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23-letter words containing m, r, s

  • guest relations manager — A guest relations manager at a hotel is responsible for the relationships that the hotel has with its guests and the way in which it treats them.
  • guillain-barre syndrome — an uncommon, usually self-limited form of polyneuritis, occurring after a viral illness or immunization and manifested by loss of muscle strength, loss of or altered sensation and sometimes paralysis.
  • hang on someone's words — to listen to someone eagerly
  • hermit of st. augustine — a member of an order of mendicant friars, founded in 1256.
  • hire purchase agreement — an agreement between a seller and a buyer for the buyer to purchase something on hire purchase
  • homonymous construction — a construction that consists of the same morphemes in the same order as those of another construction, as Flying planes can be dangerous, in which planes in one construction is the object of flying, and in another the subject of can; a terminal string of formatives having two or more structural descriptions.
  • human rights campaigner — a person who campaigns for human rights
  • hunter-killer submarine — a submarine designed and equipped to pursue and destroy enemy craft
  • if worst comes to worst — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
  • immigration authorities — the authorities or official government bodies who regulate laws regarding immigration and immigrants
  • in a manner of speaking — a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.: I don't like the manner in which he complained.
  • in someone's bad graces — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • in the arms of morpheus — sleeping
  • indirect discrimination — discrimination by means of rules, regulations or procedures that may appear to be neutral, but which actually discriminate against certain groups of people.
  • informatics corporation — (company)   Renamed to Sterling Software Corp.
  • inland marine insurance — insurance chiefly covering risks to goods and means of transportation involved in the transporting of goods overland or by inland waterways.
  • interfascicular cambium — cambium that develops between the vascular bundles.
  • interference microscope — a microscope that utilizes light interference phenomena to create two superimposed images of an object, making possible the observation of transparent objects without using the staining technique.
  • intrinsic semiconductor — an almost pure semiconductor to which no impurities have been added and in which the electron and hole densities are equal at thermal equilibrium
  • katmai new instructions — Streaming SIMD Extensions
  • keep (a person) company — to stay with (a person) so as to provide companionship
  • keep sb at arm's length — If you keep someone at arm's length, you avoid becoming too friendly or involved with them.
  • knight in shining armor — chivalrous man
  • l'apres-midi d'un faune — L'Après-midi d'un Faune.
  • largemouth (black) bass — a black bass (Micropterus salmoides) found in warm, sluggish waters
  • lawrence livermore labs — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • light-emitting resistor — (electronics, humour)   (LER, from "light-emitting diode") A resistor in the final stages of burning up. (Though intended as purely humorous, the term could sensibly describe the filament of a common incandescent electric light bulb). See also SED.
  • liquefied petroleum gas — a mixture of various petroleum gases, esp propane and butane, stored as a liquid under pressure and used as an engine fuel
  • lossy audio compression — (audio, compression)   Any audio compression algorithm which does not retain every bit of data but only reproduces a signal that sounds more or less like the original. Examples are MP1, MP2, MP3, AAC.
  • lower of cost or market — Lower of cost or market is a method of valuing assets where the asset is valued at either the historical cost or the fair market value, whichever is lower.
  • magnetic field strength — that part of the magnetic induction that is determined at any point in space by the current density and displacement current at that point independently of the magnetic or other physical properties of the surrounding medium. Symbol: H.
  • magnetic resonance scan — MR scan.
  • main distribution frame — (networking)   (MDF) The network closet containing the main hub.
  • make a fool of yourself — do sth stupid
  • make allowances for sth — If you make allowances for something, you take it into account in your decisions, plans, or actions.
  • make sb's life a misery — If someone makes your life a misery, they behave in an unpleasant way towards you over a period of time and make you very unhappy.
  • martha washington chair — a chair of the 18th century having a high upholstered back, a low upholstered seat, and short arms resting on incurvate supports.
  • martha washington table — a sewing table of the 18th century having an oval top that can be lifted and a central compartment of drawers with semicircular bins at each end.
  • master gunnery sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking above a master sergeant. Abbreviation: Mgy Sgt.
  • masters of the universe — extremely powerful and wealthy members of the financial professions
  • maturity-onset diabetes — diabetes (def 4).
  • maximal free expression — (MFE) A free expression is sub-expression of a lambda abstraction not containing the bound variable. A maximal free expression is a free expression not contained within any other free expression. See full laziness.
  • meaningful relationship — a romantic relationship based upon mutual respect and supportiveness and marked by a sense of commitment and fulfillment.
  • message transport agent — Message Transfer Agent
  • micro assembly language — (language)   (MAL) A microprogramming language with high-level syntax, used in the reference below. See also Mic-1, Mac-1.
  • micropachycephalosaurus — A very small pachycephalosaurid, ornithischian dinosaur of the genus Micropachycephalosaurus.
  • midsummer night's dream — a comedy (1595?) by Shakespeare.
  • mild mercurous chloride — calomel.
  • minimum security prison — A minimum security prison is a prison where there are fewer restrictions on prisoners than in a normal prison.
  • modern sequence dancing — a form of dancing in which ballroom dance steps are used as the basis of a wide variety of different dances typically performed in a sequence
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