17-letter words containing st

paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
persistent memory — non-volatile storage
personal distance — personal space.
pillar-and-breast — room-and-pillar.
pitot-static tube — a device combining a Pitot tube with a static tube: used to measure airspeed.
planck's constant — the fundamental constant of quantum mechanics, expressing the ratio of the energy of one quantum of radiation to the frequency of the radiation and approximately equal to 6.624 × 10− 27 erg-seconds. Symbol: h.
plastic explosive — a puttylike substance that contains an explosive charge, and is detonated by fuse or by remote control: used especially by terrorists and in guerrilla warfare.
plastics industry — the industry that makes plastics
polystyrene chips — small pieces of polystyrene used for insulating or packing
porterhouse steak — large cut of beef loin
post-and-rail tea — (in the 19th century) a coarse tea in which floating particles resembled a post-and-rail fence
post-depositional — removal from an office or position.
post-independence — Also, independency. the state or quality of being independent.
post-resurrection — the act of rising from the dead.
postage due stamp — a stamp that is affixed to mail at a post office when prepayment of postage is insufficient, to indicate the amount that must be collected from the addressee.
postal stationery — an envelope, postal card, wrapper, or aérogramme, with the stamp printed directly on the paper.
postbaccalaureate — bachelor's degree.
postimpressionism — a varied development of Impressionism by a group of painters chiefly between 1880 and 1900 stressing formal structure, as with Cézanne and Seurat, or the expressive possibilities of form and color, as with Van Gogh and Gauguin.
postmillennialism — the doctrine or belief that the second coming of Christ will follow the millennium.
poststructuralism — a variation of structuralism, often seen as a critique, emphasizing plurality of meaning and instability of concepts that structuralism uses to define society, language, etc.
posttranslational — Genetics, Biochemistry. occurring after the synthesis of a polypeptide chain.
postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
pre-investigation — the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
pre-manifestation — an act of manifesting.
precision casting — investment casting.
preemptive strike — preventive war.
prefect apostolic — the administrator, usually below the rank of bishop, in charge of a prefecture apostolic.
premonstratensian — a member of a religious order founded at Prémontré in N France in 1120 by St Norbert (about 1080–1134)
previous question — a move that a vote be taken at once on a main question, used especially as a means of cutting off further debate.
primary structure — Biochemistry. the basic sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide or protein.
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
production string — A production string is the series of pipes through which the oil or gas is brought up from the reservoir.
production system — (programming) A production system consists of a collection of productions (rules), a working memory of facts and an algorithm, known as forward chaining, for producing new facts from old. A rule becomes eligible to "fire" when its conditions match some set of elements currently in working memory. A conflict resolution strategy determines which of several eligible rules (the conflict set) fires next. A condition is a list of symbols which represent constants, which must be matched exactly; variables which bind to the thing they match and "<> symbol" which matches a field not equal to symbol. Example production systems are OPS5, CLIPS, flex.
program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
property mistress — a female member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
prostatic utricle — a small pouch near the prostate gland that opens into the urethra.
protective system — protectionism (def 1).
pseudo-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
pseudo-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
pseudo-moralistic — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
psychodiagnostics — the study and evaluation of character or personality in terms of behavioral and anatomical traits, as gesture, posture and physiognomy.
psycholinguistics — the study of the relationship between language and the cognitive or behavioral characteristics of those who use it.
psychometric test — a test designed to test a person's mental state, personality and thought processes
public assistance — government aid to the poor, disabled, or aged or to dependent children, as financial assistance or food stamps.
put a stop to sth — If you put a stop to something that you do not like or approve of, you prevent it from happening or continuing.
put on a pedestal — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
quantum chemistry — the application of quantum mechanics to the study of chemical phenomena.
radioactive waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.

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