17-letter words containing ster
- anabolic steroids — a synthetic derivative of testosterone, sometimes used by athletes to help increase weight and strength.
- barchester towers — a novel (1857) by Anthony Trollope.
- blood cholesterol — a measurement of the amount of cholesterol in someone's blood
- cistern barometer — a mercury barometer in which the lower mercury surface has a greater area than the upper.
- combine harvester — A combine harvester is a large machine which is used on farms to cut, sort, and clean grain.
- consonant cluster — a group of consonants without an intervening vowel
- disaster planning — disaster recovery
- disaster recovery — (business) (DR) Planning and implementation of procedures and facilities for use when essential systems are not available for a period long enough to have a significant impact on the business, e.g. when the head office is blown up. Disasters include natural: fire, flood, lightning, hurricane; hardware: power failure, component failure, head crash; software failure: bugs, resources; vandalism: arson, bombing, cracking, theft; data corruption or loss: human error, media failure; communications: computer network equipment, network storm, telephones; security: passwords compromised, computer virus; legal: change in legislation; personnel: unavailability of essential staff, industrial action. Companies need to plan for disaster: before: risk analysis, preventive measures, training; during: how should staff and systems respond; after: recovery measures, post mortem analysis. Hardware can usually be replaced and is usually insured. Software and data needs to be backed up off site. Alternative communication systems should be arranged in case of network failure or inaccessible premises, e.g. emergency telephone number, home working, alternative data center.
- double gloucester — a type of smooth orange-red cheese of mild flavour
- eastern orthodoxy — the faith, practice, membership, and government of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- eastern red cedar — red cedar (def 1).
- eastern townships — an area of central Canada, in S Quebec: consists of 11 townships south of the St Lawrence
- eastern tradition — any of the philosophies and teachings that derive from Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and other spiritual traditions of the East
- eastern transvaal — Mpumalanga
- eastern turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- eastern-red-cedar — Also called eastern red cedar, savin. an American, coniferous tree, Juniperus virginiana, yielding a fragrant, reddish wood used for making lead pencils, etc.
- gamma-ray burster — a source of gamma-ray bursts
- globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
- go-faster stripes — (jargon) chrome. Mainstream in some parts of UK.
- handicap register — a list of the disabled people in its area that a local authority had a duty to compile under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
- hardware register — (hardware, system administration) (Or "hardware log") A list of all hardware, both internal and external, that is attached to a particular computer.
- hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- hysteron proteron — a figure of speech in which the logical order of two elements in discourse is reversed, as in “bred and born” for “born and bred.”.
- interior minister — the minister who is responsible for domestic affairs
- japanese wisteria — a wisteria, Wisteria floribunda, of Japan, having violet, violet-blue, pink, red, or white flowers, grown in the U.S. as an ornamental.
- john of lancaster — Duke of Bedford, 1389–1435, Bedford, John of Lancaster, Duke of.
- lobster thermidor — a dish of cooked lobster meat placed back in the shell with a cream sauce, sprinkled with grated cheese and melted butter, and browned in the oven.
- loch ness monster — a large aquatic animal resembling a serpent or a plesiosaurlike reptile, reported to have been seen in the waters of Loch Ness, Scotland, but not proved to exist.
- manchester school — a school of economists in England in the first half of the 19th century, devoted to free trade and the repeal of the Corn Law, led by Richard Cobden and John Bright.
- master of science — a master's degree given usually in a specific branch of the natural sciences, mathematics, or technology.
- minister of state — (in the British Parliament) a minister, usually below cabinet rank, appointed to assist a senior minister with heavy responsibilities
- minister resident — a diplomatic agent serving in a minor country and ranking next below an ambassador.
- ministering angel — a spirit who is believed to look after the needs of a particular person or group
- muenster (cheese) — a mild light-yellow semisoft cheese
- new england aster — a tall composite plant, Aster novae-angliae, of the northeastern U.S., the flowers of which have lavender to deep-purple rays.
- non-stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- oystershell scale — a scale insect, Lepidosaphes ulmi, having a scale shaped like the shell of an oyster, which infests various deciduous trees and shrubs.
- paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
- prime ministerial — of or relating to the head of a parliamentary government
- register of wills — (in some states of the U.S.) the official charged with the probate of wills or with the keeping of the records of the probate court.
- register spilling — (programming, compiler) (By analogy with spilling the contents of an overfull container) When a compiler is performing the register allocation phase of generating machine code and there are more live variables than the machine has registers and it has to transfer or "spill" some variables from registers to memory.
- registered office — official business address
- registered stocks — stocks officially registered to the name of the owner
- self-administered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
- sister of charity — a member of one of several congregations of sisters founded in 1634 by St. Vincent de Paul.
- sister of loretto — a member of a congregation of sisters founded at Loretto, Kentucky, in 1812 and engaged in educational and missionary works.
- spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
- stereolithography — a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.
- stereophotography — photography producing stereoscopic images.
- stereospecificity — (of a reaction) producing a simple stereoisomer.
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