17-letter words containing ap
- japanese chestnut — any of the several deciduous trees constituting the genus Castanea, of the beech family, having toothed, oblong leaves and bearing edible nuts enclosed in a prickly bur, and including C. dentata (American chestnut) which has been virtually destroyed by the chestnut blight, C. sativa (European chestnut) C. mollissima (Chinese chestnut) and C. crenata (Japanese chestnut)
- japanese clematis — a Japanese woody vine, Clematis paniculata, of the buttercup family, having dense clusters of fragrant, white flowers and plumed fruit.
- japanese knotweed — Mexican bamboo.
- japanese slippers — (in Malaysia) casual sandals; flip-flops
- japanese wisteria — a wisteria, Wisteria floribunda, of Japan, having violet, violet-blue, pink, red, or white flowers, grown in the U.S. as an ornamental.
- kitchen appliance — a machine intended for use in the kitchen, such as a fridge or a food processor
- lan kanal adapter — (networking) (LKA) A sort of external LAN interface for a BS200 computer.
- landscape painter — artist who depicts natural scenery
- landscaped garden — a garden that has been artistically designed
- 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.
- lexicographically — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- lithostratigraphy — the study or character of stratified rocks based solely on their physical and petrographic features.
- lymphangiographic — Relating to lymphangiography.
- make no apologies — If you say that you make no apologies for what you have done, you are emphasizing that you feel that you have done nothing wrong.
- mass spectrograph — a mass spectroscope for recording a mass spectrum on a photographic plate.
- massage therapist — sb who gives body rubs
- metaperiodic acid — the crystalline compound HIO4, an oxyacid of iodine
- methylnaphthalene — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 0 , whose alpha isomer, a colorless liquid, is used in determining cetane numbers.
- microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
- microphotographic — Relating to microphotography.
- misappropriations — Plural form of misappropriation.
- newspaper cutting — clipping from a news publication
- not a happy bunny — deeply dissatisfied or discontented
- oceanographically — In terms of oceanography.
- oregon crab apple — a shrub or small tree, Malus fusca, of the rose family, of the northwestern coast of North America, having hairy leaves, white flowers, and yellow or green oblong fruit.
- over-appreciation — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
- paleobiogeography — the study of the distribution of ancient plants and animals and their relation to ancient geographic features.
- papanicolaou test — Pap test.
- papua new guinean — a native or inhabitant of Papua New Guinea.
- papua-new-guinean — an inhabitant or native of Papua New Guinea
- paraperiodic acid — the crystalline compound H5IO6, an oxyacid of iodine
- past life therapy — a form of hypnosis or meditation based on the belief that an individual's present problems are rooted in events that occurred before birth in this life
- per capita income — the total income of an area or country divided by the number of people in that area or country
- petrol filler cap — a small cover that goes over the hole in a vehicle into which you put petrol
- photofluorography — photography of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination, used in x-ray examination of the lungs of large groups of people.
- phototherapeutics — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of light rays.
- physical handicap — loss of or failure to develop a specific bodily function or functions, whether of movement, sensation, coordination, or speech, but excluding mental impairments or disabilities
- pipeline capacity — The pipeline capacity is the volume of oil or gas which is needed to maintain a full pipeline.
- prefect apostolic — the administrator, usually below the rank of bishop, in charge of a prefecture apostolic.
- primitive baptist — (especially in the Southern U.S.) one belonging to a highly conservative, loosely organized Baptist group, characterized by extreme fundamentalism and by opposition to missionary work, Sunday Schools, and the use of musical instruments in church.
- pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
- psychographically — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychotherapeutic — psychotherapy.
- quality newspaper — a more serious newspaper which gives detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
- quality paperback — a softbound book that is usually larger and more expensive than a mass market paperback and is sold primarily in bookstores as a trade book.
- radiation therapy — x-rays used as treatment
- radiative capture — the capture of a particle, as a neutron, by a nucleus, inducing the emission of electromagnetic radiation, as a gamma ray.
- radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
- rapid prototyping — (programming) The creation of a working model of a software module to demonstrate the feasibility and suitability of the function. The prototype is expected to be replaced or refined before inclusion in the final product. Rapid prototyping contrasts with a DIRFT approach which emphasises careful design and implementation to avoid the overheads of debugging and testing prototype code. Rapid prototyping is appropriate when the requirements are unclear or likely to change (which is most of the time).
- recoil escapement — anchor escapement.