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17-letter words containing c, a, t, e, r, o

  • irreconcilability — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
  • john of lancaster — Duke of Bedford, 1389–1435, Bedford, John of Lancaster, Duke of.
  • junior technician — a rank in the RAF senior to aircraftman: comparable to that of private in the army
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • kvatro telecom as — (company)   The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
  • lance of courtesy — a lance having a blunt head to prevent serious injury by a jouster to an opponent.
  • laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • logical operation — Boolean operation.
  • lower paleolithic — See under Paleolithic.
  • macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
  • macroinvertebrate — (zoology) An invertebrate that is large enough to be seen without the use of a microscope.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • make reference to — mention, allude to
  • management course — a course provided by an educational establishment such as a university, which teaches skills concerning the management of a company, business, etc
  • managing director — manager who oversees a project
  • manchester school — a school of economists in England in the first half of the 19th century, devoted to free trade and the repeal of the Corn Law, led by Richard Cobden and John Bright.
  • manhattan project — U.S. History. the unofficial designation for the U.S. War Department's secret program, organized in 1942, to explore the isolation of radioactive isotopes and the production of an atomic bomb: initial research was conducted at Columbia University in Manhattan.
  • manufactured home — a prefabricated house, assembled in modular sections.
  • mass spectrograph — a mass spectroscope for recording a mass spectrum on a photographic plate.
  • mass spectrometer — a device for identifying the kinds of particles present in a given substance: the particles are ionized and beamed through an electromagnetic field and the manner in which they are deflected is indicative of their mass and, thus, their identity.
  • mass spectroscope — an instrument used to determine the masses of small, electrically charged particles.
  • mass spectroscopy — an instrument used to determine the masses of small, electrically charged particles.
  • master of science — a master's degree given usually in a specific branch of the natural sciences, mathematics, or technology.
  • mayflower compact — an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
  • mechanoelectrical — Describing the production of electricity by mechanical motion; especially in a transducer.
  • megaelectron volt — million electron volts.
  • 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)
  • merchant of death — a company, nation, or person that sells military arms on the international market, usually to the highest bidder and without scruple or regard for political ramifications.
  • mercury barometer — a barometer in which the weight of a column of mercury in a glass tube with a sealed top is balanced against that of the atmosphere pressing on an exposed cistern of mercury at the base of the mercury column, the height of the column varying with atmospheric pressure.
  • 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
  • metaperiodic acid — the crystalline compound HIO4, an oxyacid of iodine
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
  • microinvertebrate — An invertebrate of microscopic size.
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