17-letter words containing p, f, a, c, t
- act of parliament — a law that has been passed by both of the UK Houses of Parliament and has received royal assent
- adjunct professor — a professor employed by a college or university for a specific purpose or length of time and often part-time.
- apostolic fathers — the Fathers of the early Church who immediately followed the Apostles
- artificial person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- café-au-lait spot — a brown patch on the skin that can occur normally in small numbers or in neurofibromatosis, when they are more numerous
- california privet — a privet, Ligustrum ovalifolium, of the olive family, native to Japan, having glossy, oval leaves and long clusters of white flowers, widely used for hedges in the U.S.
- capital formation — the net additions to a capital stock in an accounting period
- centripetal force — a force that acts inwards on any body that rotates or moves along a curved path and is directed towards the centre of curvature of the path or the axis of rotation
- complete fracture — a bone fracture in which the bone is split completely across.
- compound fraction — complex fraction
- compound fracture — A compound fracture is a fracture in which the broken bone sticks through the skin.
- conscript fathers — august legislators, esp Roman senators
- cream of the crop — the best of a group
- cut a poor figure — to appear or behave badly
- dna amplification — an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
- east pacific rise — a long north-south elevation of the sea floor in the E Pacific Ocean extending southward from SW Mexico to the Antarctic Ocean.
- factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
- fair market price — the price of something at which both a seller and a buyer are willing to strike a deal.
- fancy dress party — a party at which the guests wear fancy dress
- first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
- flat as a pancake — without any curves or bumps
- flight of capital — When people lose confidence in a particular economy or market and withdraw their investment from it, you can refer to a flight of capital from that economy or market.
- foucault pendulum — a pendulum that demonstrates the rotation of the earth by exhibiting an apparent change in its plane of oscillation.
- grey-faced petrel — a dark-coloured New Zealand petrel, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi
- impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
- improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
- intraspecifically — Between individuals of the same species.
- job specification — a detailed description of the qualifications, skills, and experience required for a particular post of employment
- jump trace buffer — (JTB) A feature of some pipelined processors (e.g. Amulet, Pentium?) which stores the source and destination addresses of the last few branch instuctions executed. When a branch instruction is fetched, its source is looked for in the JTB. If found, the next instuction fetch will be from the previous destination of that branch. If it turns out that the branch shouldn't have been taken this time, then the pipeline is flushed. This means that in a tight loop it is not necessary to flush the pipeline every time you jump back to the start.
- laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
- mayflower compact — an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
- pacific northwest — the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies
- pacific tree frog — a common terrestrial frog, Hyla regilla, of western North America, having a dark stripe along each side of the head.
- passenger traffic — number of passengers
- peacock butterfly — a European nymphalid butterfly, Inachis io, having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot
- petrol filler cap — a small cover that goes over the hole in a vehicle into which you put petrol
- 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.
- political refugee — a person who has fled from a homeland because of political persecution.
- port orford cedar — a tall tree, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, of coastal Oregon, having flattened, scalelike foliage and wood highly valued as timber.
- positive feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
- pre-configuration — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- pre-modifications — an act or instance of modifying.
- pre-qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- prefect apostolic — the administrator, usually below the rank of bishop, in charge of a prefecture apostolic.
- probation officer — an officer who investigates and reports on the conduct of offenders who are free on probation.
- procurator fiscal — In the Scottish legal system, the procurator fiscal is a public official who puts people on trial.
- protection factor — a figure representing the relative degree of protection from the sun's rays afforded by a particular sunscreen
- protective tariff — a tariff levied on imports to protect the domestic economy rather than to raise revenue
- refractory period — a short period after a nerve or muscle cell fires during which the cell cannot respond to additional stimulation.
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