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17-letter words containing m, a, t, c, h

  • maintained school — a school financially supported by the state
  • manchester school — a school of economists in England in the first half of the 19th century, devoted to free trade and the repeal of the Corn Law, led by Richard Cobden and John Bright.
  • manhattan project — U.S. History. the unofficial designation for the U.S. War Department's secret program, organized in 1942, to explore the isolation of radioactive isotopes and the production of an atomic bomb: initial research was conducted at Columbia University in Manhattan.
  • manufactured home — a prefabricated house, assembled in modular sections.
  • margaret thatcher — Margaret (Hilda) 1925–2013, British political leader: prime minister 1979–90.
  • market researcher — a person who carries out market research
  • mass spectrograph — a mass spectroscope for recording a mass spectrum on a photographic plate.
  • massachusetts bay — an inlet of the Atlantic, off the E coast of Massachusetts.
  • mechanical tissue — a plant tissue made up of hard, thick-walled cells that add strength to an organ
  • mechanoelectrical — Describing the production of electricity by mechanical motion; especially in a transducer.
  • memetic algorithm — (algorithm)   A genetic algorithm or evolutionary algorithm which includes a non-genetic local search to improve genotypes. The term comes from the Richard Dawkin's term "meme". One big difference between memes and genes is that memes are processed and possibly improved by the people that hold them - something that cannot happen to genes. It is this advantage that the memetic algorithm has over simple genetic or evolutionary algorithms. These algorithms are useful in solving complex problems, such as the "Travelling Salesman Problem," which involves finding the shortest path through a large number of nodes, or in creating artificial life to test evolutionary theories. Memetic algorithms are one kind of metaheuristic. (07 July 1997)
  • mental arithmetic — sums done in your head
  • merchant of death — a company, nation, or person that sells military arms on the international market, usually to the highest bidder and without scruple or regard for political ramifications.
  • merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
  • message switching — store and forward
  • metabolic pathway — biochemistry: sequence of reactions within a cell or organism
  • method invocation — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, the way the program looks up the right code to run when a method with a given name is called ("invoked") on an object. The method is first looked for in the object's class, then that class's superclass and so on up the class hierarchy until a method with the given name is found (the name is "resolved"). Generally, method lookup cannot be performed at compile time because the object's class is not known until run time. This is the case for an object method whereas a class method is just an ordinary function (that is bundled with a given class) and can be resolved at compile time (or load time in the case of a dynamically loaded library).
  • methyl isocyanate — Chemistry. a highly toxic, flammable, colorless liquid, CH 3 NCO, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of pesticides: in 1984, the accidental release of a cloud of this gas in Bhopal, India, killed more than 1700 people and injured over 200,000.
  • methyl salicylate — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 8 H 8 O 3 , produced synthetically or by maceration and subsequent distillation from birch or gaultheria: used chiefly in perfumery and flavoring, and in medicine as a counterirritant in external preparations.
  • methylacetic acid — propionic acid.
  • mexican hat dance — a dance performed by couples, consisting of eight measures during which the dancers kick out each foot alternately, followed by eight more measures during which they swing around with interlocking arms.
  • microphanerophyte — any shrub or tree having a height of 2 to 8 metres
  • microphotographic — Relating to microphotography.
  • mischaracterizing — Present participle of mischaracterize.
  • mitochondrial dna — DNA found in mitochondria, which contains some structural genes and is generally inherited only through the female line
  • modulo arithmetic — modular arithmetic
  • 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.
  • monolith catalyst — A monolith catalyst is a type of catalyst whose surface is flat.
  • mont-saint-michel — a rocky islet near the coast of NW France, in an inlet of the Gulf of St. Malo: famous abbey and fortress.
  • mountain viscacha — the mountain chinchilla
  • mystical theology — the branch of theology dealing with mysticism and mystical experiences.
  • nakhon ratchasima — a city in central Thailand.
  • natural harmonics — harmonics of a note produced on a stringed instrument by lightly touching an open or unstopped sounded string.
  • neo-scholasticism — a contemporary application of Scholasticism to modern problems and life.
  • nephelometrically — By means of nephelometry.
  • ninth commandment — “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”: ninth of the Ten Commandments.
  • non-thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • nonaccomplishment — Something that does not achieve the intended goal.
  • north miami beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • northcountrywoman — a female native or inhabitant of the North of England
  • northern michigan — the peninsula between lakes Superior and Michigan constituting the N part of Michigan. Abbreviation: U.P.
  • nuclear chemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with nuclear reactions
  • omphalomesenteric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery.
  • organic chemistry — the branch of chemistry, originally limited to substances found only in living organisms, dealing with the compounds of carbon.
  • overhead camshaft — a camshaft in an automotive engine that is located in the cylinder head over the engine block rather than in the block. Abbreviation: OHC.
  • paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
  • parachute payment — a payment made to alleviate hardship resulting from a sudden loss of income
  • parathyroidectomy — the excision of a parathyroid gland.
  • pashmina politics — the adoption of political policies immediately after they have gone out of fashion
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