17-letter words containing a, p, r, x
- a poor excuse for — a very inferior example of
- animal experiment — an experiment involving non-human animals
- apartment complex — An apartment complex is a group of buildings that contain apartments and are managed by the same company.
- boileau-despreaux — Nicolas [nee-kaw-lah] /ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1636–1711, French critic and poet.
- castor and pollux — the twin sons of Leda: Pollux was fathered by Zeus, Castor by the mortal Tyndareus. After Castor's death, Pollux spent half his days with his half-brother in Hades and half with the gods in Olympus
- causality paradox — the hypothetical cause-and-effect of time travel and making changes in the past that would affect current actions.
- dark-complexioned — (of a person) having a dark complexion
- dextroamphetamine — a dextrorotatory amphetamine, used to suppress appetite
- examination paper — a paper with examination questions printed on it set to test the knowledge of examination candidates
- exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
- exemplary damages — law: fine imposed as a deterrent
- experience rating — Experience rating is a method of adjusting the premium for a risk based on past loss experience for that risk compared to loss experience for an average risk.
- experimental lisp — (language) (xlisp) An experimental programming language combining a subset of Common Lisp with an object-oriented extension capability (Class and Object types). It was implemented by David Micheal Betz at Apple to allow experimentation with object-oriented programming on small computers. The C source code has been ported to Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari, and MS-DOS. Version 2.1 of the interpreter, by Tom Almy is closer to Common Lisp. E-mail: Tom Almy <[email protected]>.
- export department — the department of a business concerned with the export of the business's goods or services
- export-orientated — (of an industry, company, etc) mainly concerned with the export of goods or services
- extrasolar planet — any other celestial body revolving around a star, illuminated by light from that star
- health care proxy — a legal document in which a person can appoint someone to make decisions about medical treatment in the event that he or she is no longer mentally competent or able to communicate.
- hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
- hyperexcitability — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
- kastor and pollux — Castor and Pollux.
- lambda expression — (mathematics) A term in the lambda-calculus denoting an unnamed function (a "lambda abstraction"), a variable or a constant. The pure lambda-calculus has only functions and no constants.
- lexicographically — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- maximum principle — the theorem that a function of a complex variable that is analytic in a domain and on its boundary attains its maximum absolute value on the boundary.
- paradoxical sleep — REM sleep.
- physical exercise — movements and activities done to keep your body healthy or make it stronger
- pituitary extract — a preparation of the pituitary gland, used in medicine for the therapeutic effects of its hormones
- psychoprophylaxis — Lamaze method.
- quasiexperimental — (medicine) Describing a trial in which the assignment to a group is based upon an experimental condition.
- russell's paradox — a paradox of set theory in which an object is defined in terms of a class of objects that contains the object being defined, resulting in a logical contradiction.
- semi-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
- sexual preference — Someone's sexual preference is the same as their sexual orientation.
- six-speed gearbox — a gearbox containing a system of six gears
- sparc xterminal 1 — (computer) Sun's lowest cost networked Unix desktop, it is board-upgradeable to a SPARC 4. It comes with a choice of frame buffers: 8-bit colour, Turbo GX, or Turbo GX plus. This product was expected to replace the SPARCclassic X. UK availability was planned for March 1995.
- tax-bracket creep — bracket creep.
- therapeutic index — the ratio between the dosage of a drug that causes a lethal effect and the dosage that causes a therapeutic effect.
- thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
- urban exploration — a recreational activity in which people explore derelict urban structures such as abandoned sewers or underground railways or attempt to access areas which are closed to the public such as the roofs of skyscrapers
- varix lymphaticus — a similar condition affecting an artery or lymphatic vessel
- warm-up exercises — preparatory exercises done to warm up the muscles
- xerox corporation — (company) A US company, founded in 1906, specialising in document related technology and services including photocopiers, printers and office software. Xerox's acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services added business process and document management to their product range. In 2013 they have 140,000 employees. Their research centre, XEROX PARC, prototyped several revolutionary advances in computing, which the company failed to exploit, including the WIMP desktop metaphor and XEROX Network Services.
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