17-letter words containing a, n, t, e, l
- mental arithmetic — sums done in your head
- mental deficiency — mental retardation
- mental disability — a general or specific intellectual handicap, resulting directly or indirectly from injury to the brain or from abnormal neurological development
- mental impairment — (in England, according to the Mental Health Act 1983) a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind, which includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning and is associated with abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct
- mentally impaired — with reduced or weakened mental capacity
- mercantile agency — commercial agency.
- mercantile marine — the merchant navy
- mercantile system — a system of political and economic policy, evolving with the modern national state and seeking to secure a nation's political and economic supremacy in its rivalry with other states. According to this system, money was regarded as a store of wealth, and the goal of a state was the accumulation of precious metals, by exporting the largest possible quantity of its products and importing as little as possible, thus establishing a favorable balance of trade.
- metallofullerenes — Plural form of metallofullerene.
- metalloproteinase — (enzyme) Any of several proteinases that have a metal atom (often zinc) at their active centre.
- methemoglobinemia — (medicine) A form of toxic anemia characterized by the presence of methemoglobin in the blood.
- methyl isocyanate — Chemistry. a highly toxic, flammable, colorless liquid, CH 3 NCO, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of pesticides: in 1984, the accidental release of a cloud of this gas in Bhopal, India, killed more than 1700 people and injured over 200,000.
- methylnaphthalene — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 0 , whose alpha isomer, a colorless liquid, is used in determining cetane numbers.
- methyltransferase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of methyl groups from one molecule to another.
- microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
- microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
- micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
- middle management — the middle echelon of administration in business and industry.
- midsagittal plane — a plane passing through the nasion when the skull is oriented in the Frankfurt horizontal.
- mileage indicator — a device on a vehicle such as a car, plane, etc which indicates the number of miles travelled
- militant tendency — (in Britain) a Trotskyist group formerly operating within the Labour Party
- military covenant — the supposed understanding that members of the armed forces and their families will be supported by the state in the event of injury or death in the course of duty
- military governor — the military officer in command of a military government.
- mineralocorticoid — Biochemistry. any of a group of corticosteroid hormones, synthesized by the adrenal cortex, that regulate the excretion or reabsorption of sodium and potassium by the kidneys, salivary glands, and sweat glands.
- minion of the law — a policeman.
- ministering angel — a spirit who is believed to look after the needs of a particular person or group
- miss lonelyhearts — a novel (1933) by Nathanael West.
- misunderstandable — Capable of being misunderstood.
- modern pentathlon — an athletic contest consisting of five different events: horse riding with jumps, fencing with electric épée, freestyle swimming, pistol shooting, and cross-country running
- monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
- mont-saint-michel — a rocky islet near the coast of NW France, in an inlet of the Gulf of St. Malo: famous abbey and fortress.
- monte carlo rally — an annual car rally the destination of which is Monte Carlo
- monumentalization — to establish an enduring memorial or record of.
- moral re-armament — a worldwide movement initiated by Frank Buchman in 1938 as a successor to the Oxford Group, and maintaining that the practice of high morality in public and private life is the key to world betterment. Abbreviation: MRA.
- more than usually — You use more than usually to show that something shows even more of a particular quality than it normally does.
- motorcycle racing — sport: competing on motorcycles
- mounted policeman — policemen who patrol on horseback
- multi-directional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- multi-millionaire — a person who possesses a fortune that amounts to many millions of dollars, francs, etc.
- multicollinearity — (statistics) A phenomenon in which two or more predictor variables in a multiple regression model are highly correlated, so that the coefficient estimates may change erratically in response to small changes in the model or data.
- multigenerational — of or relating to several generations, as of a family, or society: a multigenerational novel covering 300 years.
- multimillionaires — Plural form of multimillionaire.
- multiple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of more than one variable and which requires for evaluation repetition of the integration process.
- multiple-unit car — a self-propelled railroad car, generally used in commuting service, equipped so that a train of such cars can be operated from any one of them.
- multipotentiality — The capacity to develop in multiple ways; the state of having multiple potentialities.
- mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
- muscae volitantes — floater (def 6).
- musical interlude — an interval in a play, event or occasion during which music is played
- mutual inductance — the ratio of the electromotive force in one of two circuits to the rate of change of current in the other circuit.
- naked singularity — an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole