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17-letter words containing ns

  • defending counsel — a barrister who defends a client in a trial
  • defense mechanism — A defense mechanism is a way of behaving or thinking which is not conscious or deliberate and is an automatic reaction to unpleasant experiences or feelings such as anxiety and fear.
  • delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
  • demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
  • dispensationalism — the interpreting of history as a series of divine dispensations.
  • disqualifications — Plural form of disqualification.
  • doberman pinscher — one of a German breed of medium-sized, short-haired dogs having a black, brown, or blue coat with rusty brown markings.
  • double insulation — Double insulation is insulation that consists of both basic insulation and supplementary insulation.
  • dynamic insurance — Dynamic insurance is a type of insurance coverage where the policyholder can choose to increase benefits and premiums by a fixed percentage each year to offset the effects of inflation.
  • eastern townships — an area of central Canada, in S Quebec: consists of 11 townships south of the St Lawrence
  • eastern transvaal — Mpumalanga
  • electric constant — the permittivity of free space, which has the value 8.854 187 × 10–12 farad per metre
  • emergency rations — food and drink that is designated for use in an emergency: for example, in a famine, after a plane crash, when hill-walkers or mountaineers are stranded, etc.
  • emissions trading — the buying and selling of allowances for pollutant emissions
  • executive mansion — the White House (in Washington, D.C.), official home of the President of the U.S.
  • exhaust emissions — Exhaust emissions are substances that come out of an exhaust system into the atmosphere.
  • extension courses — courses offered to outsiders by an educational establishment
  • factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
  • fashion-conscious — interested in, and wanting to wear, fashionable clothes
  • flexible response — a military strategy that enables the response to an attack to be adapted to the nature and strength of the attack
  • flight instrument — any instrument used to indicate the altitude, attitude, airspeed, drift, or direction of an aircraft.
  • foreign relations — (used with a singular verb) the field of foreign affairs: an expert in foreign relations.
  • forensic evidence — evidence obtained by the use of science, for example DNA evidence, etc
  • forensic medicine — the application of medical knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law, especially in court proceedings.
  • fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
  • 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].
  • frankenstein food — any foodstuff that has been genetically modified
  • freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
  • general insurance — insurance (such as house insurance and car insurance) that does not insure someone's life
  • go to ... expense — If you go to the expense of doing something, you do something which costs a lot of money. If you go to great expense to do something, you spend a lot of money in order to achieve it.
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • greensand process — a process for casting iron with sand not previously heated.
  • ground provisions — starchy vegetables, esp root crops and plantains
  • guilty conscience — Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
  • high-density disk — a computer storage disk capable of holding more than 720 kilobytes of data
  • high-tensile wire — wire which can withstand great strain without breaking or becoming deformed
  • hold sb to ransom — If you say that someone is holding you to ransom in British English, or holding you for ransom in American English, you mean that they are using their power to try to force you to do something which you do not want to do.
  • homo floresiensis — a possible species of very small, primitive human: its fossils were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003.
  • hope against hope — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
  • hubble's constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • huygens principle — the principle that all points on a wave front of light are sources of secondary waves and that surfaces tangential to these waves define the position of the wave front at any point in time.
  • huygens' eyepiece — a telescope eyepiece consisting of two planoconvex lenses separated by a distance equal to half the sum of their focal lengths, which are in the ratio of three to one, and oriented so that their curved surfaces face the incident light
  • hyposensitization — The state or process of being reduced in sensitivity especially to an allergen.
  • iberian peninsula — Also called Iberian Peninsula. a peninsula in SW Europe, comprising Spain and Portugal.
  • icositetrahedrons — Plural form of icositetrahedron.
  • image intensifier — any of various devices for amplifying the intensity of an optical image, sometimes used in conjunction with an image converter
  • in the past tense — using a past tense verb
  • incomprehensively — In an incomprehensive manner.
  • inconsequentially — The adverb form of inconsequential: to do something in a manner of little consequence.
  • inconsiderateness — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
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