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18-letter words containing d, e, m, u

  • management studies — the study of the technique, practice, or science of managing a company, business, etc
  • manufactured goods — products made by machine
  • marine underwriter — an underwriter who specializes in marine insurance
  • maximum likelihood — greatest probability
  • medium of exchange — anything generally accepted as representing a standard of value and exchangeable for goods or services.
  • mercurous chloride — calomel.
  • mercury delay line — (storage, history)   An archaic first-in first-out fixed time period data storage device using acoustic transducers to transmit data as waves in a trough or tube of mercury. EDSAC (Cambridge) and UNIVAC I used delay lines.
  • middleburg heights — a town in N Ohio.
  • milkweed butterfly — monarch butterfly.
  • misunderestimation — (nonstandard) An inaccurate underestimation, or an act of misunderestimating.
  • mixed-flow turbine — a water turbine in which water flows radially and axially through the rotating vanes
  • modelling language — (language)   Possibly a kind of programming language designed for describing models and their behaviour. See also data modelling, object relational model, simulation, UML, VRML.
  • modular arithmetic — arithmetic in which numbers that are congruent modulo a given number are treated as the same. Compare congruence (def 2), modulo, modulus (def 2b).
  • molecular medicine — the study of disease or injury at the molecular or cellular level.
  • mordovian 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)
  • moulding technique — the technique used to shape a material into a frame or mould
  • mousseline de soie — a thin, stiff silk or rayon fabric.
  • mucopolysaccharide — (formerly) glycosaminoglycan.
  • multi-user dungeon — Multi-User Dimension
  • multimedia machine — machines that allow users to control and manipulate sound, video, text and graphics
  • multiply-connected — connected but not simply-connected.
  • mutual aid society — A mutual aid society is an organization that provides benefits or other help to its members when they are affected by things such as death, sickness, disability, old age, or unemployment.
  • neurodevelopmental — Of or pertaining to the development of neurological pathways in the brain.
  • neuropsychodynamic — Of or pertaining to neuropsychodynamics.
  • non-fundamentalist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • nonstriated muscle — smooth muscle
  • numerical identity — the relation that holds between two relata when they are the selfsame entity, that is, when the terms designating them have the same reference
  • objective modula-2 — (language)   (Or "ObjM2") An extension to Modula-2 for Cocoa and GNUstep software development. Objective Modula-2 follows the Objective-C object model and retains the bracketed Smalltalk message passing syntax used in Objective-C. Classes written in ObjM2 can be used within ObjC and vice versa. ObjM2 also retains Modula-2's data encapsulation features, namely nested modules with explicit import and export lists. Due to the strict type checking in Modula-2, ObjM2 can be considered a much safer programming language than is ObjC, yet losing none of the capabilities of ObjC.
  • order of magnitude — You can use order of magnitude when you are giving an approximate idea of the amount or importance of something.
  • phosphonium iodide — a colorless to slightly yellowish, crystalline, water-soluble solid, PH 4 I, used in chemical synthesis.
  • pig-tailed macaque — a forest-dwelling southeast Asian macaque, Macaca nemestrina, having a short, curled tail, colonized for animal behavior studies.
  • play cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
  • potassium chloride — a white or colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, KCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers and mineral water, and as a source of other potassium compounds.
  • potassium fluoride — a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, toxic powder, KF, used chiefly as an insecticide, a disinfectant, and in etching glass.
  • pound the pavement — a paved road, highway, etc.
  • production manager — a supervisor of the budget, crew and other details in the production of a film or play
  • programme of study — the prescribed syllabus that pupils must be taught at each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • prometheus unbound — a drama in verse (1820) by Shelley.
  • pseudo-competitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
  • pseudo-symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
  • put one in mind of — to remind (one) of
  • pyramus and thisbe — (in Greek legend) two lovers of Babylon: Pyramus, wrongly supposing Thisbe to be dead, killed himself and she, encountering him in his death throes, did the same
  • pyromucic aldehyde — furfural.
  • quartz-iodine lamp — a type of tungsten-halogen lamp containing small amounts of iodine and having a quartz envelope, operating at high temperature and producing an intense light for use in car headlamps, etc
  • quinacrine mustard — a nitrogen mustard derived from mepacrine and used as a stain for chromosomes
  • red mercuric oxide — a slightly crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous compound, HgO, occurring as a coarse, orange-red powder (red mercuric oxide) or as a fine, orange-yellow powder (yellow mercuric oxide) used chiefly as a pigment in paints and as an antiseptic in pharmaceuticals.
  • redundancy payment — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
  • remembrance sunday — the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday closest to November 11, the anniversary of the armistice of 1918 that ended World War I, on which the dead of both World Wars are commemorated
  • repayment schedule — a document detailing the specific terms of a borrower's loan, such as monthly payment, interest rate, due dates etc
  • residual magnetism — remanence.
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