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17-letter words containing m, e, i, s, t, r

  • geomagnetic storm — magnetic storm.
  • grist to the mill — If you say that something is grist to the mill, you mean that it is useful for a particular purpose or helps support someone's point of view.
  • haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • historical method — the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.
  • home improvements — improvements to one's home, such as new kitchens and bathrooms, central heating etc
  • homeland security — national defence
  • hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • image intensifier — any of various devices for amplifying the intensity of an optical image, sometimes used in conjunction with an image converter
  • immediate version — child version
  • immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
  • immunofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or using immunofluorescence.
  • immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
  • 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.
  • incompressibility — The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.
  • indeterminateness — The quality of being indeterminate.
  • insertion element — a section of DNA that is capable of becoming inserted into another chromosome
  • instrument flying — the control and navigation of an aircraft by reference to its gauges, with no or only limited visual reference outside the cockpit.
  • instrumentalities — Plural form of instrumentality.
  • insulin treatment — treatment of diabetes with insulin
  • intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
  • intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
  • interior minister — the minister who is responsible for domestic affairs
  • intermediate host — the host in which a parasite undergoes development but does not reach sexual maturity.
  • intersectionalism — The study of minorities within minorities, or intersections between minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination.
  • interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
  • investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
  • invisible imports — imports of services rather than goods
  • inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.
  • irrigation system — a system of supplying (land) with water by means of artificial canals, ditches, etc, esp to promote the growth of food crops
  • it doesn't matter — You say 'it doesn't matter' to tell someone who is apologizing to you that you are not angry or upset, and that they should not worry.
  • jerusalem cricket — a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper, Stenopelmatus fuscus, occuring chiefly in loose soil and sand along the Pacific coast of the U.S.
  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • 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.
  • lambdoidal suture — the lambda-shaped seam or line of joining between the occipital and two parietal bones at the back part of the skull.
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • latent strabismus — the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.
  • let something rip — If you let something rip, you do it as quickly or as forcefully as possible. You can say 'let it rip' or 'let her rip' to someone when you want them to make a vehicle go as fast as it possibly can.
  • liberal democrats — (in Britain) a political party with centrist policies; established in 1988 as the Social and Liberal Democrats when the Liberal Party merged with the Social Democratic Party; renamed Liberal Democrats in 1989
  • life imprisonment — long-term prison sentence
  • linear assignment — assignment problem
  • lobster thermidor — a dish of cooked lobster meat placed back in the shell with a cream sauce, sprinkled with grated cheese and melted butter, and browned in the oven.
  • magnetic roasting — roasting of a nonmagnetic ore to render it magnetic so that it can be separated from gangue by means of a magnetic field.
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