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17-letter words containing str

  • four-stroke cycle — A four-stroke cycle is the cycle of engine operation which requires four strokes of the piston: for induction, compression, ignition, and exhaust.
  • garboard (strake) — the strake adjoining the keel
  • garden strawberry — a plant which has white flowers and red edible fruits and is spread by runners, Fragaria ananassa
  • gastroenterostomy — the making of a new passage between the stomach and the duodenum (gastroduodenostomy) or, especially, the jejunum (gastrojejunostomy)
  • gastrojejunostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
  • go-faster stripes — (jargon)   chrome. Mainstream in some parts of UK.
  • heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
  • indestructibility — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indian strawberry — a plant, Duchesnea indica, of the rose family, native to India, having yellow flowers and inedible fruit resembling strawberries.
  • industrial action — job action.
  • industrial design — the art that deals with the design problems of manufactured objects, including problems of designing such objects with consideration for available materials and means of production, of designing packages, bottles, etc., for manufactured goods, and of graphic design for manufactured objects, packages, etc.
  • industrial estate — industrial park.
  • industrial injury — an injury sustained by an employee of an industrial company during the course of their work
  • industrial school — a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; trade or vocational school.
  • industrial unrest — business: among employees
  • industrialisation — Alternative spelling of industrialization.
  • industrialization — the large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc.
  • industry standard — an established standard, norm, or requirement in a particular area of business
  • instrument flying — the control and navigation of an aircraft by reference to its gauges, with no or only limited visual reference outside the cockpit.
  • instrumentalities — Plural form of instrumentality.
  • interfenestration — a space between two windows.
  • internet registry — (IR) The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has the discretionary authority to delegate portions of its responsibility and, with respect to network address and Autonomous System identifiers, has lodged this responsibility with the IR. The IR function is performed by the Defense Data Network Network Information Center.
  • la perouse strait — a strait between S Sakhalin Island, Russia and N Hokkaido Island, Japan connecting the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan. 25 miles (40 km) wide.
  • lan administrator — (job)   A person who installs and maintains LAN hardware and software. A LAN administrator troubleshoots network usage and computer peripherals. He installs new users, performs system backups and data recovery, and resolves LAN communications problems.
  • latent strabismus — the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.
  • lithostratigraphy — the study or character of stratified rocks based solely on their physical and petrographic features.
  • macroinstructions — Plural form of macroinstruction.
  • maladministration — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.
  • man in the street — the ordinary person; the average citizen: the political opinions of the man in the street.
  • man on the street — man in the street.
  • microinstructions — Plural form of microinstruction.
  • mill construction — heavy, fire-resistant timber construction within masonry walls, all vertical communication being within masonry towers provided with fire doors.
  • misadministration — the management of any office, business, or organization; direction.
  • mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
  • non-demonstrative — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
  • non-instructional — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
  • nuclear chemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with nuclear reactions
  • on-street parking — parking (of a car, vehicle, etc) that is or is allowed to be done on a street
  • optical astronomy — the branch of observational astronomy using telescopes to observe or photograph celestial objects in visible light.
  • organic chemistry — the branch of chemistry, originally limited to substances found only in living organisms, dealing with the compounds of carbon.
  • paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
  • passive restraint — a safety device, as an air bag or special seat belt, that is activated automatically to protect an automobile passenger at the moment of impact when a collision occurs.
  • plastics industry — the industry that makes plastics
  • 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.
  • preemptive strike — preventive war.
  • premonstratensian — a member of a religious order founded at Prémontré in N France in 1120 by St Norbert (about 1080–1134)
  • primary structure — Biochemistry. the basic sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide or protein.
  • 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.
  • property mistress — a female member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
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