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17-letter words containing m, a, n, c, u, s

  • macro-linguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macroinstructions — Plural form of macroinstruction.
  • magellanic clouds — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
  • management course — a course provided by an educational establishment such as a university, which teaches skills concerning the management of a company, business, etc
  • manicure scissors — scissors for manicuring or trimming the nails
  • manifest function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is planned and intentional.
  • mare fecunditatis — (Sea of Fertility) a dark plain in the fourth quadrant and extending into the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 160,000 sq. mi. (415,000 sq. km).
  • masculine caesura — a caesura occurring immediately after a stressed or a long syllable.
  • maurice of nassau — Prince of Orange 1567-1625; Du. statesman & military leader
  • mechanical tissue — a plant tissue made up of hard, thick-walled cells that add strength to an organ
  • media access unit — (networking)   (MAU or Multistation Access Unit, MSAU) In a Token Ring network, a device to attach multiple network stations in a star topology, internally wired to connect the stations into a logical ring. The MAU contains relays to short out nonoperating stations. Multiple MAUs can be connected into a larger ring through their Ring In/Ring Out connectors.
  • medical insurance — a type of insurance intended to cover possible future medical expenses
  • metatungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H2W4O13
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • micromanipulators — Plural form of micromanipulator.
  • miscellaneousness — Quality of being miscellaneous.
  • miscommunications — Plural form of miscommunication.
  • monkeygland sauce — a piquant sauce, made from tomatoes, ketchup, fruit chutney, garlic, spices, etc
  • mountain sickness — illness caused by being at high altitude
  • mountain viscacha — the mountain chinchilla
  • multidisciplinary — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
  • munitions factory — a factory where munitions are made
  • muscae volitantes — floater (def 6).
  • musical interlude — an interval in a play, event or occasion during which music is played
  • mustard and cress — Mustard and cress is very young mustard plants and cress plants grown together and eaten in salad.
  • nasolacrimal duct — a membranous canal extending from the lacrimal sac to the nasal cavity, through which tears are discharged into the nose.
  • natural harmonics — harmonics of a note produced on a stringed instrument by lightly touching an open or unstopped sounded string.
  • nuclear chemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with nuclear reactions
  • nuclear isomerism — isomerism (def 2).
  • nuclear submarine — undersea vessel powered by atomic energy
  • nuclear-isomerism — Chemistry. the relation of two or more compounds, radicals, or ions that are composed of the same kinds and numbers of atoms but differ from each other in structural arrangement (structural isomerism) as CH 3 OCH 3 and CH 3 CH 2 OH, or in the arrangement of their atoms in space and therefore in one or more properties. Compare optical isomerism, stereoisomerism.
  • olympic mountains — a mountain range in NW Washington: part of the Coast Range. Highest peak: Mount Olympus, 2427 m (7965 ft)
  • olympic peninsula — a large peninsula of W Washington
  • performance bonus — a monetary bonus paid to staff who have performed well in their job
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • pernicious anemia — Pernicious anemia is a very severe blood disease.
  • personal computer — a compact computer that uses a microprocessor and is designed for individual use, as by a person in an office or at home or school, for such applications as word processing, data management, financial analysis, or computer games. Abbreviation: PC.
  • physical pendulum — any apparatus consisting of a body of possibly irregular shape allowed to rotate freely about a horizontal axis on which it is pivoted (distinguished from simple pendulum).
  • picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
  • ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
  • potassium cyanide — a white, granular, water-soluble, poisonous powder, KCN, having a faint almondlike odor, used chiefly in metallurgy and photography.
  • pseudo-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • quantum chemistry — the application of quantum mechanics to the study of chemical phenomena.
  • quantum mechanics — a theory of the mechanics of atoms, molecules, and other physical systems that are subject to the uncertainty principle. Abbreviation: QM.
  • radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
  • recursion formula — a formula for determining the next term of a sequence from one or more of the preceding terms.
  • 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.
  • sanctimoniousness — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
  • sanctum sanctorum — the holy of holies of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem.
  • sandwich compound — any of a class of organometallic compounds whose molecules have a metal atom or ion bound between two plane parallel organic rings
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