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17-letter words containing c, r, e, a, m, y

  • emergency landing — an occasion when a place is forced to land: for example, because of a mechanical fault, bad weather, terrorism, etc.
  • emergency rations — food and drink that is designated for use in an emergency: for example, in a famine, after a plane crash, when hill-walkers or mountaineers are stranded, etc.
  • ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
  • fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
  • ferrimagnetically — In a ferrimagnetic manner.
  • gamblers' fallacy — the fallacy that in a series of chance events the probability of one event occurring increases with the number of times another event has occurred in succession
  • garlic mayonnaise — mayonnaise flavoured with garlic
  • haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
  • haemorrhoidectomy — surgical removal of haemorrhoids
  • heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
  • homeland security — national defence
  • hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • ideogrammatically — In terms of, or by means of, ideograms.
  • imperialistically — In an imperialistic manner.
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • key man insurance — Key man insurance is an insurance policy taken out by a small company on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss.
  • key-man assurance — an assurance policy taken out, esp by a small company, on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss
  • keyboard commando — (messaging)   A bulletin board user who posts authoritatively on military or combat topics, but who has never served in uniform or heard a shot fired in anger. A poseur.
  • liberal democracy — a democracy based on the recognition of individual rights and freedoms, in which decisions from direct or representative processes prevail in many policy areas
  • literacy campaign — a campaign designed to reduce illiteracy and promote literacy in a country, area, etc
  • machado y morales — Gerardo [he-rahr-th aw] /hɛˈrɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1939, president of Cuba 1925–33.
  • macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
  • mains electricity — electricity supplied to a building through wires
  • majority decision — a decision supported by more than half the people involved
  • malagasy republic — former name of Madagascar.
  • malay archipelago — an extensive island group in the Indian and Pacific oceans, SE of Asia, including the Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas, and the Philippines.
  • marais des cygnes — a river in E central Kansas and W Missouri, flowing SE to the Osage River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • maraschino cherry — a cherry cooked in colored syrup and flavored with maraschino, used to garnish desserts, cocktails, etc.
  • marriage ceremony — official part of a wedding
  • mass spectroscopy — an instrument used to determine the masses of small, electrically charged particles.
  • materialistically — excessively concerned with physical comforts or the acquisition of wealth and material possessions, rather than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
  • mayflower compact — an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
  • membrane recovery — Membrane recovery is a process which uses membranes to obtain hydrogen from refinery fuel gas, hydrocrackers, and chemical processes such as methanol production.
  • mercantile agency — commercial agency.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
  • micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
  • microphanerophyte — any shrub or tree having a height of 2 to 8 metres
  • 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
  • molecular biology — the branch of biology that deals with the nature of biological phenomena at the molecular level through the study of DNA and RNA, proteins, and other macromolecules involved in genetic information and cell function, characteristically making use of advanced tools and techniques of separation, manipulation, imaging, and analysis.
  • monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
  • monte carlo rally — an annual car rally the destination of which is Monte Carlo
  • motorcycle racing — sport: competing on motorcycles
  • mullerian mimicry — the resemblance in appearance of two or more unpalatable species, which are avoided by predators to a greater degree than any one of the species would be otherwise.
  • 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.
  • muscle dysmorphia — a mental disorder primarily affecting males, characterized by obsessions about a perceived lack of muscularity, leading to compulsive exercising, use of anabolic steroids, etc. Compare body dysmorphic disorder.
  • national cemetery — a cemetery, maintained by the U.S. government, for persons who have served honorably in the armed forces.
  • nephelometrically — By means of nephelometry.
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