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17-letter words containing m, e, n, i

  • track maintenance — the process of maintaining and repairing railway tracks
  • traffic policeman — a policeman controlling traffic, esp while stationed at an intersection, or enforcing traffic regulations
  • trailing geranium — an ivy-leaved variety of geranium, Pelargonium peltatum
  • transcendentalism — transcendental character, thought, or language.
  • transmission line — a system of conductors, as coaxial cable, a wave guide, or a pair of parallel wires, used to transmit signals.
  • triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
  • tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
  • trigger mechanism — a physiological or psychological process caused by a stimulus and resulting in a usually severe reaction.
  • tropical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of diseases occurring in the tropics.
  • tympanic membrane — eardrum.
  • ultimate strength — the quantity of the utmost tensile, compressive, or shearing stress that a given unit area of a certain material is expected to bear without failing.
  • ultramicrobalance — a balance for weighing precisely, to a hundredth of a microgram or less, minute quantities of material.
  • uncircumscribable — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
  • uncle tom's cabin — an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • uncomprehendingly — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • underground movie — a movie produced independently on a low budget and often using experimental techniques and avant-garde themes.
  • unemployment line — When people talk about the unemployment line, they are talking about the state of being unemployed, especially when saying how many people are unemployed.
  • unimaginativeness — the quality of being unimaginative
  • universal grammar — a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
  • unix brain damage — Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that it will interoperate with Unix systems. The hack may qualify as "Unix brain damage" if the program conforms to published standards and the Unix program in question does not. Unix brain damage happens because it is much easier for other (minority) systems to change their ways to match non-conforming behaviour than it is to change all the hundreds of thousands of Unix systems out there. An example of Unix brain damage is a kluge in a mail server to recognise bare line feed (the Unix newline) as an equivalent form to the Internet standard newline, which is a carriage return followed by a line feed. Such things can make even a hardened jock weep.
  • unprofessionalism — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
  • unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • user brain damage — (humour)   (UBD) A description (usually abbreviated) used to close a trouble report obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part. Compare pilot error; opposite: PBD; see also brain-damaged, PEBCAK.
  • vacuum extraction — applying suction to a baby's head during birth to help it emerge
  • valetudinarianism — the state, condition, or habits of a valetudinarian.
  • van diemen's land — former name of Tasmania.
  • vehicle emissions — substances emitted from a vehicle as a result of internal combustion
  • velocity of money — the frequency with which a single unit of currency or the total money supply turns over within the economy in a given year.
  • victor emmanuel i — 1759–1824, king of Sardinia 1802–21.
  • village community — an early form of community organization in which land belonged to the village, the arable land being allotted to the members or households of the community by more or less permanent arrangements and the waste or excess land remaining undivided.
  • vitamin b complex — an important group of water-soluble vitamins containing vitamin B 1 , vitamin B 2 , etc.
  • waianae mountains — a mountain range in W Oahu, Hawaii. Highest peak, Mount Kaala, 4025 feet (1228 meters).
  • waist measurement — a measure of the circumference of the narrowest part of a person's waist
  • walk-in apartment — a ground-floor apartment having a private entrance directly from the street, rather than through a hallway of the building.
  • war establishment — the full wartime complement of men, equipment, and vehicles of a military unit
  • welfare economics — a branch of economics concerned with improving human welfare and social conditions chiefly through the optimum distribution of wealth, the relief or reduction of unemployment, etc.
  • well-woman clinic — a health-service clinic for preventive monitoring, health education, and advice for women
  • welsh nationalism — the political belief that Wales should be independent
  • westminster abbey — a Gothic church in London, England.
  • white-nationalism — white supremacy.
  • williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties
  • wimshurst machine — a device for the production of electric charge by electrostatic induction, consisting of two oppositely rotating glass or mica disks carrying metal strips upon which charges are induced and subsequently removed by contact with metallic combs.
  • windows messaging — (messaging)   Microsoft's Internet electronic mail application, formerly called Microsoft Exchange.
  • wire entanglement — a barbed-wire obstacle, usually mounted on posts and zigzagged back and forth along a front, designed to channel, delay, or halt an advance by enemy foot soldiers.
  • wish someone well — to wish success or good fortune for someone
  • witness statement — account of sb who saw an incident
  • women's institute — (in Britain and Commonwealth countries) a society for women interested in the problems of the home and in engaging in social activities
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