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17-letter words containing rr

  • floating currency — a currency that is free to fluctuate against other currencies in accordance with market forces
  • flowering currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes sanguineum, growing to 2 to 3 metres (6 to 9ft) in height, with red, crimson, yellow, or white flowers: family Saxifragaceae
  • fluvioterrestrial — (of animals) able to live in rivers and on land
  • francisco pizarro — Francisco [fran-sis-koh;; Spanish frahn-thees-kaw,, -sees-] /frænˈsɪs koʊ;; Spanish frɑnˈθis kɔ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), c1470–1541, Spanish conqueror of Peru.
  • full load current — A full load current is the largest current that a motor or other device is designed to carry under particular conditions.
  • garden strawberry — a plant which has white flowers and red edible fruits and is spread by runners, Fragaria ananassa
  • greenland current — the ocean current flowing clockwise around S Greenland.
  • guerrilla theater — the presentation of short propaganda plays or skits, usually on sociopolitical themes, as war or repression, often on the streets or in other nontheater locations.
  • guerrilla warfare — the use of hit-and-run tactics by small, mobile groups of irregular forces operating in territory controlled by a hostile, regular force.
  • haemorrhoidectomy — surgical removal of haemorrhoids
  • hemorrhagic fever — any of several arbovirus infections, as dengue, characterized by fever, chills, and malaise followed by hemorrhages of capillaries, sometimes leading to kidney failure and death.
  • horror of horrors — Horror of horrors is used to refer to something that you consider to be the worst part of a situation.
  • hurricane warning — a storm warning given for winds with speeds exceeding 63 knots (72 mph, 32 m/sec) when the source of the winds is a tropical cyclone.
  • hyperirritability — extreme irritability.
  • indian strawberry — a plant, Duchesnea indica, of the rose family, native to India, having yellow flowers and inedible fruit resembling strawberries.
  • insurance carrier — company issuing an insurance policy
  • inter-correlation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
  • interrelationship — reciprocal relation.
  • interrupt handler — (software)   A routine which is executed when an interrupt occurs. Interrupt handlers typically deal with low-level events in the hardware of a computer system such as a character arriving at a serial port or a tick of a real-time clock. Special care is required when writing an interrupt handler to ensure that either the interrupt which triggered the handler's execution is masked out (inhibitted) until the handler exits, or the handler is re-entrant so that multiple concurrent invocations will not interfere with each other. If interrupts are masked then the handler must execute as quickly as possible so that important events are not missed. This is often arranged by splitting the processing associated with the event into "upper" and "lower" halves. The lower part is the interrupt handler which masks out further interrupts as required, checks that the appropriate event has occurred (this may be necessary if several events share the same interrupt), services the interrupt, e.g. by reading a character from a UART and writing it to a queue, and re-enabling interrupts. The upper half executes as part of a user process. It waits until the interrupt handler has run. Normally the operating system is responsible for reactivating a process which is waiting for some low-level event. It detects this by a shared flag or by inspecting a shared queue or by some other synchronisation mechanism. It is important that the upper and lower halves do not interfere if an interrupt occurs during the execution of upper half code. This is usually ensured by disabling interrupts during critical sections of code such as removing a character from a queue.
  • interrupt request — (IRQ) The name of an input found on many processors which causes the processor to suspend normal instruction execution temporarily and to start executing an interrupt handler routine. Such an input may be either "level sensitive" - the interrupt condition will persist as long as the input is active or "edge triggered" - an interrupt is signalled by a low-to-high or high-to-low transition on the input. Some processors have several interrupt request inputs allowing different priority interrupts.
  • interrupted screw — a screw having the thread interrupted in one or more places by longitudinal channels, as in the breech of a cannon or the lead screw of a lathe.
  • into one's barrow — suited to one's interests or desires
  • irrational number — a number that cannot be exactly expressed as a ratio of two integers.
  • irreconcilability — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
  • irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
  • irreproducibility — The quality of not being reproducible.
  • irrigation system — a system of supplying (land) with water by means of artificial canals, ditches, etc, esp to promote the growth of food crops
  • ivan the terrible — ("Ivan the Terrible") 1530–84, first czar of Russia 1547–84.
  • japanese barberry — a thorny barberry, Berberis thunbergii, of Japan, having yellow flowers and bearing bright-red fruit, grown as a hedge plant.
  • learned borrowing — a word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern language.
  • lewis with harris — the northernmost island of the Hebrides, in NW Scotland. 825 sq. mi. (2135 sq. km).
  • lincoln's sparrow — a North American sparrow, Melospiza lincolnii, having a buff breast with black streaks.
  • lowbush blueberry — a shrub, Vaccinium angustifolium, of eastern North America, having small, white flowers and blue-black fruit.
  • magellan barberry — an evergreen shrub, Berberis buxifolia, of southern Chile, having prickle-tipped leaves, dark-purple fruit, and orange-yellow flowers, rarely flowering in cultivation.
  • maraschino cherry — a cherry cooked in colored syrup and flavored with maraschino, used to garnish desserts, cocktails, etc.
  • marriage ceremony — official part of a wedding
  • marriage equality — the state of having the same rights and responsibilities of marriage as others, regardless of one's sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • marriage guidance — counselling for married couples
  • mediterranean sea — a sea surrounded by Africa, Europe, and Asia. 2400 miles (3865 km) long; 1,145,000 sq. mi. (2,965,550 sq. km); greatest known depth 14,436 feet (4400 meters).
  • mercy otis warren — Earl, 1891–1974, U.S. lawyer and political leader: chief justice of the U.S. 1953–69.
  • montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
  • narrow-shouldered — having shoulders which do not extend very far from the neck; not broad-shouldered
  • nathaniel currier — Nathaniel, 1813–88, U.S. lithographer. Compare Ives (def 4).
  • non-corresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
  • norwegian current — an ocean current formed from the terminus of the North Atlantic Current, flowing N along the Norwegian coast into the Barents Sea.
  • nuclear deterrent — a country's nuclear weapons viewed as a deterrent to other countries from attacking
  • on the barrelhead — upon being presented for sale; at the time of delivery
  • optical carrier 3 — (networking)   (OC-3) A SONET rate of 3 * 51.84 = 155.52 megabits per second, which matches STS-3.
  • optical carrier n — (networking)   (OC-n) A SONET rate of n times 51.84 megabits per second.
  • overreach oneself — to fail because of trying to do more than one can
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