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17-letter words containing m, o, u, n

  • 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.
  • synchronous motor — a synchronous machine that acts as a motor.
  • taconic mountains — a mountain range in SE New York, W Massachusetts, and SW Vermont, a highly eroded part of the Appalachian system. Highest peak, Mount Equinox, in Vermont 3816 feet (1163 meters).
  • telecommunicating — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • telecommunication — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
  • telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
  • temporary account — A temporary account is an account which is closed out at the end of the year.
  • temporomandibular — of, relating to, or situated near the hinge joint formed by the lower jaw and the temporal bone of the skull.
  • 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.
  • the sound of mull — the water that separates the island of Mull from the mainland of Scotland
  • the underemployed — underemployed people
  • theory of numbers — number theory.
  • thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
  • thermal pollution — a rise in the temperature of rivers or lakes that is injurious to water-dwelling life and is caused by the disposal of heated industrial waste water or water from the cooling towers of nuclear power plants.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • to lose your mind — If you say that someone is losing their mind, you mean that they are becoming mad.
  • to open your mind — If something opens your mind to new ideas or experiences, it makes you more willing to accept them or try them.
  • to slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget it.
  • 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.
  • triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
  • turn on the charm — If someone turns on the charm, they behave in a way that seems very friendly but which you think is insincere, often in order to obtain something or deceive someone.
  • 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.
  • ultramicrobalance — a balance for weighing precisely, to a hundredth of a microgram or less, minute quantities of material.
  • 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.
  • uncomprehendingly — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • unconformity trap — An unconformity trap is a hydrocarbon trap where the closure is made by an unconformity (= a formation of rock layers which represents a gap in the geological record).
  • undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • underground movie — a movie produced independently on a low budget and often using experimental techniques and avant-garde themes.
  • unemployment line — When people talk about the unemployment line, they are talking about the state of being unemployed, especially when saying how many people are unemployed.
  • unemployment rate — percentage of population without jobs
  • uniformitarianism — supporting, conforming to, or derived from a theory or doctrine about uniformity, especially on the subject of geology.
  • unipalm group plc — (company)   A company floated in March 1994.
  • unprofessionalism — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
  • urban development — the development or improvement of an urban area by building
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • utopian socialism — (sometimes initial capital letter) an economic system based on the premise that if capital voluntarily surrendered its ownership of the means of production to the state or the workers, unemployment and poverty would be abolished.
  • vacuum aspiration — menstrual extraction.
  • vacuum extraction — applying suction to a baby's head during birth to help it emerge
  • victor emmanuel i — 1759–1824, king of Sardinia 1802–21.
  • 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.
  • waianae mountains — a mountain range in W Oahu, Hawaii. Highest peak, Mount Kaala, 4025 feet (1228 meters).
  • wallowa mountains — a mountain range in NE Oregon. Highest peak, Sacajawea Peak, 9838 feet (2999 meters).
  • welshman's button — an angler's name for a species of caddis fly, Sericostoma personatum
  • weston-super-mare — a town and resort in SW England, in North Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the Bristol Channel. Pop: 78 044 (2001)
  • woman of the hour — a woman honored by a group.
  • women's institute — (in Britain and Commonwealth countries) a society for women interested in the problems of the home and in engaging in social activities
  • wrangell-mountain — Mount, an active volcano in SE Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. 14,006 feet (4269 meters).
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