17-letter words containing ay
- a roll in the hay — sexual intercourse
- adventure holiday — a holiday that involves some physically challenging activity such as canoeing, rock climbing, etc
- application layer — (networking) The top layer of the OSI seven layer model. This layer handles issues like network transparency, resource allocation and problem partitioning. The application layer is concerned with the user's view of the network (e.g. formatting electronic mail messages). The presentation layer provides the application layer with a familiar local representation of data independent of the format used on the network.
- as who should say — as if one should say
- associative array — (programming) (Or "hash", "map", "dictionary") An array where the indices are not just integers but may be arbitrary strings.
- basketball player — someone who plays basketball
- be out of the way — When something is out of the way, it has finished or you have dealt with it, so that it is no longer a problem or needs no more time spent on it.
- be that as it may — You say 'Be that as it may' when you want to move onto another subject or go further with the discussion, without deciding whether what has just been said is right or wrong.
- bitmapped display — bitmap display
- blow someone away — to kill by shooting
- branch delay slot — delayed control-transfer
- classical pathway — the activation of complement by an antigen-antibody reaction. Compare alternative pathway.
- corday (d'armont) — (Marie Anne) Charlotte1768-93; Fr. Girondist sympathizer: assassin of Marat
- courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
- delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
- display standards — display standard
- dress-down friday — In some companies employees are allowed to wear clothes that are less smart than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a dress-down Friday.
- early closing day — a day on which most shops in a town or area close after lunch
- extraordinary ray — the plane-polarized ray of light that does not obey the laws of refraction in a doubly refracting crystal
- fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
- forever and a day — without ever ending; eternally: to last forever.
- front-end payment — a payment required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
- front-line player — a regular player on a sports team or one who plays in the farthest forward position
- funicular railway — a short, very steep railway having two parallel sets of tracks, upon each of which runs a car or train raised or lowered by means of a cable that simultaneously lowers or raises the other car or train in such a way that the two are approximately counterbalanced.
- gamma-ray burster — a source of gamma-ray bursts
- garlic mayonnaise — mayonnaise flavoured with garlic
- go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
- go out of the way — to inconvenience oneself; do something that one would not ordinarily do, or that requires extra or deliberate effort or trouble
- go without saying — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
- have it both ways — to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites
- highways engineer — a civil engineer trained and specialized in the planning, construction, maintenance, etc of highways and roads
- i am bound to say — You can say 'I am bound to say' to introduce a statement expressing something that you find undesirable or unexpected.
- i wouldn't say no — You use 'I wouldn't say no' to indicate that you would like something, especially something that has just been offered to you.
- illinois waterway — a waterway system in N Illinois made up of canals and rivers connecting Lake Michigan in Chicago with the Mississippi River. 336 miles (541 km) long.
- in broad daylight — openly, in full public view
- in the family way — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
- joachim du bellay — Joachim [French zhaw-a-keem] /French ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), Bellay, Joachim du.
- keep mum/stay mum — If you keep mum or stay mum about something, you do not tell anyone about it.
- klerer-may system — Early system from Columbia University with special mathematics symbols. Its reference manual was two pages long!
- latter-day saints — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- lay it on (thick) — to exaggerate
- make hay (out) of — to turn (something) to one's advantage
- malay archipelago — an extensive island group in the Indian and Pacific oceans, SE of Asia, including the Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas, and the Philippines.
- malayo-polynesian — a family of languages extending from Madagascar to the central Pacific, including Malagasy, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, and Polynesian
- massachusetts bay — an inlet of the Atlantic, off the E coast of Massachusetts.
- may/might as well — If you say that you might as well do something, or that you may as well do it, you mean that you will do it although you do not have a strong desire to do it and may even feel slightly unwilling to do it.
- mayflower compact — an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
- metabolic pathway — biochemistry: sequence of reactions within a cell or organism
- method of payment — cash, credit card, cheque, etc.
- midmorning prayer — the third of the seven canonical hours; terce
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