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

  • potassium nitrate — a crystalline compound, KNO 3 , produced by nitrification in soil, and used in gunpowders, fertilizers, and preservatives; saltpeter; niter.
  • pre-communication — the act or process of communicating; fact of being communicated.
  • premiere danseuse — the leading female dancer in a ballet company.
  • primary education — junior, elementary schooling
  • product placement — Product placement is a form of advertising in which a company has its product placed where it can be clearly seen during a film or television programme.
  • programming fluid — (jargon)   (Or "wirewater") Coffee, unleaded coffee (decaffeinated), Cola, or any caffeinacious stimulant. Many hackers consider these essential for those all-night hacking runs.
  • purely and simply — You use purely and simply to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the only thing involved.
  • put a dampener on — To put a dampener on something means the same as to put a damper on it.
  • put on the market — offer for sale
  • quantum cell wire — (electronics, computing)   (Or "quantum wire", "binary wire") Quantum cells arranged in a line to carry signals. Adjacent cells with the same orientation are at a low energy state and a change of orientation at one end of a quantum wire propagates along the wire, transmitting a signal. However, unlike conventional wire, since only the orientation of charge pairs changes, no current flows. Circuits created using quantum cell wires are referred to as Quantum-dot Wireless Digital Circuits, see quantum dot, Quantum-dot Cellular Automata.
  • quantum chemistry — the application of quantum mechanics to the study of chemical phenomena.
  • quasiexperimental — (medicine) Describing a trial in which the assignment to a group is based upon an experimental condition.
  • radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
  • recurring decimal — Mathematics. repeating decimal.
  • 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.
  • reduction formula — a formula, such as sin (90° ± A) = cos A, expressing the values of a trigonometric function of any angle greater than 90° in terms of a function of an acute angle
  • replacement value — insurance: sum required to replace sth
  • rhodope mountains — a mountain range in SE Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula extending along the border between Bulgaria and Greece. Highest peak: Golyam Perelik (Bulgaria), 2191 m (7188 ft)
  • ring-tailed lemur — a Madagascan prosimian primate, Lemur catta, with a long black and white ringed tail
  • rom kernel manual — (publication)   (RKM) A series of books or files for developers for the Amiga computer, containing information about the operating system kernel stored in ROM.
  • rubberman disease — Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
  • run a temperature — If you are running a temperature or if you have a temperature, your temperature is higher than it usually is.
  • rural development — social or economic activities or initiatives designed to improve the standard of living in areas far away from large towns or cities
  • 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.
  • samurai tradition — the body of customs, thought, practices, etc belonging to the samurai warrior caste of Japan
  • sanctum sanctorum — the holy of holies of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem.
  • sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
  • selkirk mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Sandford, 3533 m (11 590 ft)
  • semi-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • sexual harassment — unwelcome sexual advances made by an employer or superior, especially when compliance is made a condition of continued employment or advancement.
  • silk manufacturer — a person or business that is involved in the manufacture of silk thread and fabric
  • sodium propionate — a transparent, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 3 H 5 NaO 2 , used in foodstuffs to prevent mold growth, and in medicine as a fungicide.
  • sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • southampton water — an inlet of the English Channel in S England
  • spectrum analyser — an instrument that splits an input waveform into its frequency components, which are then displayed
  • spectrum analysis — the determination of the constitution or condition of bodies and substances by means of the spectra they produce.
  • sperrin mountains — a mountain range in NW Northern Ireland
  • square centimeter — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one centimeter on each side. 2 , sq. cm. Abbreviation: cm.
  • squeegee merchant — a person who attempts to make money by squeegeeing the windscreens of cars that are stopped at traffic lights and then asking for payment
  • statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
  • storm in a teacup — a violent fuss or disturbance over a trivial matter
  • sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
  • super-nationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
  • superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
  • superalimentation — nourishment; nutrition.
  • supercolumniation — the placing of one order of columns above another.
  • supernova remnant — an expanding shell of gas, with accompanying strong radio and x-ray emissions, produced by a supernova.
  • support mechanism — any formal system or method of providing support or assistance
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