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17-letter words containing c, o, u, p, n, i

  • gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
  • gupta corporation — (company)   The vendor of SQLWindows. Gupta Corporation provides application development and deployment software for client-server applications, consisting of a relational database, application development tools and transparent connectivity software. Gupta employs 400 people in 15 offices worldwide, including the United States, Europe and Asia. Gupta's 1993 fiscal year income was $5.6 million and their revenue was $56.1 million. Gupta sells client-server system components for networks of personal computers. Address: 1060 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Telephone: +1 (415) 321 9500. Fax: +1 (415) 321 5471.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • immunocompromised — having an impaired or compromised immune response; immunodeficient.
  • immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
  • implicit function — See at implicit (def 4).
  • inclusion complex — a solid solution in which molecules of one compound occupy places in the crystal lattice of another compound. Compare adduct (def 2).
  • inconspicuousness — The condition of being inconspicuous.
  • incubation period — the period between infection and the appearance of signs of a disease.
  • indecent exposure — the intentional exposure of one's body's privates in a manner that gives offense against accepted or prescribed behavior.
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • mercury poisoning — illness caused by exposure to mercury
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • micromanipulation — the technique of performing mechanical operations under high magnification through the use of specialized tools.
  • micromanipulators — Plural form of micromanipulator.
  • microreproduction — a photographic image too small to be read by the unaided eye.
  • mount kirkpatrick — a mountain in Antarctica, in S Victoria Land in the Queen Alexandra Range. Height: 4528 m (14 856 ft)
  • mounted policeman — policemen who patrol on horseback
  • multiple cropping — the use of the same field for two or more crops, whether of the same or of different kinds, successively during a single year.
  • neuropathological — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from neuropathology, the pathology of nerve tissue.
  • neuropsychiatrist — A medical doctor specializing in neuropsychiatry; a medical doctor dealing with disorders that have both neurological and psychiatric features.
  • neuropsychologist — A neurologist or psychologist whose speciality is neuropsychology.
  • nonproductiveness — The quality of being nonproductive.
  • olympic mountains — a mountain range in NW Washington: part of the Coast Range. Highest peak: Mount Olympus, 2427 m (7965 ft)
  • olympic peninsula — a large peninsula of W Washington
  • opportunistically — adhering to a policy of opportunism; practicing opportunism.
  • optical computing — (hardware)   (Or "Optical Signal Processing") Operating on data represented using electromagnetic radiation, e.g. visible light, instead of the electrical signals used in a conventional electronic digital computer. Electronic digital computers are built from transistors. These form components that store data and logic gates that perform the low-level Boolean operations such as AND, OR and NOT that are the basis of all digital computation. The optical equivalent requires material with a non-linear refractive index such that light beams can interact with each other to perform the same Boolean operations. Though the photons that carry optical signals offer some theoretical advantages over the electrons that carry electronic signals, there are many practical problems that would have to be overcome before optical computing could compete in terms of cost, power and speed.
  • organ-pipe cactus — a treelike or columnar cactus, Lemaireocereus marginatus, of Mexico, having a central, erect spine surrounded by spreading spines in clusters of five to eight, and funnel-shaped, brownish-purple flowers.
  • palace revolution — a challenge to or overthrow of a sovereign or other leader by members of the ruling family or group.
  • papanicolaou test — Pap test.
  • particularization — to make particular.
  • per procurationem — by one acting as an agent; by proxy.
  • percussion bullet — a bullet that is exploded by percussion
  • periodic function — a function of a real or complex variable that is periodic.
  • pernicious anemia — Pernicious anemia is a very severe blood disease.
  • perspicaciousness — having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
  • phonological rule — an operation in generative phonology that substitutes one sound or class of sounds for another in a phonological derivation.
  • photoconductivity — the increase in the electrical conductivity of a substance, often nonmetallic, caused by the absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
  • photoluminescence — luminescence induced by the absorption of infrared radiation, visible light, or ultraviolet radiation.
  • piece of business — business (def 10).
  • pincushion cactus — any of various low-growing, spiny cacti of the genus Mammillaria.
  • pincushion flower — scabious2 (def 1).
  • pinpoint accuracy — extreme accuracy
  • point of purchase — designating or in use at a retail outlet where an item can be purchased; point-of-sale: point-of-purchase displays to entice the buyer.
  • point-of-purchase — designating or in use at a retail outlet where an item can be purchased; point-of-sale: point-of-purchase displays to entice the buyer.
  • positive eugenics — the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)
  • post-resurrection — the act of rising from the dead.
  • potassium cyanide — a white, granular, water-soluble, poisonous powder, KCN, having a faint almondlike odor, used chiefly in metallurgy and photography.
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