17-letter words containing m, a, t, i, p
- homeopathic magic — magic that attempts to control the universe through the mimicking of a desired event, as by stabbing an image of an enemy in an effort to destroy him or her or by performing a ritual dance imitative of the growth of food in an effort to secure an abundant supply; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that similar actions produce similar results.
- hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
- hyperalimentation — overfeeding.
- hyperpigmentation — coloration, especially of the skin.
- hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- iambic pentameter — a verse line consisting of five metrical iambs
- immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
- immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
- 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.
- improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
- improper integral — Also called infinite integral. a definite integral in which one or both of the limits of integration is infinite.
- improvement grant — a sum of money provided by a government, local authority, or public fund to finance the amelioration of a building, area of land, etc
- improvisationally — In an improvisational way.
- imputation system — a former taxation system in which some, or all, of the corporation tax on a company was treated as a tax credit on account of the income tax paid by its shareholders on their dividends; discontinued from 1999
- incandescent lamp — a lamp that emits light due to the glowing of a heated material, especially the common device in which a tungsten filament enclosed within an evacuated glass bulb is rendered luminous by the passage of an electric current through it.
- incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- independent axiom — in a set of axioms, one that cannot be proved by using the others in the set.
- inertial platform — self-contained navigational devices used in inertial guidance, along with their mounting.
- interdepartmental — involving or existing between two or more departments: interdepartmental rivalry.
- intradepartmental — Within a department.
- isthmus of panama — an isthmus linking North and South America, between the Pacific and the Caribbean. Length: 676 km (420 miles). Width (at its narrowest point): 50 km (31 miles)
- japanese clematis — a Japanese woody vine, Clematis paniculata, of the buttercup family, having dense clusters of fragrant, white flowers and plumed fruit.
- 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.
- lempert operation — fenestration (def 3c).
- liquid petrolatum — mineral oil.
- literacy campaign — a campaign designed to reduce illiteracy and promote literacy in a country, area, etc
- load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
- loco primo citato — loc. primo cit.
- lumpenproletariat — the lowest level of the proletariat comprising unskilled workers, vagrants, and criminals and characterized by a lack of class identification and solidarity.
- lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
- magnetic monopole — a hypothetical very heavy particle with an isolated magnetic north pole or magnetic south pole.
- 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.
- manual typewriter — a keyboard machine, operated entirely by hand, for writing mechanically in characters resembling print
- massage therapist — sb who gives body rubs
- matter of opinion — a point open to question; a debatable statement
- mean piston speed — The mean piston speed is the distance traveled by a piston in a specified amount of time.
- mean proportional — (between two numbers a and b) a number x for which a/x = x/b : The number 3 is a mean proportional between 1 and 9.
- mean-spiritedness — the quality of being mean-spirited
- mental impairment — (in England, according to the Mental Health Act 1983) a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind, which includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning and is associated with abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct
- mentally impaired — with reduced or weakened mental capacity
- merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
- metabolic pathway — biochemistry: sequence of reactions within a cell or organism
- metalloproteinase — (enzyme) Any of several proteinases that have a metal atom (often zinc) at their active centre.