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17-letter words containing e, m, p, a, c

  • epidemiologically — With regard to epidemiology.
  • epistemologically — In a manner that pertains to epistemology.
  • ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
  • exclamation point — exclamation mark
  • fair market price — the price of something at which both a seller and a buyer are willing to strike a deal.
  • first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
  • foucault pendulum — a pendulum that demonstrates the rotation of the earth by exhibiting an apparent change in its plane of oscillation.
  • frames per second — (unit)   (fps) The unit of measurement of the frame rate of a moving image.
  • geographical mile — nautical mile.
  • glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
  • glymphatic system — Anatomy. the system or process by which cerebrospinal fluid moves through channels formed by glia, cleansing the mammalian brain of harmful waste.
  • homeopathic magic — magic that attempts to control the universe through the mimicking of a desired event, as by stabbing an image of an enemy in an effort to destroy him or her or by performing a ritual dance imitative of the growth of food in an effort to secure an abundant supply; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that similar actions produce similar results.
  • humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
  • hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • iambic pentameter — a verse line consisting of five metrical iambs
  • ice-cream parlour — a place where people go to eat ice cream
  • immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
  • imperialistically — In an imperialistic manner.
  • impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
  • impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
  • improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
  • incandescent lamp — a lamp that emits light due to the glowing of a heated material, especially the common device in which a tungsten filament enclosed within an evacuated glass bulb is rendered luminous by the passage of an electric current through it.
  • incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • insurance premium — payment on an insurance policy
  • japanese clematis — a Japanese woody vine, Clematis paniculata, of the buttercup family, having dense clusters of fragrant, white flowers and plumed fruit.
  • jump trace buffer — (JTB) A feature of some pipelined processors (e.g. Amulet, Pentium?) which stores the source and destination addresses of the last few branch instuctions executed. When a branch instruction is fetched, its source is looked for in the JTB. If found, the next instuction fetch will be from the previous destination of that branch. If it turns out that the branch shouldn't have been taken this time, then the pipeline is flushed. This means that in a tight loop it is not necessary to flush the pipeline every time you jump back to the start.
  • jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • 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.
  • larmor precession — the precession of charged particles, as electrons, placed in a magnetic field, the frequency of the precession (Larmor frequency) being equal to the electronic charge times the strength of the magnetic field divided by 4π times the mass.
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
  • lisp machine lisp — (language)   An extension of Maclisp, now called Zetalisp.
  • literacy campaign — a campaign designed to reduce illiteracy and promote literacy in a country, area, etc
  • load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
  • magnetic monopole — a hypothetical very heavy particle with an isolated magnetic north pole or magnetic south pole.
  • maintainer script — (Debian)   One of the scripts (preinst, prerm, postinst, postrm) that may be included in a Debian binary package. These scripts may create and/or remove symlinks, files or directories that, for some reason, could not be done directly by dpkg. Maintainer scripts frequently create or update the symlinks in the /etc/rc?.d directories and start, stop, or restart daemons.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • mariner's compass — a compass used for navigational purposes, consisting of a pivoted compass card in a gimbal-mounted, nonferrous metal bowl.
  • mascarpone cheese — a very rich, white cream cheese of Italy
  • 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.
  • maximum principle — the theorem that a function of a complex variable that is analytic in a domain and on its boundary attains its maximum absolute value on the boundary.
  • mayflower compact — an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
  • mechanical pencil — a pencil for holding lead that can be extended by mechanical means.
  • medical procedure — A medical procedure is a medical treatment or operation.
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