17-letter words that end in nt
- dominant tenement — land in favor of which an easement or other servitude exists over another's land.
- effective current — the magnitude of an alternating current having the same heating effect as that of a given magnitude of direct current.
- electric constant — the permittivity of free space, which has the value 8.854 187 × 10–12 farad per metre
- employee discount — When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount, they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
- equinoctial point — either of the two points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic
- error of judgment — a wrong or bad decision
- essential element — any chemical element required by an organism for healthy growth. It may be required in large amounts (macronutrient) or in very small amounts (trace element)
- excess employment — excessive numbers of employees for the amount of work available
- exclamation point — exclamation mark
- export department — the department of a business concerned with the export of the business's goods or services
- fifth commandment — “Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee”: fifth of the Ten Commandments.
- first commandment — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”: first of the Ten Commandments.
- flight instrument — any instrument used to indicate the altitude, attitude, airspeed, drift, or direction of an aircraft.
- flight lieutenant — A flight lieutenant is an officer of middle rank in the British air force.
- flight supplement — an additional charge payable on the price of an air ticket
- flowering currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes sanguineum, growing to 2 to 3 metres (6 to 9ft) in height, with red, crimson, yellow, or white flowers: family Saxifragaceae
- formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
- freund's adjuvant — a water-in-oil emulsion injected with immunogen (Freund's incomplete adjuvant) or with immunogen and killed mycobacteria (Freund's complete adjuvant) to enhance the immune response to the immunogen.
- front-end payment — a payment required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
- full load current — A full load current is the largest current that a motor or other device is designed to carry under particular conditions.
- glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
- gold export point — an exchange rate at which it is as cheap to settle international accounts by exporting gold bullion as by buying bills of exchange
- gold import point — an exchange rate at which it is as cheap to settle international accounts by importing gold bullion as by selling bills of exchange
- great-grandparent — a grandfather or grandmother of one's father or mother.
- greenland current — the ocean current flowing clockwise around S Greenland.
- helicopter parent — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
- hormone treatment — any of several medical treatments using hormones
- 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.
- hydrothermal vent — an opening on the floor of the sea from which hot, mineral-rich solutions issue. Compare vent1 (def 2).
- hyper-intelligent — having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals: an intelligent student.
- hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
- illegal immigrant — a person who has entered a country illegally
- image enhancement — a method of improving the definition of a video picture by a computer program, which reduces the lowest grey values to black and the highest to white: used for pictures from microscopes, surveillance cameras, and scanners
- immunofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or using immunofluorescence.
- immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
- improvement grant — a sum of money provided by a government, local authority, or public fund to finance the amelioration of a building, area of land, etc
- indian restaurant — a restaurant that serves Indian food
- insertion element — a section of DNA that is capable of becoming inserted into another chromosome
- insulin treatment — treatment of diabetes with insulin
- insulin-dependent — of or relating to the type of diabetes that mainly affects young people
- inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
- inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.
- isoelectric point — the pH at which a substance is electrically neutral or at which it is at its minimum ionization.
- job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
- jumping-off point — A jumping-off point or a jumping-off place is a place, situation, or occasion which you use as the starting point for something.
- kendal sneck bent — a fishhook having a wide, squarish bend.
- kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
- ladder tournament — a tournament in which the entrants are listed by name and rank, advancement being by means of challenging and defeating an entrant ranked one or two places higher.
- least fixed point — (mathematics) A function f may have many fixed points (x such that f x = x). For example, any value is a fixed point of the identity function, (\ x . x). If f is recursive, we can represent it as f = fix F where F is some higher-order function and fix F = F (fix F). The standard denotational semantics of f is then given by the least fixed point of F. This is the least upper bound of the infinite sequence (the ascending Kleene chain) obtained by repeatedly applying F to the totally undefined value, bottom. I.e. fix F = LUB {bottom, F bottom, F (F bottom), ...}. The least fixed point is guaranteed to exist for a continuous function over a cpo.
- liability account — A liability account is an account recording a company's liabilities.