17-letter words containing m, a, r, y, l, n
- literacy campaign — a campaign designed to reduce illiteracy and promote literacy in a country, area, etc
- lymphangiographic — Relating to lymphangiography.
- lyon king of arms — the chief herald of Scotland
- macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
- magellan barberry — an evergreen shrub, Berberis buxifolia, of southern Chile, having prickle-tipped leaves, dark-purple fruit, and orange-yellow flowers, rarely flowering in cultivation.
- mains electricity — electricity supplied to a building through wires
- manual typewriter — a keyboard machine, operated entirely by hand, for writing mechanically in characters resembling print
- manufacturability — The condition of being manufacturable.
- mentally impaired — with reduced or weakened mental capacity
- mercantile agency — commercial agency.
- mercantile system — a system of political and economic policy, evolving with the modern national state and seeking to secure a nation's political and economic supremacy in its rivalry with other states. According to this system, money was regarded as a store of wealth, and the goal of a state was the accumulation of precious metals, by exporting the largest possible quantity of its products and importing as little as possible, thus establishing a favorable balance of trade.
- methyltransferase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of methyl groups from one molecule to another.
- microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
- micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
- military covenant — the supposed understanding that members of the armed forces and their families will be supported by the state in the event of injury or death in the course of duty
- military governor — the military officer in command of a military government.
- military training — drilling in army discipline and techniques
- miss lonelyhearts — a novel (1933) by Nathanael West.
- monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
- monochromatically — of or having one color.
- monte carlo rally — an annual car rally the destination of which is Monte Carlo
- more than usually — You use more than usually to show that something shows even more of a particular quality than it normally does.
- motorcycle racing — sport: competing on motorcycles
- mullerian mimicry — the resemblance in appearance of two or more unpalatable species, which are avoided by predators to a greater degree than any one of the species would be otherwise.
- 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.
- multidisciplinary — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
- mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
- national cemetery — a cemetery, maintained by the U.S. government, for persons who have served honorably in the armed forces.
- nephelometrically — By means of nephelometry.
- neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
- nuclear chemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with nuclear reactions
- one-parent family — A one-parent family is a family that consists of one parent and his or her children living together.
- optical astronomy — the branch of observational astronomy using telescopes to observe or photograph celestial objects in visible light.
- parliamentary law — the body of rules, usages, and precedents that governs proceedings of legislative and deliberative assemblies.
- pastoral symphony — the Symphony No. 6 in F major (1807–08) by Ludwig van Beethoven.
- paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
- phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
- polymorphonuclear — (of a leukocyte) having a lobulate nucleus.
- professional army — an army of trained soldiers
- purely and simply — You use purely and simply to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the only thing involved.
- role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
- semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
- 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.
- stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
- synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
- terminal capacity — The terminal capacity is the volume which can be stored in a terminal (= building or area with tanks).
- terminal velocity — Physics. the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity. the maximum velocity of a body falling through a viscous fluid.
- tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
- unemployment rate — percentage of population without jobs