18-letter words containing i, r, o, n, s, m
- minority president — (in the US) a president who has been elected by the largest number of votes cast but not by a majority of the electorate
- misinterpretations — Plural form of misinterpretation.
- misrepresentations — Plural form of misrepresentation.
- mission controller — a person who works as part of a mission control
- misunderestimation — (nonstandard) An inaccurate underestimation, or an act of misunderestimating.
- moccasin telegraph — the transmission of rumour or secret information; the grapevine
- modulus of torsion — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
- molecular genetics — a subdivision of genetics concerned with the structure and function of genes at the molecular level.
- monographic series — a series of monographs issued in uniform style or format and related by subject or by issuing agency.
- moog (synthesizer) — an early musical synthesizer
- mortgage insurance — policy to compensate for property loan payments
- mosquito repellent — a chemical substance, such as a spray or lotion, applied to the body to prevent mosquitoes biting
- multi-user dungeon — Multi-User Dimension
- multiple ownership — ownership by several people or organizations
- national guardsman — guardsman (def 2).
- neo-pythagoreanism — a philosophical system, established in Alexandria and Rome in the second century b.c., consisting mainly of revived Pythagorean doctrines with elements of Platonism and Stoicism.
- neuropsychodynamic — Of or pertaining to neuropsychodynamics.
- neutrino astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the detection and measurement of neutrinos emitted by the sun and other celestial objects.
- nightmare scenario — If you describe a situation or event as a nightmare scenario, you mean that it is the worst possible thing that could happen.
- nike of samothrace — a Greek marble statue (c200 b.c.) of Nike found at Samothrace and now in the Louvre, Paris.
- nocturnal emission — the release of semen during sleep, often during a sexual dream.
- nominative-address — a noun naming the person to whom one is speaking.
- non-circumstantial — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
- non-discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- noninterventionism — A policy of non-intervention.
- nonpreferentialism — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- nonstriated muscle — smooth muscle
- normally aspirated — A normally aspirated or naturally aspirated engine breathes air at atmospheric pressure.
- offensive material — any published or broadcast content (such as articles, photographs, films, or websites) that is likely to be upsetting, insulting, or objectionable to some or most people
- one's number is up — one is finished; one is ruined or about to die
- operations manager — business director
- osteitis deformans — Paget's disease.
- osteogenic sarcoma — osteosarcoma
- pairs championship — an event in a sport such as tennis or darts open to pairs of competitors
- performance artist — an artist that is involved in a theatrical presentation that incorporates various art forms, such as dance, sculpture, music, etc
- pernicious anaemia — Pernicious anaemia is a very severe blood disease.
- personal exemption — Your personal exemption is the amount of money that is deducted from your gross income before you have to start paying income tax.
- phantasmagorically — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
- photoisomerization — isomerization induced by light.
- photomorphogenesis — plant development that is controlled by light.
- post-impressionism — a varied development of Impressionism by a group of painters chiefly between 1880 and 1900 stressing formal structure, as with Cézanne and Seurat, or the expressive possibilities of form and color, as with Van Gogh and Gauguin.
- postmillenarianism — postmillennialism.
- postviral syndrome — debilitating condition occurring as a sequel to viral illness
- potassium myronate — sinigrin.
- pragmatic sanction — any one of various imperial decrees with the effect of fundamental law.
- precious moonstone — moonstone (def 1).
- presumption of law — a presumption based upon a policy of law or a general rule and not upon the facts or evidence in an individual case.
- prisoner's dilemma — (in game theory) a scenario in which the outcome of one person's decision is determined by the simultaneous decisions of the other participants, resulting in a bad outcome for all of them if all act in their own self-interest.
- processionary moth — a moth of the family Thaumetopoeidae, esp the oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processionea), the larvae of which leave the communal shelter nightly for food in a V-shaped procession
- programming skills — the skills required to write a program so that data may be processed by a computer