17-letter words containing te
- enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
- entertainment tax — a tax imposed in some countries on forms of entertainment, such as films, shows, etc
- epistemologically — In a manner that pertains to epistemology.
- equation of state — any equation that expresses the relationship between the temperature, pressure, and volume of a substance
- escaping tendency — a property of a gas, related to its partial pressure, that expresses its tendency to escape or expand, given by d(log ef) = dμ/ RT, where μ is the chemical potential, R the gas constant, and T the thermodynamic temperature
- export-orientated — (of an industry, company, etc) mainly concerned with the export of goods or services
- extension courses — courses offered to outsiders by an educational establishment
- external examiner — External experts, for example external examiners, come into an organization from outside in order to do a particular job fairly and impartially, or to check that a particular job was done properly.
- external relation — a relation that does not hold between its relata, as 4 is greater than 2
- extraterrestrials — Plural form of extraterrestrial.
- faint-heartedness — lack of courage
- fan-assisted oven — an electric oven in which a fan circulates the air and which uses both top and bottom heat
- father substitute — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
- felix frankfurter — Felix, 1882–1965, U.S. jurist, born in Austria: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–62.
- finite difference — difference (def 9c).
- first triumvirate — the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, formed in 60 bc
- fish out of water — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
- flagrante delicto — Law. in the very act of committing the offense.
- flickertail state — North Dakota (used as a nickname).
- flight lieutenant — A flight lieutenant is an officer of middle rank in the British air force.
- fluvioterrestrial — (of animals) able to live in rivers and on land
- forest enterprise — a British government department responsible for maintaining and expanding forests
- four-letter words — any of a number of short words, usually of four letters, considered offensive or vulgar because of their reference to excrement or sex.
- frankenstein food — any foodstuff that has been genetically modified
- fraternal society — a club or other association, usually of men, having a limited membership and devoted to professional, religious, charitable, or social activities.
- frostbite sailing — the sport of sailing in temperate latitudes during the winter despite cold weather.
- function complete — (programming) State of a software component or system such that each function described by the software's functional specification can be reached by at least one functional path, and attempts to operate as specified.
- gamma-ray burster — a source of gamma-ray bursts
- garden mignonette — a Mediterranean plant, Resida odorata, which has spikes of small greenish-white flowers with prominent anthers
- gastroenterostomy — the making of a new passage between the stomach and the duodenum (gastroduodenostomy) or, especially, the jejunum (gastrojejunostomy)
- george whitefield — George, 1714–70, English Methodist evangelist.
- get the better of — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- glass box testing — white box testing
- globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
- glymphatic system — Anatomy. the system or process by which cerebrospinal fluid moves through channels formed by glia, cleansing the mammalian brain of harmful waste.
- gnash one's teeth — If you say that someone is gnashing their teeth, you mean they are angry or frustrated about something.
- go-faster stripes — (jargon) chrome. Mainstream in some parts of UK.
- goldbeater's skin — the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
- golf ball printer — IBM 2741
- graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
- grand climacteric — Physiology. a period of decrease of reproductive capacity in men and women, culminating, in women, in the menopause.
- great white heron — a large white heron, Ardea occidentalis, of Florida and the Florida Keys.
- great white shark — a large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of tropical and temperate seas, known to occasionally attack swimmers.
- greater celandine — celandine (def 1).
- greater forkbeard — a fish of the Phycidae family
- greater spearwort — a Eurasian ranunculaceous plant, Ranunculus lingua, which grows in wet places and has long narrow leaves and yellow flowers
- green-winged teal — a small freshwater duck, Anas crecca, of Eurasia and North America, having an iridescent green speculum in the wing.
- guardian ad litem — a person appointed by a court as guardian of an infant or other person to act on his or her behalf in a particular action or proceeding.
- 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.
- haemoglobinometer — an instrument used to determine the haemoglobin content of blood