17-letter words containing m, e, a, t, n

permanent address — a fixed address
permutation group — a mathematical group whose elements are permutations and in which the product of two permutations is the same permutation as is obtained by performing them in succession.
personal computer — a compact computer that uses a microprocessor and is designed for individual use, as by a person in an office or at home or school, for such applications as word processing, data management, financial analysis, or computer games. Abbreviation: PC.
phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
phase of the moon — Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend. Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine. "This feature depends on having the channel open in mumble mode, having the foo switch set, and on the phase of the moon." See also heisenbug. True story: Once upon a time there was a bug that really did depend on the phase of the moon. There was a little subroutine that had traditionally been used in various programs at MIT to calculate an approximation to the moon's true phase. GLS incorporated this routine into a Lisp program that, when it wrote out a file, would print a timestamp line almost 80 characters long. Very occasionally the first line of the message would be too long and would overflow onto the next line, and when the file was later read back in the program would barf. The length of the first line depended on both the precise date and time and the length of the phase specification when the timestamp was printed, and so the bug literally depended on the phase of the moon! The first paper edition of the Jargon File (Steele-1983) included an example of one of the timestamp lines that exhibited this bug, but the typesetter "corrected" it. This has since been described as the phase-of-the-moon-bug bug.
phumiphon aduldet — (Phumiphon Aduldet; Bhumibol Adulyadej) born 1927, king of Thailand since 1946.
picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
police department — A police department is an official organization which is responsible for making sure that people obey the law.
political economy — a social science dealing with political policies and economic processes, their interrelations, and their influence on social institutions.
portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
portmanteau morph — a phonological unit of more than one morpheme, as French au to (him) from a to + le masculine article, which realizes a preposition and the definite article; a single morph that is analyzed as representing two underlying morphemes.
postmillennialism — the doctrine or belief that the second coming of Christ will follow the millennium.
potassium cyanide — a white, granular, water-soluble, poisonous powder, KCN, having a faint almondlike odor, used chiefly in metallurgy and photography.
potassium nitrate — a crystalline compound, KNO 3 , produced by nitrification in soil, and used in gunpowders, fertilizers, and preservatives; saltpeter; niter.
pre-communication — the act or process of communicating; fact of being communicated.
pre-manifestation — an act of manifesting.
pre-modifications — an act or instance of modifying.
prealternate molt — the molt by which many birds replace only some and rarely all of the feathers assumed at the prebasic molt, usually occurring prior to breeding.
premonstratensian — a member of a religious order founded at Prémontré in N France in 1120 by St Norbert (about 1080–1134)
presentationalism — a style of production in which the audience is addressed directly with songs, skits, exposition, etc., and no attempt is made at realism.
price maintenance — measures taken by manufacturers to maintain the price charged for their goods by resellers
prima inter pares — (of a female) first among equals.
primary dentition — the deciduous dentition
primary education — junior, elementary schooling
primary intention — Logic. See under intention (def 5a).
primary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
prime ministerial — of or relating to the head of a parliamentary government
private placement — a sale of an issue of securities by the issuing company directly to a limited number of investors, often only one or two large institutional investors, such as a bank or an insurance company (opposed to public offering): required to be cleared but not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
pro-environmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
product placement — Product placement is a form of advertising in which a company has its product placed where it can be clearly seen during a film or television programme.
program generator — a computer program that can be used to help to create other computer programs
program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
promenade concert — a concert at which some of the audience stand rather than sit
promotional event — occasion organized to market or advertise sth
pseudo-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
put a dampener on — To put a dampener on something means the same as to put a damper on it.
put on the market — offer for sale
quantum cell wire — (electronics, computing) (Or "quantum wire", "binary wire") Quantum cells arranged in a line to carry signals. Adjacent cells with the same orientation are at a low energy state and a change of orientation at one end of a quantum wire propagates along the wire, transmitting a signal. However, unlike conventional wire, since only the orientation of charge pairs changes, no current flows. Circuits created using quantum cell wires are referred to as Quantum-dot Wireless Digital Circuits, see quantum dot, Quantum-dot Cellular Automata.
quantum chemistry — the application of quantum mechanics to the study of chemical phenomena.
quantum mechanics — a theory of the mechanics of atoms, molecules, and other physical systems that are subject to the uncertainty principle. Abbreviation: QM.
quasiexperimental — (medicine) Describing a trial in which the assignment to a group is based upon an experimental condition.
racial harassment — persecution on the basis of race
radiant emittance — radiant flux emitted per unit area.
recoil escapement — anchor escapement.
reduction formula — a formula, such as sin (90° ± A) = cos A, expressing the values of a trigonometric function of any angle greater than 90° in terms of a function of an acute angle
relative pathname — (file system) A path relative to the working directory. Its first character can be anything but the pathname separator.
remittance advice — a letter sent by a customer to a supplier, to let them know that their invoice has been paid
repeating decimal — a decimal numeral that, after a certain point, consists of a group of one or more digits repeated ad infinitum, as 2.33333 …. or 23.0218181818 ….
repeating firearm — a firearm capable of discharging a number of shots without reloading.
repertory company — repertory (def 2).

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