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17-letter words containing m, a, i, n, y, r

  • national cemetery — a cemetery, maintained by the U.S. government, for persons who have served honorably in the armed forces.
  • nephelometrically — By means of nephelometry.
  • nondiscriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • nuclear chemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with nuclear reactions
  • one-parent family — A one-parent family is a family that consists of one parent and his or her children living together.
  • optical astronomy — the branch of observational astronomy using telescopes to observe or photograph celestial objects in visible light.
  • organic chemistry — the branch of chemistry, originally limited to substances found only in living organisms, dealing with the compounds of carbon.
  • oyer and terminer — (in some U.S. states) any of various higher criminal courts.
  • parliamentary law — the body of rules, usages, and precedents that governs proceedings of legislative and deliberative assemblies.
  • phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
  • primary dentition — the deciduous dentition
  • primary education — junior, elementary schooling
  • primary intention — Logic. See under intention (def 5a).
  • primary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • professional army — an army of trained soldiers
  • purely and simply — You use purely and simply to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the only thing involved.
  • quantum chemistry — the application of quantum mechanics to the study of chemical phenomena.
  • recursive acronym — (convention)   A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
  • role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
  • safety in numbers — If you say that there is safety in numbers, you mean that you are safer doing something if there are a lot of people doing it rather than doing it alone.
  • semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
  • spectrum analysis — the determination of the constitution or condition of bodies and substances by means of the spectra they produce.
  • spiny-headed worm — any of a small group of endoparasites of the phylum Acanthocephala, as larvae parasitic in insects and crustaceans and as adults in various vertebrates.
  • statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
  • stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
  • synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
  • terminal capacity — The terminal capacity is the volume which can be stored in a terminal (= building or area with tanks).
  • terminal velocity — Physics. the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity. the maximum velocity of a body falling through a viscous fluid.
  • tertiary consumer — a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.
  • tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
  • tympanic membrane — eardrum.
  • unconformity trap — An unconformity trap is a hydrocarbon trap where the closure is made by an unconformity (= a formation of rock layers which represents a gap in the geological record).
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • westminster abbey — a Gothic church in London, England.
  • williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties
  • 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
  • youth programming — the creation and scheduling of television programmes specifically aimed at young people
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