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19-letter words containing m, i, l, o, s

  • isidorus of miletus — flourished 6th century a.d, Byzantine engineer. He was one of the architects of Hagia Sophia; (originally an Orthodox cathedral and currently a museum in Istanbul, Turkey).
  • isthmus of san blas — the narrowest part of the Isthmus of Panama. Width: about 50 km (30 miles)
  • jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
  • jamaica honeysuckle — a climbing vine, Passiflora laurifolia, of tropical America, having red-spotted white flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide, with a white and violet-colored crown, and edible yellow fruit.
  • jerusalem artichoke — Also called girasol. a sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, having edible, tuberous, underground stems or rootstocks.
  • jump to conclusions — to come to a conclusion prematurely, without sufficient thought or on incomplete evidence
  • jumping plant louse — any of numerous lice, of the family Psyllidae, that feed on plant juices and are sometimes pests of fruits and vegetables.
  • knights of columbus — an international fraternal and benevolent organization of Roman Catholic men, founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882.
  • komandorski islands — a group of islands in the Bering Sea, in NE Russia, E of the Kamchatka Peninsula: U.S.-Japan naval battle, 1943.
  • league championship — the competition to become league champions
  • let someone have it — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
  • life-support system — A life-support system is the same as a life-support machine.
  • limit of resolution — the capacity of an optical system to resolve point objects as separate images.
  • liouville's theorem — the theorem that every function of a complex variable, bounded and differentiable for all finite values of the variable, is a constant function.
  • lobster-tail helmet — a burgonet fitted with a long, articulated tail of lames for protecting the nape of the neck, worn by cavalry in the 17th century.
  • locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
  • loss-of-containment — Loss-of-containment happens when a fluid which is usually contained somewhere escapes from that place.
  • luminous efficiency — the perceived brightness of light as a ratio of the total luminous flux to total radiant flux of the source; a measure of brightness obtained by dividing the source's luminous flux by the consumption of its energy.
  • lyon office of arms — Heralds' Office.
  • machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
  • maestro di cappella — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp a private one attached to the palace of a prince in Italy during the baroque period
  • main-topgallantmast — the mast next above the main-topmast.
  • malicious falsehood — a lie told by someone who knows the lie is false or knows it will do harm to the person it is concerning
  • malleable cast iron — white cast iron that has been malleablized.
  • manual transmission — an automotive transmission in which the driver shifts gears manually.
  • massive retaliation — a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
  • melodic minor scale — minor scale (def 2).
  • memory like a sieve — a very poor memory
  • meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
  • mild silver protein — a compound of silver and a protein, applied to mucous membranes as a mild antiseptic.
  • miracle of st. mark — a painting (1548) by Tintoretto.
  • miscellaneous items — various kinds of thing, esp small purchases
  • modulus of rigidity — shear modulus.
  • molecular biologist — a specialist in the study of biological phenomena at the molecular level
  • moses-in-the-cradle — a plant, Rhoeo spathacea, native to the West Indies and Central America, having leaves with purple undersides and white flowers enclosed in a boat-shaped envelope formed by two bracts.
  • mount desert island — an island off the coast of E central Maine: summer resort; forms part of Acadia National Park. 14 miles (23 km) long; 8 miles (13 km) wide.
  • mousseline de laine — a thin worsted fabric, often having a printed pattern.
  • mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
  • multidimensionality — The property of being multidimensional.
  • multiplication sign — Arithmetic. the symbol (⋅), (×), or (∗) between two mathematical expressions, denoting multiplication of the second expression by the first. In certain algebraic notations the sign is suppressed and multiplication is indicated by immediate juxtaposition or contiguity, as in ab.
  • mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
  • mutual masturbation — the act of two or more people masturbating each other
  • nail polish remover — solvent for removing nail polish
  • national serviceman — a soldier undertaking compulsory military service
  • network file system — (networking, operating system)   (NFS) A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems, and defined in RFC 1094, which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (UDP) in order to make it stateless. See Nightmare File System, WebNFS.
  • neurotransmissional — Relating to neurotransmission.
  • nominative absolute — a construction consisting in English of a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun in the nominative case followed by a predicate lacking a finite verb, used as a loose modifier of the whole sentence, as the play done in The play done, the audience left the theater.
  • normal distribution — a theoretical frequency distribution represented by a normal curve.
  • old spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • optimising compiler — (programming, tool)   compiler which attempts to analyse the code it produces and to produce more efficient code by performing program transformation such as branch elimination, partial evaluation, or peep-hole optimisation. Contrast pessimising compiler.
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