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17-letter words containing m, a, s, t, r

  • imperialistically — In an imperialistic manner.
  • impersonalization — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
  • impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
  • implosion therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
  • implosive-therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
  • impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
  • impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • improvisationally — In an improvisational way.
  • indeterminateness — The quality of being indeterminate.
  • instrumentalities — Plural form of instrumentality.
  • insulin treatment — treatment of diabetes with insulin
  • insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
  • intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
  • intermediate host — the host in which a parasite undergoes development but does not reach sexual maturity.
  • intersectionalism — The study of minorities within minorities, or intersections between minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination.
  • interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
  • investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
  • inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.
  • irrigation system — a system of supplying (land) with water by means of artificial canals, ditches, etc, esp to promote the growth of food crops
  • it doesn't matter — You say 'it doesn't matter' to tell someone who is apologizing to you that you are not angry or upset, and that they should not worry.
  • jerusalem cricket — a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper, Stenopelmatus fuscus, occuring chiefly in loose soil and sand along the Pacific coast of the U.S.
  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • klerer-may system — Early system from Columbia University with special mathematics symbols. Its reference manual was two pages long!
  • kvatro telecom as — (company)   The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
  • lagrange's method — a procedure for finding maximum and minimum values of a function of several variables when the variables are restricted by additional conditions.
  • lambdoidal suture — the lambda-shaped seam or line of joining between the occipital and two parietal bones at the back part of the skull.
  • lan administrator — (job)   A person who installs and maintains LAN hardware and software. A LAN administrator troubleshoots network usage and computer peripherals. He installs new users, performs system backups and data recovery, and resolves LAN communications problems.
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
  • latent strabismus — the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.
  • latitudinarianism — Tolerance of other people's views, particularly in religious context.
  • laurent's theorem — the theorem that a function that is analytic on an annulus can be represented by a Laurent series on the annulus.
  • letters of marque — a former government document authorizing an individual to make reprisals on the subjects of an enemy nation, specif. to arm a ship and capture enemy merchant ships and cargo
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
  • liberal democrats — (in Britain) a political party with centrist policies; established in 1988 as the Social and Liberal Democrats when the Liberal Party merged with the Social Democratic Party; renamed Liberal Democrats in 1989
  • linear assignment — assignment problem
  • macro-linguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macroinstructions — Plural form of macroinstruction.
  • magnetic roasting — roasting of a nonmagnetic ore to render it magnetic so that it can be separated from gangue by means of a magnetic field.
  • magnetoresistance — a change in the electrical resistance of a material upon exposure to a magnetic field.
  • mains electricity — electricity supplied to a building through wires
  • maintainer script — (Debian)   One of the scripts (preinst, prerm, postinst, postrm) that may be included in a Debian binary package. These scripts may create and/or remove symlinks, files or directories that, for some reason, could not be done directly by dpkg. Maintainer scripts frequently create or update the symlinks in the /etc/rc?.d directories and start, stop, or restart daemons.
  • majority decision — a decision supported by more than half the people involved
  • make conversation — If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
  • make inroads into — to start to use up the supply of something
  • make the worst of — to be pessimistic about
  • maladministration — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.
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