17-letter words containing tr
- fairness doctrine — a policy mandated by the Federal Communications Commission, requiring radio and television stations to grant equal time to a political candidate, group, etc., to present an opposing viewpoint to one already aired.
- fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
- fendalton tractor — a four-wheel drive recreational vehicle
- ferroelectric ram — Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
- fingertip control — control exercised through your fingertips, e.g. by touching a touchscreen
- first triumvirate — the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, formed in 60 bc
- flight instrument — any instrument used to indicate the altitude, attitude, airspeed, drift, or direction of an aircraft.
- fluorescent strip — a fluorescent light in the form of a long strip
- fluvioterrestrial — (of animals) able to live in rivers and on land
- forward contracts — Forward contracts are agreements to buy something in the future for a price that has been agreed today.
- 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.
- fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
- garboard (strake) — the strake adjoining the keel
- garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
- 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.
- genealogical tree — family tree.
- gigaelectron volt — one billion electron-volts. Abbreviation: GeV, Gev.
- go the extra mile — make an exceptional effort
- go to the country — If a head of government or a government goes to the country, they hold a general election.
- go-faster stripes — (jargon) chrome. Mainstream in some parts of UK.
- grande chartreuse — the Carthusian monastery at Grenoble, France: the chief monastery of the Carthusians until 1903.
- grey-faced petrel — a dark-coloured New Zealand petrel, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi
- hemoconcentration — an increase in the concentration of cellular elements in the blood, resulting from loss of plasma.
- heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
- ho chi minh trail — a network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.
- hormone treatment — any of several medical treatments using hormones
- human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
- hydroelectrically — Using hydroelectric power.
- hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
- icositetrahedrons — Plural form of icositetrahedron.
- indestructibility — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indian rope-trick — the supposed Indian feat of climbing an unsupported rope
- 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
- infantry division — a military division composed of infantry
- 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.
- insulin treatment — treatment of diabetes with insulin
- 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.