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17-letter words containing m, o, d, e, s, t

  • domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
  • doorstep salesman — a door-to-door salesman
  • down in the dumps — If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable.
  • dramatis personae — (used with a plural verb) the characters in a play.
  • emissions trading — the buying and selling of allowances for pollutant emissions
  • employee discount — When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount, they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
  • first commandment — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”: first of the Ten Commandments.
  • fractal dimension — (mathematics)   A common type of fractal dimension is the Hausdorff-Besicovich Dimension, but there are several different ways of computing fractal dimension. Fractal dimension can be calculated by taking the limit of the quotient of the log change in object size and the log change in measurement scale, as the measurement scale approaches zero. The differences come in what is exactly meant by "object size" and what is meant by "measurement scale" and how to get an average number out of many different parts of a geometrical object. Fractal dimensions quantify the static *geometry* of an object. For example, consider a straight line. Now blow up the line by a factor of two. The line is now twice as long as before. Log 2 / Log 2 = 1, corresponding to dimension 1. Consider a square. Now blow up the square by a factor of two. The square is now 4 times as large as before (i.e. 4 original squares can be placed on the original square). Log 4 / log 2 = 2, corresponding to dimension 2 for the square. Consider a snowflake curve formed by repeatedly replacing ___ with _/\_, where each of the 4 new lines is 1/3 the length of the old line. Blowing up the snowflake curve by a factor of 3 results in a snowflake curve 4 times as large (one of the old snowflake curves can be placed on each of the 4 segments _/\_). Log 4 / log 3 = 1.261... Since the dimension 1.261 is larger than the dimension 1 of the lines making up the curve, the snowflake curve is a fractal. [sci.fractals FAQ].
  • from side to side — movement: back and forth
  • gustavo a. madero — official name of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
  • heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
  • historical method — the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.
  • holistic medicine — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • homogentisic acid — an intermediate compound in the metabolism of tyrosine and of phenylalanine, found in excess in the blood and urine of persons affected with alkaptonuria.
  • immediate version — child version
  • intermediate host — the host in which a parasite undergoes development but does not reach sexual maturity.
  • it doesn't matter — You say 'it doesn't matter' to tell someone who is apologizing to you that you are not angry or upset, and that they should not worry.
  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • lagrange's method — a procedure for finding maximum and minimum values of a function of several variables when the variables are restricted by additional conditions.
  • lambdoidal suture — the lambda-shaped seam or line of joining between the occipital and two parietal bones at the back part of the skull.
  • liberal democrats — (in Britain) a political party with centrist policies; established in 1988 as the Social and Liberal Democrats when the Liberal Party merged with the Social Democratic Party; renamed Liberal Democrats in 1989
  • load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
  • lobster thermidor — a dish of cooked lobster meat placed back in the shell with a cream sauce, sprinkled with grated cheese and melted butter, and browned in the oven.
  • lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
  • maintained school — a school financially supported by the state
  • majority decision — a decision supported by more than half the people involved
  • make inroads into — to start to use up the supply of something
  • mean piston speed — The mean piston speed is the distance traveled by a piston in a specified amount of time.
  • meat and potatoes — If you refer to the meat and potatoes of something, you mean its most basic, simple, and essential parts.
  • meat-and-potatoes — fundamental; down-to-earth; basic: What are the meat-and-potatoes issues of the election?
  • medium close shot — a shot taken fairly close to the subject, but not as close as a close-up
  • memoised function — memo function
  • mexican stand-off — A Mexican stand-off is a situation in which neither of the people or groups in a conflict or dispute can win and neither wants to give in first.
  • microdensitometer — a densitometer for measuring the density of minute areas of photographic negatives.
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • midterm elections — elections held halfway through the term of office of a president during which governors, etc, but not a president, are elected
  • minas de riotinto — a town in SW Spain: copper mines.
  • misidentification — to identify incorrectly.
  • mode of transport — means of travel
  • modest mussorgski — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
  • mom and pop store — a small retail business, typically family-operated
  • montessori method — a system for teaching young children, in which the fundamental aim is self-motivated education by the children themselves, as they are encouraged to move freely through individualized instruction and physical exercises, accompanied by special emphasis on the training of the senses and the early development of reading and writing skills.
  • most well studied — marked by or suggestive of conscious effort; not spontaneous or natural; affected: studied simplicity.
  • movable-do system — a system of solmization in which the syllable do can be transposed to the tonic of any key.
  • multitudinousness — The state or condition of being multitudinous.
  • mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
  • non-demonstrative — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
  • old contemptibles — the British expeditionary force to France in 1914
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