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17-letter words containing c, a, r, i, t

  • irreconcilability — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
  • jack-in-the-green — (in England, formerly) a man who wore or supported a leaf-covered wooden framework while dancing in May-Day celebrations
  • 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.
  • junior technician — a rank in the RAF senior to aircraftman: comparable to that of private in the army
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • lagging indicator — A lagging indicator is an economic indicator that changes following a change in the economy, such as unemployment.
  • landscape painter — artist who depicts natural scenery
  • law of reflection — the principle that when a ray of light, radar pulse, or the like, is reflected from a smooth surface the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence, and the incident ray, the reflected ray, and the normal to the surface at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.
  • law of refraction — the principle that for a ray, radar pulse, or the like, that is incident on the interface of two media, the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is equal to the ratio of the velocity of the ray in the first medium to the velocity in the second medium and the incident ray, refracted ray, and normal to the surface at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.
  • law of trichotomy — the property that for natural numbers a and b , either a is less than b , a equals b , or a is greater than b .
  • lead acid battery — A lead acid battery is a 12-volt battery for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles consisting of lead-acid cells in series.
  • leading indicator — A leading indicator is an economic indicator that changes before a change in the economy, and that can be used to predict future economic or financial activity.
  • lexical insertion — the process in which actual morphemes of a language are substituted either for semantic material or for place-fillers in the course of a derivation of a sentence
  • 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
  • liberal education — an education based primarily on the liberal arts, emphasizing the development of intellectual abilities as opposed to the acquisition of professional skills.
  • librocubicularist — (rare) A person who reads in bed.
  • literacy campaign — a campaign designed to reduce illiteracy and promote literacy in a country, area, etc
  • literary executor — a person entrusted with the publishable works and other papers of a deceased author.
  • lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
  • loco primo citato — loc. primo cit.
  • loco supra citato — l.s.c.
  • logical operation — Boolean operation.
  • lower paleolithic — See under Paleolithic.
  • 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.
  • magnetic meridian — a line on the earth's surface, passing in the direction of the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic field.
  • 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.
  • magnetic rotation — Faraday effect.
  • magnetizing force — that part of the magnetic induction that is determined at any point in space by the current density and displacement current at that point independently of the magnetic or other physical properties of the surrounding medium. Symbol: H.
  • magnetoresistance — a change in the electrical resistance of a material upon exposure to a magnetic field.
  • mains electricity — electricity supplied to a building through wires
  • maintainer script — (Debian)   One of the scripts (preinst, prerm, postinst, postrm) that may be included in a Debian binary package. These scripts may create and/or remove symlinks, files or directories that, for some reason, could not be done directly by dpkg. Maintainer scripts frequently create or update the symlinks in the /etc/rc?.d directories and start, stop, or restart daemons.
  • maintenance grant — an amount of money that a government or other institution gives to an individual, esp a student, in order to help them pay for the things that they need
  • maintenance order — a court order stating that a divorced or legally separated man or woman must pay his or her former partner a regular sum in order to cover the costs of living
  • 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.
  • managing director — manager who oversees a project
  • manufacturability — The condition of being manufacturable.
  • mare fecunditatis — (Sea of Fertility) a dark plain in the fourth quadrant and extending into the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 160,000 sq. mi. (415,000 sq. km).
  • master of science — a master's degree given usually in a specific branch of the natural sciences, mathematics, or technology.
  • materialistically — excessively concerned with physical comforts or the acquisition of wealth and material possessions, rather than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
  • materials science — the study of the characteristics and uses of various materials, as glass, plastics, and metals.
  • maternal instinct — motherly urge to protect and nurture
  • mechanoelectrical — Describing the production of electricity by mechanical motion; especially in a transducer.
  • memetic algorithm — (algorithm)   A genetic algorithm or evolutionary algorithm which includes a non-genetic local search to improve genotypes. The term comes from the Richard Dawkin's term "meme". One big difference between memes and genes is that memes are processed and possibly improved by the people that hold them - something that cannot happen to genes. It is this advantage that the memetic algorithm has over simple genetic or evolutionary algorithms. These algorithms are useful in solving complex problems, such as the "Travelling Salesman Problem," which involves finding the shortest path through a large number of nodes, or in creating artificial life to test evolutionary theories. Memetic algorithms are one kind of metaheuristic. (07 July 1997)
  • mental arithmetic — sums done in your head
  • mercantile agency — commercial agency.
  • mercantile marine — the merchant navy
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