21-letter words containing m, i, a, o, u, e
- earthmoving equipment — machines, such as bulldozers, that are used for excavating and moving large quantities of earth
- eastern european time — a standard time used by some countries in Eastern Europe, such as Finland, Romania, etc and also some countries of the Middle East and North Africa
- electromagnetic pulse — a surge of electromagnetic radiation, esp one resulting from a nuclear explosion, which can disrupt electronic devices and, occasionally, larger structures and equipment
- endoplasmic reticulum — an extensive intracellular membrane system whose functions include synthesis and transport of lipids and, in regions where ribosomes are attached, of proteins
- enharmonic modulation — a change of key achieved by regarding a note in one key as an equivalent note in another. Thus E flat in the key of A flat could be regarded as D sharp in the key of B major
- environmental studies — a university course studying the environment and related issues
- epidermolysis bullosa — type of genetic skin disorder
- euro-commercial paper — commercial paper issued in a eurocurrency
- exposure compensation — the act of overriding a camera's automatic exposure in order to achieve a particular effect or due to difficult lighting conditions
- faculty board meeting — a meeting of the governing body of a faculty
- ferric sodium oxalate — an emerald-green, crystalline, extremely water-soluble salt, used in photography and blueprinting.
- finite state automata — Finite State Machine
- foot-in-mouth disease — the habit of making inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent statements.
- functional imperative — a requirement for the survival of any social system, as communication, control of conflict, or socialization.
- gastrohepatic omentum — lesser omentum.
- general court-martial — a court-martial having the authority to try any offense against military law and to impose a sentence of dishonorable discharge or of death when provided by law.
- give someone a leg up — to help someone to climb an obstacle by pushing upwards
- gram-molecular weight — gram molecule. Abbreviation: GMW.
- great smoky mountains — the W part of the Appalachians, in W North Carolina and E Tennessee. Highest peak: Clingman's Dome, 2024 m (6642 ft)
- ground-effect machine — ACV (def 2).
- homogeneous catalysis — Homogeneous catalysis is catalysis in which the catalyst takes part in the reaction that it increases.
- hypogammaglobulinemia — A type of immune disorder characterised by a reduction in all types of gamma globulins.
- immaculate conception — the dogma of the unique privilege by which the Virgin Mary was conceived in her mother's womb without the stain of original sin through the anticipated merits of Jesus Christ. Compare virgin birth (def 1).
- immediate constituent — one of the usually two largest constituents of a construction: The immediate constituents of He ate his dinner are he and ate his dinner; of ate his dinner are ate and his dinner; etc. Abbreviation: IC.
- immunohistochemically — By means of or in regard to immunohistochemistry.
- in good circumstances — (of a person) in a good financial situation
- in no uncertain terms — If you say that someone tells a person something in no uncertain terms, you are emphasizing that they say it strongly and clearly so that there is no doubt about what they mean.
- in saecula saeculorum — for ever and ever.
- infectious ectromelia — ectromelia (def 2).
- intentional community — a community designed and planned around a social ideal or collective values and interests, often involving shared resources and responsibilities.
- joseph-marie jacquard — (person) /zhoh-zef' mah-ree' zhah-kar'/ (1752-07-07 to 1834-08-07) The inventor of the Jacquard loom.
- keto-enol tautomerism — tautomerism in which the tautomers are an enol and a keto form. The change occurs by transfer of a hydrogen atom within the molecule
- least common multiple — lowest common multiple.
- line of communication — a means by which information may be transmitted from one person to another
- magnetofluid dynamics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- maître d'hôtel butter — melted butter mixed with parsley and lemon juice
- make a policy paid up — If you make a policy paid up, you stop making premium payments into a life policy but still leave the coverage in place.
- make up for lost time — compensate for past inaction
- management accounting — business: preparing reports, accounts, etc.
- manufacturing process — chain of production
- marquise de pompadour — Marquise de (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Le Normant d'Étioles) 1721–64, mistress of Louis XV of France.
- maximum value theorem — the theorem that for a real-valued function f whose domain is a compact set, there is at least one element x in the domain of f for which f (x) achieves its largest value.
- mean square deviation — variance (def 3).
- mechanical suspension — the act of suspending.
- medium access control — Media Access Control
- miniature photography — photography with a camera using film that is 35 millimeters wide or less.
- modulus of elasticity — the ratio of the stress applied to a body or substance to the resulting strain within the elastic limit
- motion-picture camera — a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.
- motor neurone disease — Motor neurone disease is a disease which destroys the part of a person's nervous system that controls movement.
- mucopolysaccharidoses — Plural form of mucopolysaccharidosis.