17-letter words containing m, i, l, n, g
- special messenger — a postal worker who delivers mail by special delivery
- spinal meningitis — infection of spinal membrane
- symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
- tangential motion — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
- teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
- telecommunicating — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
- the enlightenment — an 18th-century philosophical movement stressing the importance of reason and the critical reappraisal of existing ideas and social institutions
- thermocoagulation — the coagulation of tissue by heat-producing high-frequency electric currents, used therapeutically to remove small growths or to create specific lesions in the brain.
- trailing geranium — an ivy-leaved variety of geranium, Pelargonium peltatum
- triangular matrix — a square matrix in which either all the entries above the principal diagonal, or all the entries below the principal diagonal, are zero.
- 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.
- uncomprehendingly — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- unipalm group plc — (company) A company floated in March 1994.
- universal grammar — a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- 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.
- 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.
- wrangell-mountain — Mount, an active volcano in SE Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. 14,006 feet (4269 meters).
- you're telling me — I know, I'm well aware
- zonal pelargonium — a pelargonium whose leaves are marked with concentric circles of a different colour to the rest of the leaf