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

  • compartmentalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compartmentalize.
  • complementariness — forming a complement; completing.
  • complementarities — Plural form of complementarity.
  • complimentariness — The state or quality of being complimentary.
  • compound interest — Compound interest is interest that is calculated both on an original sum of money and on interest which has previously been added to the sum. Compare simple interest.
  • comprehensibility — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • compression ratio — the ratio of the volume enclosed by the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine at the beginning of the compression stroke to the volume enclosed at the end of it
  • computer graphics — the use of a computer to produce and manipulate pictorial images on a video screen, as in animation techniques or the production of audiovisual aids
  • computer security — security
  • concertmistresses — Plural form of concertmistress.
  • congregationalism — a system of Christian doctrines and ecclesiastical government in which each congregation is self-governing and maintains bonds of faith with other similar local congregations
  • consignment store — a retail store that sells secondhand items on behalf of others and receives a percentage of the sales price.
  • coordinate system — a system of coordinates that uses numbers to represent a point, line, or the like.
  • copernican system — the theory published in 1543 by Copernicus which stated that the earth and the planets rotated around the sun and which opposed the Ptolemaic system
  • copious free time — (jargon)   (Apple; originally from the introduction to Tom Lehrer's song "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier") Used ironically to indicate the speaker's lack of the quantity in question; a mythical schedule slot for accomplishing tasks held to be unlikely or impossible. Sometimes used to indicate that the speaker is interested in accomplishing the task, but believes that the opportunity will not arise. "I'll implement the automatic layout stuff in my copious free time." The phrase is also used for time reserved for bogus or otherwise idiotic tasks, such as implementation of bad chrome, or the stroking of suits. "I'll get back to him on that feature in my copious free time."
  • crisis management — People use crisis management to refer to a management style that concentrates on solving the immediate problems occurring in a business rather than looking for long-term solutions.
  • cross-examination — to examine by questions intended to check a previous examination; examine closely or minutely.
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • deconstructionism — The belief in, or application of, deconstruction.
  • decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
  • defamiliarisation — (arts) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
  • dematerialisation — The act or process of dematerializing.
  • democritus junior — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
  • demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
  • descending rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by the succession of metrical feet each of which is composed of one accented syllable followed by one or more unaccented syllables.
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • deterministically — the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws.
  • diaphragm shutter — a camera shutter having a group of overlapping blades that open and close at the center when exposing film.
  • dining room suite — a set of furniture used in a dining room
  • director of music — a person in charge of musical training and performance at an institution such as a college, especially the head bandmaster of a military band
  • disintermediation — the act of removing funds from savings banks and placing them into short-term investments on which the interest-rate yields are higher.
  • domestic commerce — an interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries (foreign commerce) or between different parts of the same country (domestic commerce) trade; business.
  • dramatis personae — (used with a plural verb) the characters in a play.
  • emergency rations — food and drink that is designated for use in an emergency: for example, in a famine, after a plane crash, when hill-walkers or mountaineers are stranded, etc.
  • emission spectrum — the continuous spectrum or pattern of bright lines or bands seen when the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a substance is passed into a spectrometer. The spectrum is characteristic of the emitting substance and the type of excitation to which it is subjected
  • emissions trading — the buying and selling of allowances for pollutant emissions
  • enrolment figures — the numbers of people enrolling at an institution, on a course, etc
  • environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
  • experimental lisp — (language)   (xlisp) An experimental programming language combining a subset of Common Lisp with an object-oriented extension capability (Class and Object types). It was implemented by David Micheal Betz at Apple to allow experimentation with object-oriented programming on small computers. The C source code has been ported to Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari, and MS-DOS. Version 2.1 of the interpreter, by Tom Almy is closer to Common Lisp. E-mail: Tom Almy <[email protected]>.
  • first commandment — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”: first of the Ten Commandments.
  • first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
  • first triumvirate — the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, formed in 60 bc
  • fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
  • flight instrument — any instrument used to indicate the altitude, attitude, airspeed, drift, or direction of an aircraft.
  • fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
  • fractal dimension — (mathematics)   A common type of fractal dimension is the Hausdorff-Besicovich Dimension, but there are several different ways of computing fractal dimension. Fractal dimension can be calculated by taking the limit of the quotient of the log change in object size and the log change in measurement scale, as the measurement scale approaches zero. The differences come in what is exactly meant by "object size" and what is meant by "measurement scale" and how to get an average number out of many different parts of a geometrical object. Fractal dimensions quantify the static *geometry* of an object. For example, consider a straight line. Now blow up the line by a factor of two. The line is now twice as long as before. Log 2 / Log 2 = 1, corresponding to dimension 1. Consider a square. Now blow up the square by a factor of two. The square is now 4 times as large as before (i.e. 4 original squares can be placed on the original square). Log 4 / log 2 = 2, corresponding to dimension 2 for the square. Consider a snowflake curve formed by repeatedly replacing ___ with _/\_, where each of the 4 new lines is 1/3 the length of the old line. Blowing up the snowflake curve by a factor of 3 results in a snowflake curve 4 times as large (one of the old snowflake curves can be placed on each of the 4 segments _/\_). Log 4 / log 3 = 1.261... Since the dimension 1.261 is larger than the dimension 1 of the lines making up the curve, the snowflake curve is a fractal. [sci.fractals FAQ].
  • from side to side — movement: back and forth
  • functional isomer — any of several structural isomers that have the same molecular formula but with the atoms connected in different ways and therefore falling into different functional groups.
  • general sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
  • general semantics — a philosophical approach to language, developed by Alfred Korzybski, exploring the relationship between the form of language and its use and attempting to improve the capacity to express ideas.
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