21-letter words containing m, o, t, r
- cooperative-apartment — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- coordination compound — complex (def 10).
- coronal mass ejection — a cloud of particles ejected from the sun's surface during a solar flare
- cosmological argument — one of the arguments that purport to prove the existence of God from empirical facts about the universe, esp the argument to the existence of a first cause
- cosmological redshift — the part of the redshift of celestial objects resulting from the expansion of the universe.
- count of monte cristo — a novel (1844–45) by Alexandre Dumas père.
- counterdemonstrations — Plural form of counterdemonstration.
- court of common pleas — (formerly) a superior court exercising jurisdiction in civil actions between private citizens
- criminal conversation — (formerly) a common law action brought by a husband by which he claimed damages against an adulterer
- crittenden compromise — a series of constitutional amendments proposed in Congress in 1860 to serve as a compromise between proslavery and antislavery factions, one of which would have permitted slavery in the territories south but not north of latitude 36°30′N.
- crool someone's pitch — to spoil an opportunity for someone
- customer satisfaction — When customers are pleased with the goods or services they have bought, you can refer to customer satisfaction.
- dacryocystorhinostomy — A surgical procedure to restore the flow of tears into the nose from the lacrimal sac when the nasolacrimal duct does not function.
- datamatic corporation — Honeywell
- dead from the neck up — stupid or unintelligent
- democratic centralism — the Leninist principle that policy should be decided centrally by officials, who are nominally democratically elected
- department of defense — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with ensuring that the military capacity of the U.S. is adequate to safeguard the national security. Abbreviation: DOD.
- department of justice — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for the enforcement of federal laws. Abbreviation: DOJ.
- deployment descriptor — (programming) (DD) A J2EE configuration file.
- dew-point temperature — the temperature to which air must be cooled, at a given pressure and water-vapor content, for it to reach saturation; the temperature at which dew begins to form.
- diapason normal pitch — a standard of pitch in which A above middle C is established at 435 vibrations per second.
- differential geometry — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the principles of differential and integral calculus to the study of curves and surfaces.
- disassortative mating — the reproductive pairing of individuals that have traits more dissimilar than would likely be the case if mating were random (contrasted with assortative mating).
- discriminant function — a linear function of measurements of different properties of an object or event that is used to assign the object or event to one population or another (discriminant analysis)
- disk operating system — DOS.
- draft once reuse many — (jargon) (DORUM) Reusing parts of a document to produce parts of an entirely new document. The term normally refers to text documents but the practise is equally common in programming.
- dutch reformed church — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- earthmoving equipment — machines, such as bulldozers, that are used for excavating and moving large quantities of earth
- eastern european time — a standard time used by some countries in Eastern Europe, such as Finland, Romania, etc and also some countries of the Middle East and North Africa
- electrochromatography — chromatography effected by the influence of an applied electric field
- electroencephalograms — Plural form of electroencephalogram.
- electromagnetic field — a field of force associated with a moving electric charge equivalent to an electric field and a magnetic field at right angles to each other and to the direction of propagation
- electromagnetic pulse — a surge of electromagnetic radiation, esp one resulting from a nuclear explosion, which can disrupt electronic devices and, occasionally, larger structures and equipment
- electromyographically — By means of, or in terms of, electromyography.
- electronystagmography — A diagnostic test to record involuntary movements of the eye caused by a condition known as nystagmus. It can also be used to diagnose the cause of vertigo, dizziness or balance dysfunction by testing the vestibular system.
- emitter coupled logic — (ECL) (Or "Current Mode Logic") A technology for building logic gates where the emitter of a transistor is used as the output rather than its collector. ECL has a propagation time of 0.5 - 2 ns (faster than TTL) and a power dissipation 3 - 10 times higher than TTL.
- emotional correctness — pressure on an individual to be seen to feel the same emotion as others
- empirical probability — a measure or estimate of the degree of confidence one may have in the occurrence of an event, defined as the proportion observed in a sample
- employee contribution — money contributed by an employee to his or her employer's pension fund
- employer contribution — money contributed by an employer to his or her employee's pension fund
- endoplasmic reticulum — an extensive intracellular membrane system whose functions include synthesis and transport of lipids and, in regions where ribosomes are attached, of proteins
- enharmonic modulation — a change of key achieved by regarding a note in one key as an equivalent note in another. Thus E flat in the key of A flat could be regarded as D sharp in the key of B major
- environmental studies — a university course studying the environment and related issues
- exposure compensation — the act of overriding a camera's automatic exposure in order to achieve a particular effect or due to difficult lighting conditions
- faculty board meeting — a meeting of the governing body of a faculty
- fermat's last theorem — the unproved theorem that the equation xn + yn = zn has no solution for x, y, z nonzero integers when n is greater than 2.
- ferric sodium oxalate — an emerald-green, crystalline, extremely water-soluble salt, used in photography and blueprinting.
- flip someone the bird — give someone the finger (see phrase under finger)
- flotation compartment — in a boat, an enclosed section filled with air or gas to give buoyancy
- for someone's benefit — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.