17-letter words containing m, o, n, e, s
- sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
- super-nationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
- superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
- superalimentation — nourishment; nutrition.
- supercolumniation — the placing of one order of columns above another.
- supernova remnant — an expanding shell of gas, with accompanying strong radio and x-ray emissions, produced by a supernova.
- support mechanism — any formal system or method of providing support or assistance
- supreme commander — the military officer commanding all allied forces in a theater of war.
- surprise symphony — the Symphony No. 94 in G major (1791) by Franz Josef Haydn.
- survivor syndrome — a characteristic group of symptoms, including recurrent images of death, depression, persistent anxiety, and emotional numbness, occurring in survivors of disaster.
- sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
- sydenham's chorea — a form of chorea affecting children, often associated with rheumatic fever
- 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.
- synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
- take some beating — to be difficult to improve upon
- teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
- telephone message — a message that is transmitted by telephone
- telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
- terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
- tertiary consumer — a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.
- testimony meeting — a meeting at which persons give testimonies of religious faith and related religious experiences.
- the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
- the sound of mull — the water that separates the island of Mull from the mainland of Scotland
- theory of numbers — number theory.
- thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
- thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
- think in terms of — If you say that you are thinking in terms of doing a particular thing, you mean that you are considering it.
- thiopental sodium — a barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 NaO 2 S, used as an anesthetic in surgery and, in psychiatry, for narcoanalysis and to stimulate recall of past events.
- thompson seedless — a yellow, seedless variety of grape used in producing raisins.
- thomson's gazelle — a medium-sized antelope, Gazella thomsoni, abundant on the grassy steppes and dry bush of the East African plains.
- three-dimensional — having, or seeming to have, the dimension of depth as well as width and height.
- to fan the flames — If someone or something fans the flames of a situation or feeling, usually a bad one, they make it more intense or extreme in some way.
- to lose your mind — If you say that someone is losing their mind, you mean that they are becoming mad.
- to make ends meet — If you find it difficult to make ends meet, you can only just manage financially because you hardly have enough money for the things you need.
- to read sb's mind — If you can read someone's mind, you know what they are thinking without them saying anything.
- tourette syndrome — a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent involuntary movements, including multiple neck jerks and sometimes vocal tics, as grunts, barks, or words, especially obscenities.
- transmission line — a system of conductors, as coaxial cable, a wave guide, or a pair of parallel wires, used to transmit signals.
- triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
- tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
- turner's syndrome — an abnormal congenital condition resulting from a defect on or absence of the second sex chromosome, characterized by retarded growth of the gonads.
- uncle tom's cabin — an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- uncomfortableness — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- unprofessionalism — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- vehicle emissions — substances emitted from a vehicle as a result of internal combustion
- waianae mountains — a mountain range in W Oahu, Hawaii. Highest peak, Mount Kaala, 4025 feet (1228 meters).
- welfare economics — a branch of economics concerned with improving human welfare and social conditions chiefly through the optimum distribution of wealth, the relief or reduction of unemployment, etc.
- well-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.