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17-letter words containing ac

  • ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
  • facsimile catalog — a catalog that includes small reproductions of the items listed, as paintings, slides, designs, or the like.
  • facsimile machine — a machine which transmits and receives documents in facsimile transmission
  • factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
  • facts and figures — details; precise information
  • fendalton tractor — a four-wheel drive recreational vehicle
  • fiddleback spider — brown recluse spider.
  • flowering tobacco — any plant belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, as N. alata and N. sylvestris, having clusters of fragrant flowers that usually bloom at night, grown as an ornamental.
  • fort walton beach — a city in NW Florida.
  • forward contracts — Forward contracts are agreements to buy something in the future for a price that has been agreed today.
  • fractal dimension — (mathematics)   A common type of fractal dimension is the Hausdorff-Besicovich Dimension, but there are several different ways of computing fractal dimension. Fractal dimension can be calculated by taking the limit of the quotient of the log change in object size and the log change in measurement scale, as the measurement scale approaches zero. The differences come in what is exactly meant by "object size" and what is meant by "measurement scale" and how to get an average number out of many different parts of a geometrical object. Fractal dimensions quantify the static *geometry* of an object. For example, consider a straight line. Now blow up the line by a factor of two. The line is now twice as long as before. Log 2 / Log 2 = 1, corresponding to dimension 1. Consider a square. Now blow up the square by a factor of two. The square is now 4 times as large as before (i.e. 4 original squares can be placed on the original square). Log 4 / log 2 = 2, corresponding to dimension 2 for the square. Consider a snowflake curve formed by repeatedly replacing ___ with _/\_, where each of the 4 new lines is 1/3 the length of the old line. Blowing up the snowflake curve by a factor of 3 results in a snowflake curve 4 times as large (one of the old snowflake curves can be placed on each of the 4 segments _/\_). Log 4 / log 3 = 1.261... Since the dimension 1.261 is larger than the dimension 1 of the lines making up the curve, the snowflake curve is a fractal. [sci.fractals FAQ].
  • fractionalization — Separation into parts by fractionalizing.
  • galactic latitude — the angular distance from the galactic equator of a point on the celestial sphere.
  • gamblers' fallacy — the fallacy that in a series of chance events the probability of one event occurring increases with the number of times another event has occurred in succession
  • get in on the act — If you get in on the act, you take part in or take advantage of something that was started by someone else.
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • give satisfaction — to satisfy
  • gnu privacy guard —
  • go back to the pa — to abandon city life in favour of rural life
  • government action — intervention by a government, esp to influence financial markets
  • grand climacteric — Physiology. a period of decrease of reproductive capacity in men and women, culminating, in women, in the menopause.
  • green peach aphid — an aphid, Myzus persicae, that is a pest of many fruit trees, ornamentals, and vegetables and a vector of certain viral plant diseases.
  • grey-faced petrel — a dark-coloured New Zealand petrel, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi
  • grignard reaction — the reaction of a Grignard reagent with any of the numerous types of compounds with which it can combine, as alcohols, acids, aldehydes, ketones, or esters: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
  • hairline fracture — a very fine crack in a bone
  • hard nut to crack — a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
  • heptanedioic acid — pimelic acid.
  • herbaceous border — A herbaceous border is a flower bed containing a mixture of plants that flower every year.
  • hexacosanoic acid — cerotic acid.
  • hexadecanoic acid — palmitic acid.
  • hold all the aces — If you say that someone holds all the aces, you mean that they have all the advantages in a contest or situation.
  • homogentisic acid — an intermediate compound in the metabolism of tyrosine and of phenylalanine, found in excess in the blood and urine of persons affected with alkaptonuria.
  • homovanillic acid — the end product of dopamine metabolism, C 9 H 10 O 4 , found in human urine.
  • humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
  • hydrochloric acid — a colorless or faintly yellow, corrosive, fuming liquid, HCl, used chiefly in chemical and industrial processes.
  • hydrofluoric acid — a colorless, fuming, corrosive liquid, HF, an aqueous solution of hydrogen fluoride, used chiefly for etching glass.
  • hypochlorous acid — a weak, unstable acid, HOCl, existing only in solution and in the form of its salts, used as a bleaching agent and disinfectant.
  • hypochondriacally — In a hypochondriacal manner.
  • illocutionary act — an act performed by a speaker by virtue of uttering certain words, as for example the acts of promising or of threatening
  • impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
  • improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
  • in someone's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • indoleacetic acid — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 10 H 9 NO 2 , a natural plant hormone, used especially for stimulating growth and root formation in plant cutting.
  • induction furnace — a type of electric furnace used for melting a charge of scrap by the heat produced by its own electrical resistance.
  • industrial action — job action.
  • inefficaciousness — Lack of efficacy.
  • intent to package — (Debian)   (ITP) A notice, posted to the Debian developer mailing list, announcing a developer's intent to make a new Debian package, including a brief description of the package and its license.
  • interactive video — a computer-optical disk system that displays still or moving video images as determined by computer program and user needs
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