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17-letter words containing i, m, a, r, e

  • transcendentalism — transcendental character, thought, or language.
  • transmission line — a system of conductors, as coaxial cable, a wave guide, or a pair of parallel wires, used to transmit signals.
  • tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
  • trigger mechanism — a physiological or psychological process caused by a stimulus and resulting in a usually severe reaction.
  • tropical maritime — a type of warm, wet air mass originating at low latitudes over ocean areas
  • tropical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of diseases occurring in the tropics.
  • trucial sheikdoms — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
  • tympanic membrane — eardrum.
  • ultimate strength — the quantity of the utmost tensile, compressive, or shearing stress that a given unit area of a certain material is expected to bear without failing.
  • ultrametamorphism — metamorphism during which the temperature of a rock exceeds its melting point.
  • ultramicrobalance — a balance for weighing precisely, to a hundredth of a microgram or less, minute quantities of material.
  • uncircumscribable — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
  • undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • universal grammar — a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
  • unix brain damage — Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that it will interoperate with Unix systems. The hack may qualify as "Unix brain damage" if the program conforms to published standards and the Unix program in question does not. Unix brain damage happens because it is much easier for other (minority) systems to change their ways to match non-conforming behaviour than it is to change all the hundreds of thousands of Unix systems out there. An example of Unix brain damage is a kluge in a mail server to recognise bare line feed (the Unix newline) as an equivalent form to the Internet standard newline, which is a carriage return followed by a line feed. Such things can make even a hardened jock weep.
  • unprofessionalism — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • user brain damage — (humour)   (UBD) A description (usually abbreviated) used to close a trouble report obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part. Compare pilot error; opposite: PBD; see also brain-damaged, PEBCAK.
  • vacuum extraction — applying suction to a baby's head during birth to help it emerge
  • valetudinarianism — the state, condition, or habits of a valetudinarian.
  • variable-geometry — denoting an aircraft in which the wings are hinged to give the variable aspect ratio colloquially known as a swing-wing
  • velaric airstream — a current of mouth air produced by the action of the tongue, operant in forming click sounds.
  • vertical mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
  • vestibular system — the sensory mechanism in the inner ear that detects movement of the head and helps to control balance
  • victor emmanuel i — 1759–1824, king of Sardinia 1802–21.
  • visually impaired — (of a person) having reduced vision so severe as to constitute a handicap.
  • waist measurement — a measure of the circumference of the narrowest part of a person's waist
  • waiver of premium — a provision in a policy establishing specific conditions under which the policy will be kept in force without the policyholder's being required to continue to pay premiums.
  • walk-in apartment — a ground-floor apartment having a private entrance directly from the street, rather than through a hallway of the building.
  • war establishment — the full wartime complement of men, equipment, and vehicles of a military unit
  • wardrobe mistress — a woman in charge of keeping theatrical costumes cleaned, pressed, and in wearable condition.
  • warm-up exercises — preparatory exercises done to warm up the muscles
  • water lily family — the plant family Nymphaeaceae, characterized by aquatic herbaceous plants having usually broad leaves, solitary, often showy flowers, and fruit in a variety of forms, and including the lotus (genus Nelumbo), spatterdock, water lily, and water shield.
  • welfare economics — a branch of economics concerned with improving human welfare and social conditions chiefly through the optimum distribution of wealth, the relief or reduction of unemployment, etc.
  • westminster abbey — a Gothic church in London, England.
  • william shoemaker — William Lee ("Willie") 1931–2003, U.S. jockey.
  • williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties
  • wimshurst machine — a device for the production of electric charge by electrostatic induction, consisting of two oppositely rotating glass or mica disks carrying metal strips upon which charges are induced and subsequently removed by contact with metallic combs.
  • wire entanglement — a barbed-wire obstacle, usually mounted on posts and zigzagged back and forth along a front, designed to channel, delay, or halt an advance by enemy foot soldiers.
  • withdrawal method — a method of contraception in which the man withdraws his penis from the woman's vagina before ejaculation
  • wrangell-mountain — Mount, an active volcano in SE Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. 14,006 feet (4269 meters).
  • x-ray examination — an examination of part of the body, using an X-ray machine
  • yellow journalism — a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.
  • yesterday morning — during the morning of the day preceding today
  • yield to maturity — The yield to maturity of a bond is the rate of return on the bond if it is held to its maturity date.
  • zonal pelargonium — a pelargonium whose leaves are marked with concentric circles of a different colour to the rest of the leaf
  • zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.
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