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16-letter words containing m, a, s, n, u

  • pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
  • phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
  • pocono mountains — ridge of the Appalachians, in E Pa.: resort area: c. 2,000 ft (610 m) high
  • primary consumer — (in the food chain) an animal that feeds on plants; a herbivore.
  • primary industry — an industry, as agriculture, forestry, or fishing, that deals in obtaining natural materials.
  • print journalism — journalism as practiced in newspapers and magazines.
  • pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • pulse modulation — a type of modulation in which a train of pulses is used as the carrier wave, one or more of its parameters, such as amplitude, being modulated or modified in order to carry information
  • punctuationalism — punctuated equilibrium.
  • punitive damages — law: penalty payment
  • put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
  • quantum sufficit — as much as suffices; enough.
  • quasi-managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
  • queen's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • radioimmunoassay — a test procedure that integrates immunologic and radiolabeling techniques to measure minute quantities of a substance, as a protein, hormone, or drug, in a given sample of body fluid or tissue.
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • research quantum — the standard by which the contribution to a university of individual academics is measured and on the basis of which universities receive government funding and academics are promoted
  • rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • root mean square — the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of the numbers in a given set of numbers. Abbreviation: rms.
  • saint-ulmo-light — St. Elmo's fire.
  • sales automation — Sales Force Automation
  • sauce americaine — a sauce prepared with tomatoes, garlic, wine, shallots, and herbs. See also à l’américaine.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
  • security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • self-sustainment — self-supporting.
  • semantic tableau — a method of demonstrating the consistency or otherwise of a set of statements by constructing a diagrammatic representation of all the circumstances that satisfy the set of statements
  • semi-mountainous — abounding in mountains: a mountainous wilderness.
  • semiquantitative — partially quantitative.
  • semisubterranean — half below the surface of the ground: the semisubterranean houses of some Indian tribes.
  • session musician — a studio musician, esp one who works freelance
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • sinus meridianii — an area on the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • situation comedy — a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • snoqualmie falls — falls of the Snoqualmie River, in W Washington. 270 feet (82 meters) high.
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • somatic mutation — a mutation occurring in a somatic cell, resulting in a change in the morphology or some other aspect of one part of an organism (usually a plant). It may be maintained by vegetative propagation but not by sexual reproduction
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • south vietnamese — of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants
  • speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
  • spring mountains — a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • start-up company — new business
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • studio apartment — an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Compare efficiency apartment.
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