17-letter words containing m, a, l, n, u, t
- haemagglutination — Alternative form of hemagglutination.
- homeland security — national defence
- imitation doublet — a doublet formed entirely of glass.
- income inequality — a situation in which there is great disparity in income within a society
- incommunicability — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
- incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
- instrumentalities — Plural form of instrumentality.
- insulin treatment — treatment of diabetes with insulin
- insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- intercolumniation — the space between two adjacent columns, usually the clear space between the lower parts of the shafts.
- irrational number — a number that cannot be exactly expressed as a ratio of two integers.
- ladder tournament — a tournament in which the entrants are listed by name and rank, advancement being by means of challenging and defeating an entrant ranked one or two places higher.
- langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
- latent strabismus — the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.
- latitudinarianism — Tolerance of other people's views, particularly in religious context.
- laurent's theorem — the theorem that a function that is analytic on an annulus can be represented by a Laurent series on the annulus.
- lautenclavicymbal — a harpsichord with strings of gut rather than metal.
- lebanon mountains — a mountain range extending the length of Lebanon, in the central part. Highest peak, 10,049 feet (3063 meters).
- leibniz mountains — a mountain range on the SW limb of the moon, containing the highest peaks (10 000 metres) on the moon
- light machine gun — any air-cooled machine gun having a caliber not greater than 0.30 inches (7.6 mm).
- lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
- luminous exitance — the ability of a surface to emit light expressed as the luminous flux per unit area at a specified point on the surface
- lumpenproletariat — the lowest level of the proletariat comprising unskilled workers, vagrants, and criminals and characterized by a lack of class identification and solidarity.
- macfarlane burnet — Sir (Frank) Macfarlane [muh k-fahr-luh n] /məkˈfɑr lən/ (Show IPA), 1899–1985, Australian physician: Nobel Prize in Physiology 1960.
- macro-linguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
- macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
- magnesium sulfate — a white, water-soluble salt, MgSO 4 , used chiefly in medicine and in the processing of leather and textiles.
- manganese sulfate — a pink, water-soluble, usually tetrahydrate salt, MnSO 4 ⋅4H 2 O, used chiefly in fertilizers, paints, and varnishes.
- manitoulin island — an island in N Lake Huron belonging to Canada. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- manual typewriter — a keyboard machine, operated entirely by hand, for writing mechanically in characters resembling print
- manufacturability — The condition of being manufacturable.
- maxwell equations — equations developed by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–79) upon which classical electromagnetic theory is based
- mechanical tissue — a plant tissue made up of hard, thick-walled cells that add strength to an organ
- medulla oblongata — the lowest or hindmost part of the brain, continuous with the spinal cord.
- mensural notation — a system of musical notation of the 13th to the late 16th centuries, marked by the use of note symbols such as the longa and brevis, the absence of bar lines and ties, and the equivalence in value of one note to either two or three of the next smaller degree.
- metallofullerenes — Plural form of metallofullerene.
- microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
- microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
- micromanipulation — the technique of performing mechanical operations under high magnification through the use of specialized tools.
- micromanipulators — Plural form of micromanipulator.
- minimal automaton — (theory) An automaton possessing with redundant states.
- misunderstandable — Capable of being misunderstood.
- monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
- monumentalization — to establish an enduring memorial or record of.
- more than usually — You use more than usually to show that something shows even more of a particular quality than it normally does.
- mounted policeman — policemen who patrol on horseback
- multi-directional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- multi-millionaire — a person who possesses a fortune that amounts to many millions of dollars, francs, etc.
- multi-nationalism — a large corporation with operations and subsidiaries in several countries.
- multicollinearity — (statistics) A phenomenon in which two or more predictor variables in a multiple regression model are highly correlated, so that the coefficient estimates may change erratically in response to small changes in the model or data.