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17-letter words containing l, i, m, o

  • discomgoogolation — a feeling of anxiety felt by someone who is unable to access the internet
  • dispensationalism — the interpreting of history as a series of divine dispensations.
  • disposable income — the part of a person's income remaining after deducting personal income taxes.
  • dna amplification — an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
  • domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
  • downward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
  • downwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • downwardly-mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • drilling platform — a structure, either fixed to the sea bed or mobile, which supports the machinery and equipment (the drilling rig), together with the stores, required for digging an offshore oil well
  • economic blockade — an embargo on trade with a country, esp one which prohibits receipt of exports from that country, with the intention of disrupting the country's economy
  • election campaign — efforts to promote party or candidate to voters
  • electrocardiogram — A record or display of a person’s heartbeat produced by electrocardiography.
  • electrochemically — In an electrochemical manner.
  • electromechanical — Of, relating to, or denoting a mechanical device that is electrically operated.
  • electromyographic — Using electromyography.
  • electroretinogram — A record of the electrical activity of the retina, used in medical diagnosis and research.
  • emotional baggage — burden of personal experience
  • emotional capital — When people refer to the emotional capital of a company, they mean all the psychological assets and resources of the company, such as how the employees feel about the company.
  • emotional cripple — someone who is unable to feel or show true emotion and so cannot form relationships with other people
  • empirical formula — a chemical formula indicating the proportion of each element present in a molecule
  • employee benefits — benefits, such as health insurance, pension payments, or childcare, given to employees in addition to their usual salary or wage
  • employee discount — When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount, they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
  • employer-provided — Employer-provided insurance is arranged or funded by the organization for which the policyholder works.
  • employment equity — a policy or programme designed to reserve jobs for people formerly disadvantaged under apartheid
  • employment office — any of a number of government offices established to collect and supply to the unemployed information about job vacancies and to employers information about availability of prospective workers
  • encephalomyelitic — Relating to encephalomyelitis.
  • encephalomyelitis — Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically due to acute viral infection.
  • enrolment figures — the numbers of people enrolling at an institution, on a course, etc
  • environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
  • epidemiologically — With regard to epidemiology.
  • epistemologically — In a manner that pertains to epistemology.
  • ethnomusicologist — A researcher in the field of ethnomusicology.
  • exclamation point — exclamation mark
  • exfoliating cream — a granular cosmetic preparation that removes dead cells from the skin's surface
  • explosive forming — a rapid method of forming a metal object in which components are made by subjecting the metal to very high pressures generated by a controlled explosion
  • eyelet embroidery — a piece of embroidery decorated with such work
  • facsimile catalog — a catalog that includes small reproductions of the items listed, as paintings, slides, designs, or the like.
  • fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape
  • ferroelectric ram — Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
  • fifth normal form — database normalisation
  • first normal form — database normalisation
  • formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
  • fractal dimension — (mathematics)   A common type of fractal dimension is the Hausdorff-Besicovich Dimension, but there are several different ways of computing fractal dimension. Fractal dimension can be calculated by taking the limit of the quotient of the log change in object size and the log change in measurement scale, as the measurement scale approaches zero. The differences come in what is exactly meant by "object size" and what is meant by "measurement scale" and how to get an average number out of many different parts of a geometrical object. Fractal dimensions quantify the static *geometry* of an object. For example, consider a straight line. Now blow up the line by a factor of two. The line is now twice as long as before. Log 2 / Log 2 = 1, corresponding to dimension 1. Consider a square. Now blow up the square by a factor of two. The square is now 4 times as large as before (i.e. 4 original squares can be placed on the original square). Log 4 / log 2 = 2, corresponding to dimension 2 for the square. Consider a snowflake curve formed by repeatedly replacing ___ with _/\_, where each of the 4 new lines is 1/3 the length of the old line. Blowing up the snowflake curve by a factor of 3 results in a snowflake curve 4 times as large (one of the old snowflake curves can be placed on each of the 4 segments _/\_). Log 4 / log 3 = 1.261... Since the dimension 1.261 is larger than the dimension 1 of the lines making up the curve, the snowflake curve is a fractal. [sci.fractals FAQ].
  • french somaliland — a former name of Djibouti (def 1).
  • full-motion video — (video)   (FMV) Any kind of video that is theoretically capable of changing the entire content on the screen fast enough that the transitions are not obvious to the human eye, i.e. about 24 times a second or more. In practise most video encoding relies on the fact that in most video there is relatively little change from one frame to the next. This allows for compression of the video data. The term is used, chiefly in computer games, in contrast to techniques such as the use of sprites that move against a more-or-less fixed background.
  • function complete — (programming)   State of a software component or system such that each function described by the software's functional specification can be reached by at least one functional path, and attempts to operate as specified.
  • functional isomer — any of several structural isomers that have the same molecular formula but with the atoms connected in different ways and therefore falling into different functional groups.
  • garlic mayonnaise — mayonnaise flavoured with garlic
  • general admission — an admission charge for unreserved seats at a theatrical performance, sports event, etc.
  • general sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
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