17-letter words containing a, m, i, n, o

innominate artery — brachiocephalic artery.
insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
intercolumniation — the space between two adjacent columns, usually the clear space between the lower parts of the shafts.
intercommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of intercommunicate.
intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
intergovernmental — involving two or more governments or levels of government.
intermediate host — the host in which a parasite undergoes development but does not reach sexual maturity.
intersectionalism — The study of minorities within minorities, or intersections between minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination.
intragovernmental — Within a government.
irrational number — a number that cannot be exactly expressed as a ratio of two integers.
irrigation system — a system of supplying (land) with water by means of artificial canals, ditches, etc, esp to promote the growth of food crops
isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
isthmus of panama — an isthmus linking North and South America, between the Pacific and the Caribbean. Length: 676 km (420 miles). Width (at its narrowest point): 50 km (31 miles)
it doesn't matter — You say 'it doesn't matter' to tell someone who is apologizing to you that you are not angry or upset, and that they should not worry.
job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
journeyman joiner — a joiner who is qualified to work in the employment of another
judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
kawasaki syndrome — a syndrome, usually afflicting children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, rashes, irritated eyes and mucous membranes, etc. with possible damage to the cardiovascular system
kennesaw mountain — a mountain in N Georgia, near Atlanta: battle 1864. 1809 feet (551 meters).
khingan mountains — a mountain system of NE China, in W Manchuria. Highest peak: 2034 m (6673 ft)
lake waikaremoana — a lake in the North Island of New Zealand in a dense bush setting. Area: about 55 sq km (21 sq miles)
lambda expression — (mathematics) A term in the lambda-calculus denoting an unnamed function (a "lambda abstraction"), a variable or a constant. The pure lambda-calculus has only functions and no constants.
lame-duck session — (formerly) the December to March session of those members of the U.S. Congress who were defeated for reelection the previous November.
lan administrator — (job) A person who installs and maintains LAN hardware and software. A LAN administrator troubleshoots network usage and computer peripherals. He installs new users, performs system backups and data recovery, and resolves LAN communications problems.
langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
larmor precession — the precession of charged particles, as electrons, placed in a magnetic field, the frequency of the precession (Larmor frequency) being equal to the electronic charge times the strength of the magnetic field divided by 4π times the mass.
lebanon mountains — a mountain range extending the length of Lebanon, in the central part. Highest peak, 10,049 feet (3063 meters).
leibniz mountains — a mountain range on the SW limb of the moon, containing the highest peaks (10 000 metres) on the moon
lempert operation — fenestration (def 3c).
light mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
limousine liberal — a wealthy left-wing person
line of scrimmage — an imaginary line parallel to the goal lines that passes from one sideline to the other through the point of the football closest to the goal line of each team.
lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
local examination — any of various examinations, such as the GCSE, set by university boards and conducted in local centres, schools, etc
logic programming — (artificial intelligence, programming, language) A declarative, relational style of programming based on first-order logic. The original logic programming language was Prolog. The concept is based on Horn clauses. The programmer writes a "database" of "facts", e.g. wet(water). ("water is wet") and "rules", e.g. mortal(X) :- human(X). ("X is mortal is implied by X is human"). Facts and rules are collectively known as "clauses". The user supplies a "goal" which the system attempts to prove using "resolution" or "backward chaining". This involves matching the current goal against each fact or the left hand side of each rule using "unification". If the goal matches a fact, the goal succeeds; if it matches a rule then the process recurses, taking each sub-goal on the right hand side of the rule as the current goal. If all sub-goals succeed then the rule succeeds. Each time a possible clause is chosen, a "choice point" is created on a stack. If subsequent resolution fails then control eventually returns to the choice point and subsequent clauses are tried. This is known as "backtracking". Clauses may contain logic variables which take on any value necessary to make the fact or the left hand side of the rule match a goal. Unification binds these variables to the corresponding subterms of the goal. Such bindings are associated with the choice point at which the clause was chosen and are undone when backtracking reaches that choice point. The user is informed of the success or failure of his first goal and if it succeeds and contains variables he is told what values of those variables caused it to succeed. He can then ask for alternative solutions.
lombrosian school — a school of criminology, promulgating the theories and employing the methods developed by Lombroso.
luminous efficacy — the quotient of the luminous flux of a radiation and its corresponding radiant flux
luminous exitance — the ability of a surface to emit light expressed as the luminous flux per unit area at a specified point on the surface
lumpenproletariat — the lowest level of the proletariat comprising unskilled workers, vagrants, and criminals and characterized by a lack of class identification and solidarity.
lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
lymphangiographic — Relating to lymphangiography.
lyon king of arms — the chief herald of Scotland
macro-linguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
macroinstructions — Plural form of macroinstruction.
macroinvertebrate — (zoology) An invertebrate that is large enough to be seen without the use of a microscope.

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