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17-letter words containing e, m, p, a, t, h

  • metabolic pathway — biochemistry: sequence of reactions within a cell or organism
  • method of payment — cash, credit card, cheque, etc.
  • methylnaphthalene — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 0 , whose alpha isomer, a colorless liquid, is used in determining cetane numbers.
  • microphanerophyte — any shrub or tree having a height of 2 to 8 metres
  • modern pentathlon — an athletic contest consisting of five different events: horse riding with jumps, fencing with electric épée, freestyle swimming, pistol shooting, and cross-country running
  • nephelometrically — By means of nephelometry.
  • non-thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • nonaccomplishment — Something that does not achieve the intended goal.
  • omphalomesenteric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery.
  • overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
  • paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
  • parachute payment — a payment made to alleviate hardship resulting from a sudden loss of income
  • parathyroidectomy — the excision of a parathyroid gland.
  • peer of the realm — any of a class of peers in Great Britain and Ireland entitled by heredity to sit in the House of Lords.
  • phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
  • phase of the moon — Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend. Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine. "This feature depends on having the channel open in mumble mode, having the foo switch set, and on the phase of the moon." See also heisenbug. True story: Once upon a time there was a bug that really did depend on the phase of the moon. There was a little subroutine that had traditionally been used in various programs at MIT to calculate an approximation to the moon's true phase. GLS incorporated this routine into a Lisp program that, when it wrote out a file, would print a timestamp line almost 80 characters long. Very occasionally the first line of the message would be too long and would overflow onto the next line, and when the file was later read back in the program would barf. The length of the first line depended on both the precise date and time and the length of the phase specification when the timestamp was printed, and so the bug literally depended on the phase of the moon! The first paper edition of the Jargon File (Steele-1983) included an example of one of the timestamp lines that exhibited this bug, but the typesetter "corrected" it. This has since been described as the phase-of-the-moon-bug bug.
  • phumiphon aduldet — (Phumiphon Aduldet; Bhumibol Adulyadej) born 1927, king of Thailand since 1946.
  • portmanteau morph — a phonological unit of more than one morpheme, as French au to (him) from a to + le masculine article, which realizes a preposition and the definite article; a single morph that is analyzed as representing two underlying morphemes.
  • pseudo-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • put on the market — offer for sale
  • radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
  • relative pathname — (file system)   A path relative to the working directory. Its first character can be anything but the pathname separator.
  • rhodope mountains — a mountain range in SE Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula extending along the border between Bulgaria and Greece. Highest peak: Golyam Perelik (Bulgaria), 2191 m (7188 ft)
  • schematic capture — The process of entering the logical design of an electronic circuit into a CAE system by creating a schematic representation of components and interconnections.
  • semisophisticated — somewhat sophisticated.
  • september weather — weather characteristic of the month of September, esp in being unpredictable as summer is ending and autumn is beginning
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • south sea company — a British joint stock company that traded in South America in the 18th century. The South Sea Company took over the national debt in return for a monopoly of trade with the South Seas, causing feverish speculation in their stocks, and a financial crash in 1720 (the South Sea Bubble)
  • southampton water — an inlet of the English Channel in S England
  • steamship company — a company which has a fleet of steamships
  • support mechanism — any formal system or method of providing support or assistance
  • swash plate motor — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and converts reciprocating motion to rotation
  • sympathetic magic — magic predicated on the belief that one thing or event can affect another at a distance as a consequence of a sympathetic connection between them.
  • telephone message — a message that is transmitted by telephone
  • temperature chart — a chart monitoring and recording somebody's body temperature, as of a patient at a hospital, etc
  • the electoral map — a map showing the distribution of constituencies over a country
  • the metamorphosis — a short story (1915) by Franz Kafka.
  • the mississippian — the Mississippian period or rock system equivalent to the lower Carboniferous of Europe
  • the olympic flame — the flame that is symbolically lit at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia and transported by relay to the place where the Olympic Games are to be held. It is used to ignite a fire in a cauldron that will burn throughout the Games
  • the primrose path — a pleasurable way of life
  • the-metamorphosis — a short story (1915) by Franz Kafka.
  • thematic approach — teaching organized by theme rather than by school subject
  • thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
  • thermal pollution — a rise in the temperature of rivers or lakes that is injurious to water-dwelling life and is caused by the disposal of heated industrial waste water or water from the cooling towers of nuclear power plants.
  • thiopental sodium — a barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 NaO 2 S, used as an anesthetic in surgery and, in psychiatry, for narcoanalysis and to stimulate recall of past events.
  • throat microphone — a microphone worn around the throat and actuated by vibrations of the larynx, used when background noise would obscure the sound of speech, as in an airplane cockpit.
  • to eat humble pie — If you eat humble pie, you speak or behave in a way which tells people that you admit you were wrong about something.
  • transdermal patch — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
  • ultrametamorphism — metamorphism during which the temperature of a rock exceeds its melting point.
  • unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
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