenging
- adventuresomeness — The state or quality of being adventuresome.
- affaire d'honneur — a duel
- age before beauty — (often said humorously when yielding precedence) older people take precedence over younger people
- age of discretion — the age at which a person is considered to be able to manage his or her own affairs
- agree to disagree — If two people who are arguing about something agree to disagree or agree to differ, they decide to stop arguing because neither of them is going to change their opinion.
- agreement to sell — a contract between two parties in which one party agrees to sell something to the other
- alcala de henares — city in central Spain, near Madrid: pop. 159,000
- almost everywhere — everywhere in a given set except on a subset with measure zero. Abbreviation: a.e.
- ambrette-seed oil — a yellow oil expressed from ambrette seeds, used as a fixative in the manufacture of perfume.
- american redstart — any of several small, Old World thrushes, usually with reddish-brown tails, especially Phoenicurus phoenicurus (European redstart)
- american wirehair — a breed of medium-large cat with a coarse wiry coat
- andreanof islands — a group of islands in the central Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Area: 3710 sq km (1432 sq miles)
- andrew fluegelman — (person) A successful attorney, editor of PC World Magazine, and author of the MS-DOS communications program PC-TALK III, written in 1982. He once owned the trademark "freeware" but it wasn't enforced after his disappearance. In 1985, Fluegelman was diagnosed with cancer. He was last seen a week later, on 1985-07-06, when he left his Marin County home to go to his office in Tiburon. He called his wife later that day and has not been heard from since. His car was found at Vista Point on the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge.
- angular frequency — the frequency of a periodic process, wave system, etc, expressed in radians per second
- anti-bureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
- anti-interference — intended to reduce electronic interference during radio transmissions
- antirevolutionary — opposed to revolution, esp opposed to a particular revolution and the people who are carrying it out
- 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.
- apparent movement — the sensation of seeing movement when nothing actually moves in the environment, as when two neighbouring lights are switched on and off in rapid succession
- archimedes' screw — an ancient type of water-lifting device making use of a spiral passage in an inclined cylinder. The water is raised when the spiral is rotated
- armature reaction — a change in the magnetic field of a dynamo caused by the magnetic field induced by the current flowing through the armature.
- arresting officer — the police officer making an arrest
- artistic director — a person in charge of the artistic direction of a theatre company
- assessment centre — a set of selection procedures designed to recruit the best candidate or candidates to fill a job vacancy; it usually takes place over a day or two and is run by specialist staff
- assistant referee — An assistant referee is the same as a linesman.
- at the request of — in accordance with the specific demand or wish of (someone)
- attendance centre — (in Britain) a place at which young offenders are required to attend regularly instead of going to prison
- attendance record — the record of how often a person has attended an institution such as a school
- attraction sphere — centrosphere (sense 1)
- audience research — research into the make-up and habits of the audience of a particular television or radio programme or network
- augmented reality — an artificial environment created through the combination of real-world and computer-generated data
- aurea mediocritas — the golden mean.
- australia current — a branch of the South Equatorial Current flowing SW from around Fiji to the E coast of Australia and then S along the coast.
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