17-letter words that end in n
- denationalisation — Alternative spelling of denationalization.
- denationalization — to remove (an industry or the like) from government ownership or control.
- dental technician — a person who constructs and repairs artificial teeth
- depersonalisation — Alternative spelling of depersonalization.
- depersonalization — the act or an instance of depersonalizing
- dephosphorylation — the removal of a phosphate group from an organic compound, as in the changing of ATP to ADP.
- desynchronisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of desynchronization.
- desynchronization — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- dietrich von bern — Theodoric of Verona: the name of the eastern Gothic emperor Theodoric as it appears in German legends.
- diffused junction — a semiconductor junction formed by diffusing acceptor or donor impurity atoms into semiconductor material to form regions of p-type or n-type conductivity
- diphenylhydantoin — a white, slightly water-soluble powder, C 15 H 11 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its sodium salt to prevent or arrest convulsions in epilepsy.
- direct connection — A re-seller of Internet connections to the PIPEX backbone.
- discomgoogolation — a feeling of anxiety felt by someone who is unable to access the internet
- disidentification — The act of disidentifying, or rejecting a personal or group identity.
- disintermediation — the act of removing funds from savings banks and placing them into short-term investments on which the interest-rate yields are higher.
- disorderly person — a person guilty of disorderly conduct.
- disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
- distillers' grain — a by-product of the distillation process for making whisky, used as an animal foodstuff
- dna amplification — an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
- dobell's solution — a clear, yellowish, aqueous solution of sodium borate, sodium bicarbonate, phenol, and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic and astringent for the nose and throat.
- dollar a year man — of or being an official or employee, especially a federal appointee, who receives a token annual salary, usually of one dollar: a dollar-a-year man.
- doorstep salesman — a door-to-door salesman
- double insulation — Double insulation is insulation that consists of both basic insulation and supplementary insulation.
- double refraction — the separation of a ray of light into two unequally refracted, plane-polarized rays of orthogonal polarizations, occurring in crystals in which the velocity of light rays is not the same in all directions.
- drinking fountain — a water fountain that ejects a jet of water for drinking without a cup.
- droplet infection — infection spread by airborne droplets of secretions from the nose, throat, or lungs.
- dynamic execution — (processor) A combination of techniques - multiple branch prediction, data flow analysis and speculative execution. Intel implemented Dynamic Execution in the P6 after analysing the execution of billions of lines of code.
- eastern tradition — any of the philosophies and teachings that derive from Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and other spiritual traditions of the East
- eastern turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- echo cancellation — A process which removes unwanted echoes from the signal on a telephone line. Echoes are usually caused by impedance mismatches along an analogue line.
- ehelp corporation — (company) A vendor of Microsoft Windows application development tools such as RoboHELP and RoboDemo. EHelp were formerly (around 1997) Blue Sky Software. Address: 7777 Fay Avenue, Suite 201, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Telephone: +1-800-793-0364, +1 (619) 459 6365. Fax: +1 (619) 459 6366.
- election campaign — efforts to promote party or candidate to voters
- electrodeposition — The deposition of a metal on a cathode during electrolysis; used as a method of purification.
- electrofiltration — Electrofiltration is a separation process in which an electric field is applied across a filter to improve separation.
- emergency session — an urgent meeting held by parliament, ministers, etc. to discuss what measures should be taken to deal with an emergency
- energy conversion — the process of changing one form of energy into another, such as nuclear energy into heat or solar energy into electrical energy
- entry examination — the examination people wishing to enter an organization, university, etc, have to take
- epithelialization — (biology) the process that covers a wound with epithelial tissue.
- ethernet meltdown — A network meltdown on Ethernet.
- executive mansion — the White House (in Washington, D.C.), official home of the President of the U.S.
- executive session — a session of the Senate for the discussion of executive business, such as the ratification of treaties: formerly held in secret
- explicit function — a function whose values may be computed directly, as y = x2 + 1
- external relation — a relation that does not hold between its relata, as 4 is greater than 2
- fan-assisted oven — an electric oven in which a fan circulates the air and which uses both top and bottom heat
- fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
- fictitious person — a legal entity or artificial person, as a corporation.
- first-degree burn — a burned place or area: a burn where fire had ripped through the forest.
- fluid lubrication — lubrication in which bearing surfaces are separated by an oil film sustained by the motion of the parts
- football hooligan — a noisy violent football supporter
- forced convection — Forced convection is convection in which the movement of fluid does not happen naturally but is helped by a device such as a fan or pump.