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17-letter words containing d, u, n, i

  • jalal ud-din rumi — Jalal ud-din [Persian jah-lahl ood-deen,, oo d-,, ja-] /Persian dʒɑˈlɑl udˈdin,, ʊd-,, dʒæ-/ (Show IPA), Jalal ud-din Rumi.
  • jammu and kashmir — official name of Kashmir (def 2).
  • juazeiro do norte — a city in Bahia state, NE Brazil.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • jurisprudentially — In terms of jurisprudence.
  • juvenile diabetes — any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
  • juvenile offender — a child or young person who has been found guilty of some offence, act of vandalism, or antisocial behaviour before a juvenile court
  • kerguelen islands — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
  • lago de nicaragua — Spanish name of Lake Nicaragua.
  • lame-duck session — (formerly) the December to March session of those members of the U.S. Congress who were defeated for reelection the previous November.
  • latitudinarianism — Tolerance of other people's views, particularly in religious context.
  • legendre equation — a differential equation of the form (1− x 2) d2y/dx2 − 2 xdy/dx + a (a + 1) y = 0, where a is an arbitrary constant.
  • liberal education — an education based primarily on the liberal arts, emphasizing the development of intellectual abilities as opposed to the acquisition of professional skills.
  • lick one's wounds — an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
  • line of induction — (formerly) a line of force in a magnetic field.
  • line of longitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating longitude
  • liquid propellant — a rocket propellant in liquid form.
  • liquidity cushion — a reserve fund of assets held by a company or person
  • long island sound — an arm of the Atlantic between Connecticut and Long Island. 90 miles (145 km) long.
  • longitudinal wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is the same as the direction of propagation, as a sound wave.
  • magellanic clouds — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
  • manitoulin island — an island in N Lake Huron belonging to Canada. 80 miles (130 km) long.
  • many-valued logic — the study of logical systems in which the truth-values that a proposition may have are not restricted to two, representing only truth and falsity
  • 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).
  • marquesas islands — a group of volcanic islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia. Pop: 8712 (2002). Area: 1287 sq km (497 sq miles)
  • marriage guidance — counselling for married couples
  • 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.
  • medical insurance — a type of insurance intended to cover possible future medical expenses
  • medical marijuana — marijuana prescribed by a doctor and used as a medicine: medical marijuana in pill form or oral spray.
  • memoised function — memo function
  • memoized function — memo function
  • metatungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H2W4O13
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • 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.
  • midsummer madness — a temporary lapse into foolishness, senseless behavior, folly, etc., especially during the summer: His plan to become a beachcomber is midsummer madness.
  • millennium bridge — a steel bridge for pedestrians over the River Thames linking the City of London at St Paul's Cathedral with the Tate Modern Gallery at Bankside: it has a span of 325 m (1056 ft)
  • mississippi sound — an arm of the Gulf of Mexico, extending from Lake Borgne, SE Louisiana, to Mobile Bay, SW Alabama: part of the Intracoastal Waterway. About 100 miles (160 km) long.
  • misunderstandable — Capable of being misunderstood.
  • misunderstandings — Plural form of misunderstanding.
  • modeling language — modelling language
  • mounted policeman — policemen who patrol on horseback
  • multi-directional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
  • multidisciplinary — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
  • multitudinousness — The state or condition of being multitudinous.
  • musical interlude — an interval in a play, event or occasion during which music is played
  • mutual inductance — the ratio of the electromotive force in one of two circuits to the rate of change of current in the other circuit.
  • naked singularity — an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole
  • nasolacrimal duct — a membranous canal extending from the lacrimal sac to the nasal cavity, through which tears are discharged into the nose.
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