17-letter words that end in t
- imitation doublet — a doublet formed entirely of glass.
- 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
- in broad daylight — openly, in full public view
- in the event that — if it happens that
- inalienable right — right that cannot be taken away
- independent audit — an audit of a company conducted by accountants from an outside accounting firm (distinguished from internal audit).
- indian restaurant — a restaurant that serves Indian food
- industrial unrest — business: among employees
- insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
- 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
- intelligence test — any of various tests, as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or the Stanford-Binet test, designed to measure the intellectual capacity of a person.
- intermediate host — the host in which a parasite undergoes development but does not reach sexual maturity.
- internal conflict — psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, the resolution of which creates the plot's suspense: Hamlet's inaction is caused by internal conflict.
- interrupt request — (IRQ) The name of an input found on many processors which causes the processor to suspend normal instruction execution temporarily and to start executing an interrupt handler routine. Such an input may be either "level sensitive" - the interrupt condition will persist as long as the input is active or "edge triggered" - an interrupt is signalled by a low-to-high or high-to-low transition on the input. Some processors have several interrupt request inputs allowing different priority interrupts.
- 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.
- j. presper eckert — (person) One of the developers of ENIAC.
- japanese chestnut — any of the several deciduous trees constituting the genus Castanea, of the beech family, having toothed, oblong leaves and bearing edible nuts enclosed in a prickly bur, and including C. dentata (American chestnut) which has been virtually destroyed by the chestnut blight, C. sativa (European chestnut) C. mollissima (Chinese chestnut) and C. crenata (Japanese chestnut)
- jerusalem cricket — a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper, Stenopelmatus fuscus, occuring chiefly in loose soil and sand along the Pacific coast of the U.S.
- 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
- kiloelectron volt — 1000 electron-volts. Abbreviation: keV, kev.
- kinesthesiologist — Someone who practices kinesthesiology.
- knock oneself out — to make great efforts; exhaust oneself
- la perouse strait — a strait between S Sakhalin Island, Russia and N Hokkaido Island, Japan connecting the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan. 25 miles (40 km) wide.
- 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.
- lady of the night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
- lady-of-the-night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
- last-in first-out — stack
- 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.
- leg before wicket — a manner of dismissal on the grounds that a batsman has been struck on the leg by a bowled ball that otherwise would have hit the wicket
- lepidopterologist — One who studies lepidopterology.
- letter of comfort — comfort letter.
- letter of request — a letter sent from a court to a foreign court requesting judicial assistance
- liability account — A liability account is an account recording a company's liabilities.
- librocubicularist — (rare) A person who reads in bed.
- life imprisonment — long-term prison sentence
- light heavyweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a middleweight and a heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 175 pounds (80 kg).
- linear assignment — assignment problem
- linking consonant — a consonant inserted between two vowels in speech
- liquid propellant — a rocket propellant in liquid form.
- load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
- low-hanging fruit — the fruit that grows low on a tree and is therefore easy to reach