17-letter words containing rs

nursing auxiliary — someone who performs duties such as washing and dressing patients, making beds, etc, in an establishment such as a hospital
on one's doorstep — very close or accessible
oversquare engine — An oversquare engine is an engine which has a cylinder bore that is larger than its stroke.
overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
oystershell scale — a scale insect, Lepidosaphes ulmi, having a scale shaped like the shell of an oyster, which infests various deciduous trees and shrubs.
parallel universe — Physics. any of a hypothetical collection of undetectable universes that are like our known universe but have branched off from our universe due to a quantum-level event. See also multiverse.
persistent memory — non-volatile storage
persona non grata — a person who is not welcome: He has become persona non grata in our club since his angry outburst.
personal computer — a compact computer that uses a microprocessor and is designed for individual use, as by a person in an office or at home or school, for such applications as word processing, data management, financial analysis, or computer games. Abbreviation: PC.
personal distance — personal space.
personal equation — the tendency to personal bias that accounts for variation in interpretation or approach and for which allowance must be made.
personal property — an estate or property consisting of movable articles both corporeal, as furniture or jewelry, or incorporeal, as stocks or bonds (distinguished from real property).
personality clash — friction between two people who have different personalities or points of view
personnel carrier — a vehicle used for transporting troops
personnel manager — head of Human Resources department
personnel officer — a worker responsible for recruiting employees and dealing with matters relating to them
perspicaciousness — having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
private ownership — the fact of being owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
purdue university — http://purdue.edu/.
recursion formula — a formula for determining the next term of a sequence from one or more of the preceding terms.
recursive acronym — (convention) A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
reverse apartheid — a perceived bias against White people following the end of Apartheid
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.
safety in numbers — If you say that there is safety in numbers, you mean that you are safer doing something if there are a lot of people doing it rather than doing it alone.
sb could do worse — If you tell someone that they could do worse than do a particular thing, you are advising them that it would be quite a good thing to do.
scattered showers — showers that are scattered across an area, or that occur at intervals throughout the day
sleeping quarters — the rooms where people sleep in a large building or complex or on a boat etc
slip-joint pliers — pliers having a sliding joint, permitting the span of the jaws to be adjusted.
smoke and mirrors — (used with a singular or plural verb) something that distorts or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful deception.
split personality — multiple personality.
stars and stripes — US national flag
stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
superstitiousness — of the nature of, characterized by, or proceeding from superstition: superstitious fears.
take no prisoners — to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
take years off sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has taken years off someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much younger.
take-no-prisoners — wholeheartedly aggressive; zealous; gung-ho: a businessman with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward dealmaking.
teachers' college — a college, usually having a four-year curriculum and granting a bachelor's degree, for training teachers for elementary and secondary schools
telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
the first line of — If you refer to a method as the first line of, for example, defence or treatment, you mean that it is the first or most important method to be used in dealing with a problem.
the horse's mouth — the most reliable source
the seven sisters — a group of seven liberal arts colleges in the north-eastern United States, comprised of Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley Colleges; they were all founded as institutions for women, although Radclife and Vassar are no longer solely for female students.
the varsity match — a sporting fixture between Oxford and Cambridge university rugby teams
theory of numbers — number theory.
thirty years' war — the war, often regarded as a series of wars (1618–48), in central Europe, initially involving a conflict between German Protestants and Catholics and later including political rivalries with France, Sweden, and Denmark opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.
three-course meal — A three-course meal is a meal that consists of three parts served one after the other.
to do one's worst — If someone does their worst, they do everything unpleasant that they can possibly do. You can say 'do your worst' to show someone that you are not frightened of what they may do.
to run its course — If something runs its course or takes its course, it develops naturally and comes to a natural end.
tolpuddle martyrs — six farm workers sentenced to transportation for seven years in 1834 for administering an unlawful oath to form a trade union in the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset
traffic diversion — a special route arranged for traffic to follow when the normal route cannot be used

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