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17-letter words containing d, i, m, e, t

  • inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.
  • it doesn't matter — You say 'it doesn't matter' to tell someone who is apologizing to you that you are not angry or upset, and that they should not worry.
  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • lambdoidal suture — the lambda-shaped seam or line of joining between the occipital and two parietal bones at the back part of the skull.
  • 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
  • limited liability — a liability restricted by law or contract, as the liability of owners of shares in a corporation or limited company, or that of a special partner.
  • liquid petrolatum — mineral oil.
  • lithium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound, LiOH, used to absorb carbon dioxide, especially in spacesuits.
  • load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
  • lobster thermidor — a dish of cooked lobster meat placed back in the shell with a cream sauce, sprinkled with grated cheese and melted butter, and browned in the oven.
  • locomotive driver — an engine driver
  • lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
  • madiba generation — the generation born around 1994, when Nelson Mandela became the first president of a multiracial South Africa
  • magnetic meridian — a line on the earth's surface, passing in the direction of the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic field.
  • maintained school — a school financially supported by the state
  • 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 inroads into — to start to use up the supply of something
  • man's best friend — a dog, especially as a pet.
  • managing director — manager who oversees a project
  • 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).
  • martha's vineyard — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. About 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
  • mean piston speed — The mean piston speed is the distance traveled by a piston in a specified amount of time.
  • mean-spiritedness — the quality of being mean-spirited
  • media access unit — (networking)   (MAU or Multistation Access Unit, MSAU) In a Token Ring network, a device to attach multiple network stations in a star topology, internally wired to connect the stations into a logical ring. The MAU contains relays to short out nonoperating stations. Multiple MAUs can be connected into a larger ring through their Ring In/Ring Out connectors.
  • mediterranean sea — a sea surrounded by Africa, Europe, and Asia. 2400 miles (3865 km) long; 1,145,000 sq. mi. (2,965,550 sq. km); greatest known depth 14,436 feet (4400 meters).
  • medium close shot — a shot taken fairly close to the subject, but not as close as a close-up
  • memoised function — memo function
  • memoized function — memo function
  • mental deficiency — mental retardation
  • mental disability — a general or specific intellectual handicap, resulting directly or indirectly from injury to the brain or from abnormal neurological development
  • mentally impaired — with reduced or weakened mental capacity
  • metaperiodic acid — the crystalline compound HIO4, an oxyacid of iodine
  • metatungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H2W4O13
  • method invocation — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, the way the program looks up the right code to run when a method with a given name is called ("invoked") on an object. The method is first looked for in the object's class, then that class's superclass and so on up the class hierarchy until a method with the given name is found (the name is "resolved"). Generally, method lookup cannot be performed at compile time because the object's class is not known until run time. This is the case for an object method whereas a class method is just an ordinary function (that is bundled with a given class) and can be resolved at compile time (or load time in the case of a dynamically loaded library).
  • methylacetic acid — propionic acid.
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • mexican hat dance — a dance performed by couples, consisting of eight measures during which the dancers kick out each foot alternately, followed by eight more measures during which they swing around with interlocking arms.
  • mexican stand-off — A Mexican stand-off is a situation in which neither of the people or groups in a conflict or dispute can win and neither wants to give in first.
  • microdensitometer — a densitometer for measuring the density of minute areas of photographic negatives.
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • microminiaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of microminiaturize.
  • microreproduction — a photographic image too small to be read by the unaided eye.
  • mid-level network — (Or "regional network"). The kind of networks which make up the second level of the Internet hierarchy. They are the transit networks which connect the stub networks to the backbone networks.
  • middle management — the middle echelon of administration in business and industry.
  • midsagittal plane — a plane passing through the nasion when the skull is oriented in the Frankfurt horizontal.
  • midterm elections — elections held halfway through the term of office of a president during which governors, etc, but not a president, are elected
  • mileage indicator — a device on a vehicle such as a car, plane, etc which indicates the number of miles travelled
  • militant tendency — (in Britain) a Trotskyist group formerly operating within the Labour Party
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