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17-letter words containing m, a, n, u, r

  • compound fracture — A compound fracture is a fracture in which the broken bone sticks through the skin.
  • compound interval — an interval that is greater than an octave, as a ninth or a thirteenth.
  • computer language — programming language
  • computer terminal — a keyboard and computer monitor connected to a computer
  • consequent stream — a stream the course of which was determined by the original slope of the land.
  • consumer advocate — consumerist (def 1).
  • consumer research — business: investigation of behaviors
  • consumer sampling — a research technique in which targeted consumers are polled or tested for their receptiveness to a product or service
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • consumer-advocate — Also called consumer advocate. a person who is dedicated to protecting and promoting the welfare and rights of consumers.
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • corpus cavernosum — either of two masses of erectile tissue in the penis of mammals
  • counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
  • counter-migration — a migration in the opposite direction.
  • country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
  • cruciate ligament — A cruciate ligament is either of a pair of ligaments that cross at the knee.
  • customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
  • d&o insurance — D&O insurance is a personal liability insurance that provides cover to the directors and senior executives of a company.
  • denominate number — a number associated with a unit of measurement.
  • document examiner — (hypertext, tool)   A high-performance hypertext system by Symbolics that provides on-line access to their user documentation.
  • dynamic insurance — Dynamic insurance is a type of insurance coverage where the policyholder can choose to increase benefits and premiums by a fixed percentage each year to offset the effects of inflation.
  • farming community — a community where farming is the main industry
  • fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
  • four-part harmony — harmony in which each chord has four tones, creating, in sum, four melodic lines.
  • fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
  • freedmen's bureau — an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.
  • 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.
  • gastrojejunostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
  • germanicus caesar — 15 b.c.–a.d. 19, Roman general.
  • great namaqualand — an arid coastal region in the S part of Namibia, extending into the Cape of Good Hope province of the Republic of South Africa, divided by the Orange River into two regions, one in Namibia (Great Namaqualand) the other in South Africa (Little Namaqualand) inhabited by the Nama.
  • guardian ad litem — a person appointed by a court as guardian of an infant or other person to act on his or her behalf in a particular action or proceeding.
  • guglielmo marconi — Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
  • gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
  • heimlich maneuver — an emergency rescue procedure for application to someone choking on a foreign object, in which the rescuer places a fist between the victim's lower ribs or upper abdomen from behind and exerts sudden pressure in the form of thrusts of sufficient force to help eject the object from the windpipe.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • human engineering — an applied science that coordinates the design of devices, systems, and physical working conditions with the capacities and requirements of the worker.
  • human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
  • immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
  • immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
  • in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
  • incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
  • instrumentalities — Plural form of instrumentality.
  • insulin treatment — treatment of diabetes with insulin
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • insurance premium — payment on an insurance policy
  • 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.
  • intercommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of intercommunicate.
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