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17-letter words that end in n

  • periodic function — a function of a real or complex variable that is periodic.
  • peripheral vision — all that is visible to the eye outside the central area of focus; side vision.
  • personal equation — the tendency to personal bias that accounts for variation in interpretation or approach and for which allowance must be made.
  • phantom limb pain — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of pain, discomfort, or other sensation in the area of a missing limb or other body part, as a breast.
  • phase of the moon — Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend. Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine. "This feature depends on having the channel open in mumble mode, having the foo switch set, and on the phase of the moon." See also heisenbug. True story: Once upon a time there was a bug that really did depend on the phase of the moon. There was a little subroutine that had traditionally been used in various programs at MIT to calculate an approximation to the moon's true phase. GLS incorporated this routine into a Lisp program that, when it wrote out a file, would print a timestamp line almost 80 characters long. Very occasionally the first line of the message would be too long and would overflow onto the next line, and when the file was later read back in the program would barf. The length of the first line depended on both the precise date and time and the length of the phase specification when the timestamp was printed, and so the bug literally depended on the phase of the moon! The first paper edition of the Jargon File (Steele-1983) included an example of one of the timestamp lines that exhibited this bug, but the typesetter "corrected" it. This has since been described as the phase-of-the-moon-bug bug.
  • photo-composition — any method of composition using photography, as composition by means of a photocomposer.
  • photo-respiration — the oxidation of carbohydrates in many higher plants in which they get oxygen from light and then release carbon dioxide, somewhat different from photosynthesis.
  • photodissociation — the dissociation or breakdown of a chemical compound by radiant energy.
  • photoreactivation — a process that repairs DNA damaged by ultraviolet light using an enzyme that requires visible light.
  • pitching rotation — the regular, scheduled succession of starting pitchers designated by a manager: a four-man pitching rotation in September.
  • plymouth brethren — a religious sect founded c. 1827, strongly Puritanical in outlook and prohibiting many secular occupations for its members. It combines elements of Calvinism, Pietism, and millenarianism, and has no organized ministry
  • police protection — protection from danger, crime etc given by the police force to a community, city etc
  • positive electron — positron.
  • post-resurrection — the act of rising from the dead.
  • pre-authorization — the act of authorizing.
  • pre-communication — the act or process of communicating; fact of being communicated.
  • pre-concentration — the act of concentrating; the state of being concentrated.
  • pre-configuration — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • pre-incorporation — the act of incorporating or the state of being incorporated.
  • pre-investigation — the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
  • pre-manifestation — an act of manifesting.
  • pre-qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • premonstratensian — a member of a religious order founded at Prémontré in N France in 1120 by St Norbert (about 1080–1134)
  • press association — an organization formed for the purpose of gathering news for transmittal to its members. Compare news agency.
  • pressure drawdown — Pressure drawdown is the difference between the reservoir pressure and the flowing wellbore pressure, which drives fluids from the reservoir into the wellbore.
  • pressurized cabin — the cabin of an aircraft in which the air has been pressurized
  • previous question — a move that a vote be taken at once on a main question, used especially as a means of cutting off further debate.
  • primary dentition — the deciduous dentition
  • primary education — junior, elementary schooling
  • primary intention — Logic. See under intention (def 5a).
  • primary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • priority check-in — Priority check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in without waiting in a line.
  • prison population — all the people who are confined in prison
  • private education — education provided by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • pronominalization — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
  • provincialization — to make provincial in character.
  • public television — a type of noncommercial, usually educational, television programming funded by the government, grants, viewers, and corporations. Compare educational television.
  • pull your head in — be quiet!
  • punitive taxation — a form of taxation that is very severe and that people find very difficult to pay
  • put a dampener on — To put a dampener on something means the same as to put a damper on it.
  • put the finger on — to inform on or identify, esp for the police
  • put the kibosh on — nonsense.
  • put the screws on — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • put up at auction — to offer for sale at an auction
  • quattuordecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 45 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 84 zeros.
  • radiation pattern — the graphic representation of the strength and direction of electromagnetic radiation in the vicinity of a transmitting aerial
  • rainbow coalition — a political grouping together by several minority parties
  • rational function — a function that can be written as the quotient of two polynomials with integral coefficients.
  • recording session — a period of time devoted to recording music in a studio
  • recovery position — a position in which an unconscious person can be lain on the floor, which minimises them from further risk
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