19-letter words containing m, a, y, d, e
- magnesium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, Mg(OH) 2 , used chiefly in medicine as an antacid and as a laxative.
- magnetohydrodynamic — Of or pertaining to magnetohydrodynamics.
- maratha confederacy — a loose league of states in central and western India, c1750–1818.
- mary mcleod bethune — Mary McLeod [muh-kloud] /məˈklaʊd/ (Show IPA), 1875–1955, U.S. educator and civil-rights leader.
- mashye and mashyane — (in the Avesta) the first couple, man and woman, created by Ahura Mazda from a rhubarb plant grown from the seed of Gayomart.
- maximum maytag mode — (storage, humour) (From the US brand of washing machine) What a washing machine or, by extension, any hard disk is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced load. If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks becoming walking drives.
- midafternoon prayer — the fifth of the seven canonical hours; none
- mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
- multidimensionality — The property of being multidimensional.
- multimedia analysis — Multimedia analysis is the consideration of all possible risks relating to pollution and waste management.
- munchausen syndrome — a factitious disorder in which otherwise healthy individuals seek to hospitalize themselves with feigned or self-induced pathology in order to receive surgical or other medical treatment.
- neuropsychodynamics — The theoretical synthesis of neuroscience and psychodynamics.
- novell data systems — (company) A small computer hardware company building CP/M Z80-based systems. They later went on to become Novell, Inc. and develop Novell Netware.
- ordnance survey map — An Ordnance Survey map is a detailed map produced by the British or Irish government map-making organization.
- palisade parenchyma — the upper layer of ground tissue in a leaf, consisting of elongated cells beneath and perpendicular to the upper epidermis and constituting the primary area of photosynthesis.
- parathyroid hormone — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the parathyroid glands, that helps regulate the blood levels of calcium and phosphate. Abbreviation: PTH.
- phenylthiocarbamide — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
- physically impaired — with reduced or weakened physical capacity
- pleased to meet you — greeting
- potassium hydroxide — a white, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, KOH, usually in the form of lumps, sticks, or pellets, that upon solution in water generates heat: used chiefly in the manufacture of soap, as a laboratory reagent, and as a caustic.
- semidetached binary — a pair of stars that are so close together that mass transfer occurs from one to the other
- sessional indemnity — the remuneration paid to a member of the Canadian parliament.
- simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
- smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
- take my word for it — If you say to someone 'take my word for it', you mean that they should believe you because you are telling the truth.
- tall poppy syndrome — a tendency to disparage any person who has achieved great prominence or wealth
- tetramethyldiarsine — an oily slightly water-soluble poisonous liquid with garlic-like odour. Its derivatives are used as accelerators for rubber
- the admiralty board — (formerly) a department of the British Ministry of Defence, responsible for the administration and planning of the Royal Navy
- the almighty dollar — money regarded figuratively as a god, or source of great power
- the high and mighty — people who are considered very important
- the london assembly — the devolved legislature of London, based in City Hall, Southwark
- to change your mind — If you change your mind, or if someone or something changes your mind, you change a decision you have made or an opinion that you had.
- unlimited liability — liability that is not restricted to any unpaid portion of nominal capital invested in a business
- velocity modulation — the modulation in velocity of a beam of electrons or ions caused by passing the beam through a high-frequency electric field, as in a cavity resonator
- veterinary medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the study, prevention, and treatment of diseases in animals, especially domesticated animals.
- wade-giles (system) — a system for transliterating Chinese ideograms into the Latin alphabet, in wide use esp. before Pinyin was adopted by the People's Republic of China in 1979
- wassermann antibody — reagin (def 1).
- wesleyan methodists — a branch of the Methodist Church in its original form
- withdrawal syndrome — a spectrum of physical and behavioral symptoms following cessation from the continuous use of an addictive drug, the character and severity of the symptoms depending upon the particular drug and the daily dose.
- yeoman of the guard — a member of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, instituted in 1485, which now consists of 100 men, including officers, having purely ceremonial duties.