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17-letter words containing m, s, t, h

  • lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
  • lymphocytopoiesis — Lymphopoiesis.
  • maintained school — a school financially supported by the state
  • make light of sth — If you make light of something, you treat it as though it is not serious or important, when in fact it is.
  • make sense of sth — When you make sense of something, you succeed in understanding it.
  • make something of — to find a use for
  • make the dust fly — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
  • make the worst of — to be pessimistic about
  • man in the street — the ordinary person; the average citizen: the political opinions of the man in the street.
  • man on the street — man in the street.
  • manchester school — a school of economists in England in the first half of the 19th century, devoted to free trade and the repeal of the Corn Law, led by Richard Cobden and John Bright.
  • mann-whitney test — a statistical test of the difference between the distributions of data collected in two experimental conditions applied to unmatched groups of subjects but comparing the distributions of the ranks of the scores
  • mark of the beast — the mark put on the forehead of those who worship the beast, the symbol of opposition to God.
  • market researcher — a person who carries out market research
  • martha's vineyard — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. About 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
  • mass spectrograph — a mass spectroscope for recording a mass spectrum on a photographic plate.
  • massachusetts bay — an inlet of the Atlantic, off the E coast of Massachusetts.
  • massage therapist — sb who gives body rubs
  • may/might as well — If you say that you might as well do something, or that you may as well do it, you mean that you will do it although you do not have a strong desire to do it and may even feel slightly unwilling to do it.
  • mechanical tissue — a plant tissue made up of hard, thick-walled cells that add strength to an organ
  • medium close shot — a shot taken fairly close to the subject, but not as close as a close-up
  • merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
  • mesembryanthemums — Plural form of mesembryanthemum.
  • message switching — store and forward
  • methyl isocyanate — Chemistry. a highly toxic, flammable, colorless liquid, CH 3 NCO, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of pesticides: in 1984, the accidental release of a cloud of this gas in Bhopal, India, killed more than 1700 people and injured over 200,000.
  • methyl salicylate — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 8 H 8 O 3 , produced synthetically or by maceration and subsequent distillation from birch or gaultheria: used chiefly in perfumery and flavoring, and in medicine as a counterirritant in external preparations.
  • methyltransferase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of methyl groups from one molecule to another.
  • mill on the floss — a novel (1860) by George Eliot.
  • mischaracterizing — Present participle of mischaracterize.
  • miss lonelyhearts — a novel (1933) by Nathanael West.
  • monolith catalyst — A monolith catalyst is a type of catalyst whose surface is flat.
  • mont-saint-michel — a rocky islet near the coast of NW France, in an inlet of the Gulf of St. Malo: famous abbey and fortress.
  • montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
  • 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.
  • more than usually — You use more than usually to show that something shows even more of a particular quality than it normally does.
  • mother spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium bulbiferum, of tropical Africa and Australasia, the fronds often bearing bulbils that sprout into new plants while still attached, grown as an ornamental.
  • mountain viscacha — the mountain chinchilla
  • muenster (cheese) — a mild light-yellow semisoft cheese
  • myasthenia gravis — a disease of impaired transmission of motor nerve impulses, characterized by episodic muscle weakness and easy fatigability, especially of the face, tongue, neck, and respiratory muscles: caused by autoimmune destruction of acetylcholine receptors. Abbreviation: MG.
  • mystical theology — the branch of theology dealing with mysticism and mystical experiences.
  • nakhon ratchasima — a city in central Thailand.
  • natural harmonics — harmonics of a note produced on a stringed instrument by lightly touching an open or unstopped sounded string.
  • neo-malthusianism — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
  • neo-scholasticism — a contemporary application of Scholasticism to modern problems and life.
  • nightshade family — the plant family Solanaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, and vines having alternate, simple or pinnate leaves, conspicuous flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including belladonna, eggplant, nightshade, peppers of the genus Capsicum, petunia, potato, tobacco, and tomato.
  • non-thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • nonaccomplishment — Something that does not achieve the intended goal.
  • nonstoichiometric — (of a solid compound) having a composition in which the ratio of the atoms present is not a simple integer
  • nuclear chemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with nuclear reactions
  • omphalomesenteric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery.
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