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17-letter words that end in ent

  • hormone treatment — any of several medical treatments using hormones
  • hydrothermal vent — an opening on the floor of the sea from which hot, mineral-rich solutions issue. Compare vent1 (def 2).
  • hyper-intelligent — having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals: an intelligent student.
  • image enhancement — a method of improving the definition of a video picture by a computer program, which reduces the lowest grey values to black and the highest to white: used for pictures from microscopes, surveillance cameras, and scanners
  • immunofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or using immunofluorescence.
  • insertion element — a section of DNA that is capable of becoming inserted into another chromosome
  • insulin treatment — treatment of diabetes with insulin
  • insulin-dependent — of or relating to the type of diabetes that mainly affects young people
  • inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
  • inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.
  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • kendal sneck bent — a fishhook having a wide, squarish bend.
  • ladder tournament — a tournament in which the entrants are listed by name and rank, advancement being by means of challenging and defeating an entrant ranked one or two places higher.
  • life imprisonment — long-term prison sentence
  • linear assignment — assignment problem
  • load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
  • memory management — (memory management, storage)   A collection of techniques for providing sufficient memory to one or more processes in a computer system, especially when the system does not have enough memory to satisfy all processes' requirements simultaneously. Techniques include swapping, paging and virtual memory. Memory management is usually performed mostly by a hardware memory management unit.
  • mental impairment — (in England, according to the Mental Health Act 1983) a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind, which includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning and is associated with abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct
  • method of payment — cash, credit card, cheque, etc.
  • middle management — the middle echelon of administration in business and industry.
  • minister resident — a diplomatic agent serving in a minor country and ranking next below an ambassador.
  • mission statement — an official document that sets out the goals, purpose, and work of an organization.
  • moral re-armament — a worldwide movement initiated by Frank Buchman in 1938 as a successor to the Oxford Group, and maintaining that the practice of high morality in public and private life is the key to world betterment. Abbreviation: MRA.
  • national monument — a monument, as a historic site or geographical area, owned and maintained in the public interest by the federal government.
  • nessler's reagent — an aqueous solution of potassium iodide, mercuric chloride, and potassium hydroxide, used as a test for the presence of ammonia.
  • ninth commandment — “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”: ninth of the Ten Commandments.
  • non-reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • non-reinforcement — the act of reinforcing.
  • nonaccomplishment — Something that does not achieve the intended goal.
  • norwegian current — an ocean current formed from the terminus of the North Atlantic Current, flowing N along the Norwegian coast into the Barents Sea.
  • nuclear deterrent — a country's nuclear weapons viewed as a deterrent to other countries from attacking
  • object complement — a word or a group of words used in the predicate following a factitive verb and referring to its direct object, as treasurer in We appointed him treasurer, white in They painted the house white, or an interesting speaker in They thought him an interesting speaker.
  • organized ferment — ferment (def 1).
  • outline agreement — a contract, etc, setting out the preliminary terms or guidelines for an agreement; a preliminary agreement
  • parachute payment — a payment made to alleviate hardship resulting from a sudden loss of income
  • pasteur treatment — Pasteur's method of preventing certain diseases, esp. rabies, by increasing the strength of successive inoculations with a specific weakened or attenuated virus
  • police department — A police department is an official organization which is responsible for making sure that people obey the law.
  • pre-enlightenment — the act of enlightening.
  • pressure gradient — the change of pressure per unit distance
  • private placement — a sale of an issue of securities by the issuing company directly to a limited number of investors, often only one or two large institutional investors, such as a bank or an insurance company (opposed to public offering): required to be cleared but not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • product placement — Product placement is a form of advertising in which a company has its product placed where it can be clearly seen during a film or television programme.
  • profile component — attainment targets in different subjects brought together for the general assessment of a pupil
  • program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
  • promotional event — occasion organized to market or advertise sth
  • quasi-independent — not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.
  • racial harassment — persecution on the basis of race
  • radio-transparent — transparent to radiation; invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiopaque).
  • real-estate agent — a person who sells houses, buildings, and land
  • recoil escapement — anchor escapement.
  • rhode island bent — a European pasture grass, Agrostis tenuis, naturalized in North America, having red flower clusters.
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