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17-letter words containing m, a, s

  • anthropomorphosis — transformation into human form
  • anthroposemiotics — The study of human communication.
  • anti-assimilation — Sociology. the merging of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups, not involving biological amalgamation.
  • anti-conservatism — the disposition to preserve or restore what is established and traditional and to limit change.
  • anti-isolationism — the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.
  • anti-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • anti-monopolistic — a person who has a monopoly.
  • antiestablishment — opposed to or working against the existing power structure or mores, as of society or government: Antiestablishment candidates promised to disband the army, Congress, and the cabinet if elected.
  • antimaterialistic — Opposing materialism.
  • antimiscegenation — (US) against mixing or blending; especially, against the mixing or blending of races in marriage or breeding.
  • antivirus program — antivirus software
  • archimedes' screw — an ancient type of water-lifting device making use of a spiral passage in an inclined cylinder. The water is raised when the spiral is rotated
  • argumentativeness — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
  • arithmetic-series — a sequence in which each term is obtained by the addition of a constant number to the preceding term, as 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, and 6, 1, −4, −9, −14.
  • armaments factory — a factory for producing armaments
  • armchair shopping — buying goods using a computer, telephone, or television in the home or via the postal system
  • asperger syndrome — a developmental disorder characterized by severely impaired social skills, repetitive behaviors, and often, a narrow set of interests, but not involving delayed development of linguistic and cognitive abilities: now considered one of the autism spectrum disorders.
  • assemblies of god — the largest American Pentecostal denomination, formed in 1914 by the merger of various Pentecostal churches and marked by faith healing and speaking in tongues.
  • assembly district — one of a fixed number of districts into which a state is divided, each district electing one member to the lower house of the state legislature.
  • assembly language — a low-level programming language that allows a programmer complete control of the machine code to be generated
  • assessable income — the portion of one's income that is subject to tax
  • assessment centre — a set of selection procedures designed to recruit the best candidate or candidates to fill a job vacancy; it usually takes place over a day or two and is run by specialist staff
  • assessment method — a way of assessing something or someone
  • assistant manager — a person who assists a manager in their work
  • astronomical unit — a unit of distance used in astronomy equal to the mean distance between the earth and the sun. 1 astronomical unit is equivalent to 1.495 × 1011 metres or about 9.3 × 107 miles
  • astronomical year — year (def 4b).
  • asymmetrical bars — a set of parallel bars, having one bar fixed at 230 cm (7 ft, 6 in) and the other at 150 cm (4 ft, 11 in), used by women gymnasts
  • at someone's feet — as someone's disciple
  • at someone's hand — from
  • aurea mediocritas — the golden mean.
  • automated testing — (testing)   Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation.
  • autonomous syntax — an approach of generative grammar in which the syntactic component of a grammar is viewed as existing or operating independently of the semantic component and abstract syntactic representation is not equivalent to semantic representation.
  • autonomous system — (networking, routing)   (AS) A collection of routers under a single administrative authority, using a common Interior Gateway Protocol for routing packets.
  • average seek time — (storage)   The mean time it takes to move the head of a disk drive from one track to another, averaged over the source and destination cylinders. Usually measured in milliseconds (ms). The average seek time gives a good measure of the speed of the drive in a multi-user environment where successive read/write request are largely uncorrelated. Ten ms is common for a hard disk and 200 ms for an eight-speed CD-ROM.
  • avogadro's number — the constant, 6.022 × 10 23 , representing the number of atoms, molecules, or ions in one mole of a substance. Symbol: N. Compare gram-atom, gram molecule.
  • babi yar symphony — a symphony (1962) by Dimitri Dimitrievich Shostakovich.
  • baby-doll pyjamas — frilly pyjamas with short pants and no sleeves
  • ballistic missile — a missile that has no wings or fins and that follows a ballistic trajectory when its propulsive power is discontinued
  • barmecide (feast) — a pretended feast with no food
  • basement membrane — a thin, extracellular membrane underlying epithelial tissue.
  • bathroom fittings — plumbing fixtures or accessories suitable for use in a bathroom
  • be that as it may — You say 'Be that as it may' when you want to move onto another subject or go further with the discussion, without deciding whether what has just been said is right or wrong.
  • benjamin-constant — Henri Benjamin [ahn-ree ban-zha-man] /ɑ̃ˈri bɛ̃ ʒaˈmɛ̃/ (Show IPA), (Benjamin Constant) 1767–1830, French statesman and author, born in Switzerland.
  • beyond comparison — outstanding, without equal
  • bighorn mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains in N Wyo. and S Mont.: highest peak, 13,165 ft (4,013 m)
  • binet-simon scale — a test comprising questions and tasks, used to determine the mental age of subjects, usually children
  • biotransformation — the metabolizing of some substance, esp. a drug, in the body
  • bitmapped display — bitmap display
  • black nationalism — a movement advocating the establishment of a separate black nation within the U.S.
  • blank endorsement — an endorsement on a bill of exchange, cheque, etc, naming no payee and thus making the endorsed sum payable to the bearer
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