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17-letter words containing a, m, o, r, i, s

  • impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
  • implosion therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
  • implosive-therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
  • impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • improvisationally — In an improvisational way.
  • in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • isomorphism class — (mathematics)   A collection of all the objects isomorphic to a given object. Talking about the isomorphism class (of a poset, say) ensures that we will only consider its properties as a poset, and will not consider other incidental properties it happens to have.
  • 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
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • lambdoidal suture — the lambda-shaped seam or line of joining between the occipital and two parietal bones at the back part of the skull.
  • 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.
  • liberal democrats — (in Britain) a political party with centrist policies; established in 1988 as the Social and Liberal Democrats when the Liberal Party merged with the Social Democratic Party; renamed Liberal Democrats in 1989
  • 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.
  • lombrosian school — a school of criminology, promulgating the theories and employing the methods developed by Lombroso.
  • 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.
  • macroinstructions — Plural form of macroinstruction.
  • magnetic roasting — roasting of a nonmagnetic ore to render it magnetic so that it can be separated from gangue by means of a magnetic field.
  • magnetoresistance — a change in the electrical resistance of a material upon exposure to a magnetic field.
  • maison de moliere — Comédie Française.
  • majority decision — a decision supported by more than half the people involved
  • make conversation — If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
  • make inroads into — to start to use up the supply of something
  • maladministration — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.
  • manicure scissors — scissors for manicuring or trimming the nails
  • maraschino cherry — a cherry cooked in colored syrup and flavored with maraschino, used to garnish desserts, cocktails, etc.
  • mariner's compass — a compass used for navigational purposes, consisting of a pivoted compass card in a gimbal-mounted, nonferrous metal bowl.
  • marital relations — a euphemistic term for sexual intercourse between married partners
  • master of science — a master's degree given usually in a specific branch of the natural sciences, mathematics, or technology.
  • maurice of nassau — Prince of Orange 1567-1625; Du. statesman & military leader
  • meiji restoration — revolution in Japanese life and government that occurred after the accession of Emperor Mutsuhito (1867), characterized by the downfall of the shogun and feudalism and the creation of a modern state
  • meissen porcelain — Dresden china.
  • mensural notation — a system of musical notation of the 13th to the late 16th centuries, marked by the use of note symbols such as the longa and brevis, the absence of bar lines and ties, and the equivalence in value of one note to either two or three of the next smaller degree.
  • mercy otis warren — Earl, 1891–1974, U.S. lawyer and political leader: chief justice of the U.S. 1953–69.
  • messier catalogue — a catalogue of 103 nonstellar objects, such as nebulae and galaxies, prepared in 1781–86. An object is referred to by its number in this catalogue, for example the Andromeda Galaxy is referred to as M31
  • metalloproteinase — (enzyme) Any of several proteinases that have a metal atom (often zinc) at their active centre.
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