18-letter words containing m, a, n, s, l, u
- malicious wounding — the intentional violent wounding or injuring of someone
- malpighian tubules — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- melville peninsula — a peninsula in N Canada, SE of the Gulf of Boothia. 250 miles (405 km) long.
- microencapsulation — the process of enclosing chemical substances in microcapsules.
- mineral supplement — a pill containing minerals that you take to improve your health
- molecular genetics — a subdivision of genetics concerned with the structure and function of genes at the molecular level.
- mount saint helens — a city in Merseyside, in NW England, near Liverpool.
- multicast backbone — (MBONE) A virtual network on top of the Internet which supports routing of IP multicast packets, intended for multimedia transmission. MBONE gives public access desktop video communications. The quality is poor with only 3-5 frames per second instead of the 30 frames per second of commercial television. Its advantage is that it avoids all telecommunications costs normally associated with teleconferencing. An interesting innovation is the use of MBONE for audio communications and an electronic "whiteboard" where the computer screen becomes a shared workspace where two physically remote parties can draw on and edit shared documents in real-time.
- musical instrument — music
- national guardsman — guardsman (def 2).
- nocturnal emission — the release of semen during sleep, often during a sexual dream.
- non-circumstantial — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
- non-fundamentalist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- nonstriated muscle — smooth muscle
- numerical analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with methods for obtaining approximate numerical solutions of mathematical problems.
- oil of catechumens — holy oil used in baptism, the ordination of a cleric, the coronation of a sovereign, or in the consecration of a church.
- passing modulation — a modulation of a temporary nature.
- payment by results — a system of wage payment whereby all or part of the wage varies systematically according to the level of work performance of an employee
- play cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- plumber's merchant — a shop or business that sells things needed for the job of installing and repairing pipes, fixtures, etc, for water, drainage, and gas
- 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.
- publishing company — a firm which publishes books
- pulmonary embolism — the blockage of a pulmonary artery, often by a blood clot, that stops the flow of blood to the lungs and which can result in death if untreated
- pulmonic airstream — a current of lung air set in motion by the respiratory muscles in the production of speech.
- repayment schedule — a document detailing the specific terms of a borrower's loan, such as monthly payment, interest rate, due dates etc
- residual magnetism — remanence.
- run in sb's family — If a characteristic runs in someone's family, it often occurs in members of that family, in different generations.
- sampling equipment — Sampling equipment is equipment which is used to remove small amounts of something for analysis and monitoring.
- sampling frequency — sample rate
- sault sainte marie — the rapids of the St. Marys River, between NE Michigan and Ontario, Canada.
- sell someone a pup — to swindle someone by selling him something worthless
- semicircular canal — any of the three curved tubular canals in the labyrinth of the ear, associated with the sense of equilibrium.
- simple enumeration — a procedure for arriving at empirical generalizations by haphazard accumulation of positive instances.
- small outline dimm — (storage) (SO-DIMM) A smaller kind of DIMM with 72 pins (supporting 32-bit transfers) or 144 pins (64-bit transfers). Regular DIMMs have 168 pins and support 64-bit transfers. Being roughly half the size of the regular DIMM, SO-DIMMs are often used in notebook computers.
- southampton island — an island in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories at the entrance to Hudson Bay. 19,100 sq. mi. (49,470 sq. km).
- spackling compound — spackle
- stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
- subliminal message — a message passed to the human mind without the mind being consciously aware of it, as, for example, in advertising
- submaxillary gland — submandibular gland.
- sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
- super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
- survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
- telecommunications — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
- temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
- the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
- up someone's alley — suited to someone's tastes or abilities
- wrangell mountains — a mountain range in SE Alaska, extending into the Yukon, Canada. Highest peak: Mount Blackburn, 5037 m (16 523 ft)
- wrongful dismissal — the act of making someone redundant for reasons which are illegal or unjust