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17-letter words that end in ry

  • interdisciplinary — combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study: The economics and history departments are offering an interdisciplinary seminar on Asia.
  • 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.
  • inverted snobbery — the attitude of an inverted snob
  • japanese barberry — a thorny barberry, Berberis thunbergii, of Japan, having yellow flowers and bearing bright-red fruit, grown as a hedge plant.
  • john of salisbury — c1115–80, English prelate and scholar.
  • ladies' auxiliary — an organization usually made up of the wives of members of another organization
  • lead acid battery — A lead acid battery is a 12-volt battery for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles consisting of lead-acid cells in series.
  • lowbush blueberry — a shrub, Vaccinium angustifolium, of eastern North America, having small, white flowers and blue-black fruit.
  • macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
  • magellan barberry — an evergreen shrub, Berberis buxifolia, of southern Chile, having prickle-tipped leaves, dark-purple fruit, and orange-yellow flowers, rarely flowering in cultivation.
  • maraschino cherry — a cherry cooked in colored syrup and flavored with maraschino, used to garnish desserts, cocktails, etc.
  • membrane recovery — Membrane recovery is a process which uses membranes to obtain hydrogen from refinery fuel gas, hydrocrackers, and chemical processes such as methanol production.
  • microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
  • mullerian mimicry — the resemblance in appearance of two or more unpalatable species, which are avoided by predators to a greater degree than any one of the species would be otherwise.
  • multidisciplinary — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
  • munitions factory — a factory where munitions are made
  • national cemetery — a cemetery, maintained by the U.S. government, for persons who have served honorably in the armed forces.
  • naval observatory — an astronomical observatory located in Washington, D.C., operated by the U.S. government, and responsible for the U.S. time service.
  • non-discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • nondiscriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • nuclear chemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with nuclear reactions
  • nursing auxiliary — someone who performs duties such as washing and dressing patients, making beds, etc, in an establishment such as a hospital
  • on-the-job injury — On-the-job injury is bodily harm that is caused while you are doing your job.
  • online dictionary — a dictionary that is available on the Internet or World Wide Web and accessed through a Web browser using a computer or a mobile device, primarily by typing a query term into a search box on the site. Online dictionaries like Dictionary.com offer immediate, direct access through large databases to a word's spelling and meanings, plus a host of ancillary information, including its variant spellings, pronunciation, inflected forms, origin, and derived forms, as well as supplementary notes on matters of interest or concern about how the word is used: Some people think online dictionaries will make print dictionaries obsolete.
  • organic chemistry — the branch of chemistry, originally limited to substances found only in living organisms, dealing with the compounds of carbon.
  • other fish to fry — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
  • persistent memory — non-volatile storage
  • plastics industry — the industry that makes plastics
  • pocket dictionary — a small portable dictionary
  • postal stationery — an envelope, postal card, wrapper, or aérogramme, with the stamp printed directly on the paper.
  • pre-revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • printing industry — the industry engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • private secretary — a person who attends to the individual or confidential correspondence, files, etc., of a business executive, official, or the like.
  • purple chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
  • quantum chemistry — the application of quantum mechanics to the study of chemical phenomena.
  • read-write memory — a type of computer memory that you can write to as well as read from
  • recorded delivery — If you send a letter or parcel recorded delivery, you send it using a Post Office service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been posted and delivered.
  • reference library — A reference library is a library that contains books which you can look at in the library itself but which you cannot borrow.
  • resource recovery — Resource recovery is when energy, a material, or a product is taken from waste and used.
  • rich site summary — (web, standard)   (RSS, blog, feed) A family of standard web document types containing regularly updated, short articles or news items. RSS documents (generally called "RSS feeds", "news feeds" or just "feeds") can be read with an RSS reader like BottomFeeder or Feedly. These are sometimes called "aggregators" because they combine multiple RSS feeds which the user can browse as a single list. The RSS reader tracks which articles the use has read, and is typically set to show only new articles, hence the idea of a "feed" or flow of new items. Most RSS feeds are based on RDF. RDF is a structured document format for describing textual resources such as news articles available on the web. RSS originally stood for "RDF Site Summary" as it was designed to provide short descriptions of (changes to) a website. Because it provides a standard way to deliver, or "syndicate", news or updates from one site to another, RSS is sometimes expanded as "Really Simple Syndication". It is closely associated with blogs, most of which provide an RSS feed of articles.
  • rough puff pastry — a rich flaky pastry made with butter and used for pie-crusts, flans, etc
  • scheme repository — A collection of free Scheme programs.
  • scientific theory — a coherent group of propositions formulated to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world and repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation: the scientific theory of evolution.
  • seaweed marquetry — marquetry having the form of symmetrical, foliate scrolls, as on English cabinetwork of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • secondary battery — storage battery.
  • serendipity berry — miracle fruit (def 2).
  • shipping industry — the industry concerned with transporting freight, esp by ship
  • short short story — a very short piece of prose fiction, much more condensed than the average short story.
  • short-term memory — information retained in the brain and retrievable from it over a brief span of time (contrasted with long-term memory).
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