17-letter words that end in ne
- holistic medicine — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
- hospital gangrene — Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.
- hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
- hyperbolic cosine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; cosh
- in line/into line — If you keep someone in line or bring them into line, you make them obey you, or you make them behave in the way you want them to.
- in the front line — Someone who is in the front line has to play a very important part in defending or achieving something.
- internal medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, especially of internal organ systems.
- internet backbone — (communications, networking) High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. The backbones carry Internet traffic around the world and meet at Network Access Points (NAPs). The topology of the "backbone" and its interconnections may once have resembled a spine with ribs connected along its length but is now almost certainly more like a fishing net wrapped around the world with many circular paths.
- listings magazine — a magazine with lists of TV and radio schedules
- locomotive engine — a self-propelled engine driven by steam, electricity, or diesel power and used for drawing trains along railway tracks
- low-velocity zone — a layer or zone in the earth in which the velocity of seismic waves is slightly lower than in the layers above and below. The asthenosphere is thought to be such a zone
- mercantile marine — the merchant navy
- methylnaphthalene — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 0 , whose alpha isomer, a colorless liquid, is used in determining cetane numbers.
- methyltheobromine — caffeine.
- midsagittal plane — a plane passing through the nasion when the skull is oriented in the Frankfurt horizontal.
- motorcycle engine — the engine of a motorcycle
- motoring magazine — a magazine about cars
- neuilly-sur-seine — a suburb of Paris, in N France: treaty of peace (1919) between the Allies and Bulgaria. 66,095.
- north frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.
- not to be outdone — You use not to be outdone to introduce an action which someone takes in response to a previous action.
- nuclear submarine — undersea vessel powered by atomic energy
- nuclear-free zone — any area in which nuclear weapons, power plants, or materials are not allowed.
- numbering machine — a handheld device for stamping numbers onto objects
- oil of turpentine — a colorless, flammable, volatile essential oil having a penetrating odor and a pungent, bitter taste, obtained from turpentine oleoresin by distillation: used in paints and varnishes, and in medicine as a carminative, vermifuge, expectorant, rubefacient, and, formerly, as a diuretic.
- old red sandstone — a thick sequence of sedimentary rock (generally, but not always, red) deposited in Britain and NW Europe during the Devonian period
- oversquare engine — An oversquare engine is an engine which has a cylinder bore that is larger than its stroke.
- panama canal zone — Canal Zone.
- perchloroethylene — tetrachloroethylene.
- physical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury by means of physical agents, as manipulation, massage, exercise, heat, or water.
- receding hairline — hair that is thinning at the front
- ribbon microphone — a microphone that utilizes a metal ribbon suspended in a magnetic field.
- side-valve engine — a type of internal-combustion engine in which the inlet and exhaust valves are in the cylinder block at the side of the pistons
- south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
- stationary engine — an engine mounted in a fixed position, as one used for driving generators, compressors, etc.
- stretch limousine — a limousine that has been lengthened to provide extra seating accommodation and more legroom
- synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
- tell your fortune — When someone tells your fortune, they tell you what they think will happen to you in the future, which they say is shown, for example, by the lines on your hand.
- tetrafluoroethene — a dense colourless gas that is polymerized to make polytetrafluorethene (PTFE). Formula: F2C:CF2
- threshing machine — a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.
- throat microphone — a microphone worn around the throat and actuated by vibrations of the larynx, used when background noise would obscure the sound of speech, as in an airplane cockpit.
- transmission line — a system of conductors, as coaxial cable, a wave guide, or a pair of parallel wires, used to transmit signals.
- transverse engine — an engine which is fitted side-to-side across the axis of a vehicle
- trichloroethylene — a colorless, poisonous liquid, C 2 HCl 3 , used chiefly as a degreasing agent for metals and as a solvent, especially in dry cleaning, for fats, oils, and waxes. Abbreviation: TCE.
- tropical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of diseases occurring in the tropics.
- tympanic membrane — eardrum.
- unemployment line — When people talk about the unemployment line, they are talking about the state of being unemployed, especially when saying how many people are unemployed.
- walk a chalk line — to behave with strict propriety or obedience
- wimshurst machine — a device for the production of electric charge by electrostatic induction, consisting of two oppositely rotating glass or mica disks carrying metal strips upon which charges are induced and subsequently removed by contact with metallic combs.