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17-letter words containing ni

  • potassium cyanide — a white, granular, water-soluble, poisonous powder, KCN, having a faint almondlike odor, used chiefly in metallurgy and photography.
  • potassium nitrate — a crystalline compound, KNO 3 , produced by nitrification in soil, and used in gunpowders, fertilizers, and preservatives; saltpeter; niter.
  • power supply unit — (hardware)   (PSU) An electronic module that converts high voltage (110 or 240 VAC) alternating current mains electricity into smoothed direct current at the various differnt voltages required by the motherboard; internal peripheral devices, cheifly storage devices: hard disks, CD or DVD, floppy disks and external connections such as USB. A PSU needs a high enough power output rating to supply all the devices connected to it and should output as little as possible electrical noise, both on the output wires and as electromagnetic radiation. See also uninterruptable power supply.
  • pre-communication — the act or process of communicating; fact of being communicated.
  • pre-manifestation — an act of manifesting.
  • prime ministerial — of or relating to the head of a parliamentary government
  • prusso-danish war — a war of 1864 between Prussia and Denmark by which Denmark lost Schleswig-Holstein.
  • pseudo-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • punitive taxation — a form of taxation that is very severe and that people find very difficult to pay
  • purdue university — http://purdue.edu/.
  • quantum mechanics — a theory of the mechanics of atoms, molecules, and other physical systems that are subject to the uncertainty principle. Abbreviation: QM.
  • quasquicentennial — pertaining to or marking a period of 125 years.
  • reconstructionism — a 20th-century movement among U.S. Jews, founded by Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, advocating that Judaism, being a culture and way of life as well as a religion, is in sum a religious civilization requiring constant adaptation to contemporary conditions so that Jews can identify more readily and meaningfully with the Jewish community.
  • reconstructionist — an advocate or supporter of Reconstruction or Reconstructionism.
  • redistributionist — a person who believes in, advocates, or supports income redistribution.
  • remote monitoring — (protocol)   (RMON) A network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single computer. Whereas SNMP gathers network data from a single type of Management Information Base (MIB), RMON 1 defines nine additional MIBs that provide a much richer set of data about network usage. For RMON to work, network devices, such as hubs and switches, must be designed to support it. The newest version of RMON, RMON 2, provides data about traffic at the network layer in addition to the physical layer. This allows administrators to analyse traffic by protocol.
  • restraining order — a judicial order to forbid a particular act until a decision is reached on an application for an injunction.
  • retained earnings — income not paid out as shares
  • retarded ignition — late ignition, which may cause the engine to under-perform
  • returning officer — a public official appointed to conduct and preside at an election.
  • reverse lightning — a faint discharge of blue light from the top of a thunderstorm cloud that propagates upward: extends approximately from the bottom to the top of the stratosphere and is not detectable from the ground.
  • saint-simonianism — the socialist system advocated by the Comte de Saint-Simon
  • sanctimoniousness — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
  • sanitary landfill — landfill.
  • sanitation worker — a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage.
  • scarlet lightning — scarlet lychnis.
  • schizophrenogenic — causative of schizophrenia.
  • scratch 'n' sniff — denoting a product that releases a smell when scratched
  • seine-saint-denis — a department of N central France, in Île-de-France region. Capital: Bobigny. Pop: 1 396 122 (2003 est). Area: 236 sq km (92 sq miles)
  • self-administered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
  • self-annihilation — self-destruction; suicide.
  • self-conditioning — Also called operant conditioning, instrumental conditioning. a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.
  • self-entertaining — affording entertainment; amusing; diverting: We spent an entertaining evening at the theater.
  • self-significance — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
  • senior management — the most senior staff of an organization or business, including the heads of various divisions or departments led by the chief executive
  • significance test — (in hypothesis testing) a test of whether the alternative hypothesis achieves the predetermined significance level in order to be accepted in preference to the null hypothesis
  • significant other — Sociology. a person, as a parent or peer, who has great influence on one's behavior and self-esteem.
  • spanish civil war — the civil war in Spain 1936–39.
  • spanish influenza — the pandemic respiratory infection that spread throughout the world during 1917–18.
  • spinal meningitis — infection of spinal membrane
  • supercolumniation — the placing of one order of columns above another.
  • support mechanism — any formal system or method of providing support or assistance
  • supralapsarianism — the doctrine that the decree of election preceded human creation and the Fall (opposed to infralapsarianism).
  • synchronistically — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synthetic phonics — a method of teaching people to read by training them to pronounce sounds associated with particular letters in isolation and then blend them together
  • taconic mountains — a mountain range in SE New York, W Massachusetts, and SW Vermont, a highly eroded part of the Appalachian system. Highest peak, Mount Equinox, in Vermont 3816 feet (1163 meters).
  • technical college — school of further and vocational education
  • technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
  • technical offence — an action which is prohibited by law, but for which no blame can be attached to the person who commits it
  • technical support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
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