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19-letter words containing a, o, e

  • missouri meerschaum — corncob (def 2).
  • mohammed ali jinnah — Mohammed Ali ("Quaid-i-Azam") 1876–1948, Muslim leader in India: first governor general of Pakistan 1947–48.
  • mohammed zahir shah — 1914–2007, king of Afghanistan 1933–73.
  • molar heat capacity — the heat capacity of one mole of a substance.
  • molecular astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the study of molecules in space.
  • molecular biologist — a specialist in the study of biological phenomena at the molecular level
  • montezuma's revenge — traveler's diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Mexico.
  • mordvinian republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
  • more often than not — usually
  • moses-in-the-cradle — a plant, Rhoeo spathacea, native to the West Indies and Central America, having leaves with purple undersides and white flowers enclosed in a boat-shaped envelope formed by two bracts.
  • most favored nation — a nation to which privileges of trade are extended under a government policy of giving the same privileges to all nations that are given to any one of them, sometimes depending on whether certain conditions, as of reciprocity, are met
  • most-favored-nation — of or relating to the status, treatment, terms, etc., that are embodied in or conferred by a most-favored-nation clause.
  • mother-in-law plant — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
  • mother-of-thousands — strawberry geranium.
  • motivation research — the application of the knowledge and techniques of the social sciences, especially psychology and sociology, to understanding consumer attitudes and behavior: used as a guide in advertising and marketing.
  • motor generator set — A motor generator set is an alternating current motor that is attached to a generator.
  • motorway restaurant — a restaurant on a motorway
  • mount desert island — an island off the coast of E central Maine: summer resort; forms part of Acadia National Park. 14 miles (23 km) long; 8 miles (13 km) wide.
  • mouse-ear chickweed — any of various similar and related plants of the genus Cerastium
  • mousseline de laine — a thin worsted fabric, often having a printed pattern.
  • mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
  • multidimensionality — The property of being multidimensional.
  • multinomial theorem — an expression of a power of a sum in terms of powers of the addends, a generalization of the binomial theorem.
  • multiplexor channel — (MPX) mainframe terminology for a slow peripheral device connection, e.g. for a printer, operator console, or card reader.
  • munchausen syndrome — a factitious disorder in which otherwise healthy individuals seek to hospitalize themselves with feigned or self-induced pathology in order to receive surgical or other medical treatment.
  • mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
  • music to one's ears — something that is very pleasant to hear
  • nagling coalescence — (networking, algorithm)   An algorithm for improving TCP/IP network performance by combining small packets ("tinygrams") into larger ones, thus reducing the per-packet overhead. The server transmits the packet either when it has reached a preset size or when it receives an acknowledgment of the previous packet.
  • nail polish remover — solvent for removing nail polish
  • napierian logarithm — natural logarithm.
  • nasty piece of work — malicious person
  • nathaniel hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • national assistance — (in Britain) formerly a weekly allowance paid to certain people by the state to bring their incomes up to minimum levels established by law
  • national characters — (character)   Characters with accents and other diacritical marks that are used in certain written languages (that are based on the Roman alphabet) but not in others, particularly not in English. A standard list is ISO Latin 1.
  • national convention — French History. the legislature of France 1792–95.
  • national government — A national government is a government with members from more than one political party, especially one that is formed during a crisis.
  • national serviceman — a soldier undertaking compulsory military service
  • natural catastrophe — A natural catastrophe is an unexpected event, caused by nature, such as an earthquake or flood, in which there is a lot of suffering, damage, or death.
  • near to one's heart — cherished or important
  • necessary condition — prerequisite
  • negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
  • negative income tax — a system of income subsidy through which persons having less than a certain annual income receive money from the government rather than pay taxes to it.
  • neighbourhood watch — a scheme under which members of a community agree together to take responsibility for keeping an eye on each other's property, as a way of preventing crime
  • nernst heat theorem — the principle that reactions in crystalline solids involve changes in entropy that tend to zero as the temperature approaches absolute zero
  • nerve growth factor — a protein that promotes the growth, organization, and maintenance of sympathetic and some sensory nerve cells. Abbreviation: NGF.
  • network termination — (NT, NT1) A device connecting the customer's data or telephone equipment to the local ISDN exchange carrier's line. The NT device provides a connection for terminal equipment (TE) and terminal adaptor (TA) equipment to the local loop.
  • neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
  • neuropsychodynamics — The theoretical synthesis of neuroscience and psychodynamics.
  • neurotransmissional — Relating to neurotransmission.
  • new general catalog — a catalog of star clusters, galaxies, and other non-stellar objects, published in 1888
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