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17-letter words containing m, i, l, a, r

  • plains of abraham — a high plain adjoining the city of Quebec, Canada: battlefield where the English under Wolfe defeated the French under Montcalm in 1759.
  • police department — A police department is an official organization which is responsible for making sure that people obey the law.
  • portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
  • poststructuralism — a variation of structuralism, often seen as a critique, emphasizing plurality of meaning and instability of concepts that structuralism uses to define society, language, etc.
  • presentationalism — a style of production in which the audience is addressed directly with songs, skits, exposition, etc., and no attempt is made at realism.
  • primary qualities — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
  • 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.
  • professional army — an army of trained soldiers
  • programming fluid — (jargon)   (Or "wirewater") Coffee, unleaded coffee (decaffeinated), Cola, or any caffeinacious stimulant. Many hackers consider these essential for those all-night hacking runs.
  • promotional event — occasion organized to market or advertise sth
  • pronominalization — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
  • pseudo-moralistic — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
  • purely and simply — You use purely and simply to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the only thing involved.
  • quadratic formula — the formula for determining theroots of a quadratic equation from its coefficients: .
  • 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.
  • 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
  • radial keratotomy — a surgical technique for correcting nearsightedness by making a series of spokelike incisions in the cornea to change its shape and focusing properties.
  • radio alarm clock — an alarm clock which consists of a radio that can be set to play at a particular time
  • radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
  • railway timetable — a list of railway journeys arranged according to the time when they begin and end
  • rat-tailed maggot — the aquatic larva of any of several syrphid flies of the genus Eristalis, that breathes through a long, thin tube at the posterior end of its body.
  • recoil escapement — anchor escapement.
  • recurring decimal — Mathematics. repeating decimal.
  • recursion formula — a formula for determining the next term of a sequence from one or more of the preceding terms.
  • 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 humidity — the amount of water vapor in the air, expressed as a percentage of the maximum amount that the air could hold at the given temperature; the ratio of the actual water vapor pressure to the saturation vapor pressure. Abbreviation: RH, rh.
  • relative majority — the excess of votes or seats won by the winner of an election over the runner-up when no candidate or party has more than 50 per cent
  • relative pathname — (file system)   A path relative to the working directory. Its first character can be anything but the pathname separator.
  • relativistic mass — the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to the rest mass multiplied by a factor that is greater than 1 and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases.
  • 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 ….
  • ring-tailed lemur — a Madagascan prosimian primate, Lemur catta, with a long black and white ringed tail
  • role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
  • roman catholicism — the faith, practice, and system of government of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • saint elmo's fire — corona discharge.
  • scarlet pimpernel — a plant belonging to the genus Anagallis, of the primrose family, especially A. arvensis (scarlet pimpernel) having scarlet or white flowers that close at the approach of bad weather.
  • self-administered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
  • self-confirmation — the act of confirming.
  • self-impregnating — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • selkirk mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Sandford, 3533 m (11 590 ft)
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • semi-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
  • semi-permeability — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • semi-professional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
  • seminal principle — a potential, latent within an imperfect object, for attaining full development.
  • sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
  • silk manufacturer — a person or business that is involved in the manufacture of silk thread and fabric
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