17-letter words that end in ry
- shortcrust pastry — a basic type of pastry that is made with half the quantity of fat to flour, and has a crisp but crumbly texture
- spectrophotometry — an instrument for making photometric comparisons between parts of spectra.
- squaw huckleberry — deerberry.
- steering geometry — Steering geometry is the geometric arrangement of the parts of a steering system, and the value of the lengths and angles within it.
- subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
- sword and sorcery — a genre of literature and film, usually set in days of old with magic as well as sword fighting
- the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
- undulatory theory — wave theory (def 1).
- variable-geometry — denoting an aircraft in which the wings are hinged to give the variable aspect ratio colloquially known as a swing-wing
- very large memory — (architecture) (VLM) A processor and operating system that can use more than 4GB of RAM, which is the limit for systems using 32-bit addresses. VLM architectures allow application programs and Very Large Databases with more than 4GB of data to be placed entirely in physical memory, with large performance enhancements. Some recent processors like the DEC Alpha can process 64 bits of data at a time and use addresses wider than 32 bits. (Solaris http://sun.com/solaris/64bit.html). (SGI http://sgi.com/Technology/standard/faq.html). (Unix 98 http://UNIX-systems.org/version2/whatsnew/login_64bit.html).
- visitors' gallery — a balcony in a building such as a parliament or court where members of the public can sit