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19-letter words containing m, u, e, s

  • hop, step, and jump — triple jump.
  • housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
  • human rights abuses — acts that contravene human rights
  • human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
  • humanist technology — (philosophy)   Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
  • immunocytochemistry — the detection of chemical components of cells by means of antibodies coupled to substances that can be made visible.
  • immunohistochemical — (biology) Of, pertaining to, or by means of immunohistochemistry, the use of immunological techniques to study the chemistry of tissues.
  • imperial war museum — a museum in London, founded in 1920, containing material related to military operations involving British and Commonwealth forces since 1914
  • in particular terms — If you say something in particular terms, you say it using a particular type or level of language or using language which clearly shows your attitude.
  • incommensurableness — (rare) Incommensurability.
  • indemnity insurance — insurance covering against damage or loss
  • industrial medicine — the study and practice of the health care of employees of large organizations, including measures to prevent accidents, industrial diseases, and stress in the workforce and to monitor the health of executives
  • instrumentalisation — (philosophy) The treatment of an idea as an instrument that functions as a guide to action.
  • instrumentalization — Alternative spelling of instrumentalisation.
  • insulating material — anything that is used as insulation
  • internal-combustion — of or relating to an internal-combustion engine.
  • interstellar medium — the matter occurring between the stars of our Galaxy, largely in the spiral arms, and consisting mainly of huge clouds of ionized, neutral, or molecular hydrogen
  • investment compound — investment (def 11).
  • isidorus of miletus — flourished 6th century a.d, Byzantine engineer. He was one of the architects of Hagia Sophia; (originally an Orthodox cathedral and currently a museum in Istanbul, Turkey).
  • jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
  • jamaica honeysuckle — a climbing vine, Passiflora laurifolia, of tropical America, having red-spotted white flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide, with a white and violet-colored crown, and edible yellow fruit.
  • james gould cozzens — James Gould, 1903–78, U.S. novelist.
  • jerusalem artichoke — Also called girasol. a sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, having edible, tuberous, underground stems or rootstocks.
  • johannes damascenus — Johannes [joh-han-eez,, -is] /dʒoʊˈhæn iz,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), John of Damascus, Saint.
  • jumping bristletail — any of several thysanuran insects that live in dark, warm, moist places, as under leaves, bark, and dead tree trunks and along rocky seacoasts, and are active jumpers, making erratic leaps when disturbed.
  • jumping plant louse — any of numerous lice, of the family Psyllidae, that feed on plant juices and are sometimes pests of fruits and vegetables.
  • keyboard instrument — any musical instrument that is played using a keyboard
  • large munsterlander — a strongly built gun dog with a long dense black-and-white coat
  • league championship — the competition to become league champions
  • leveling instrument — an instrument used to establish a horizontal line of sight, usually by means of a spirit level.
  • life-support system — A life-support system is the same as a life-support machine.
  • limit of resolution — the capacity of an optical system to resolve point objects as separate images.
  • liouville's theorem — the theorem that every function of a complex variable, bounded and differentiable for all finite values of the variable, is a constant function.
  • luminous efficiency — the perceived brightness of light as a ratio of the total luminous flux to total radiant flux of the source; a measure of brightness obtained by dividing the source's luminous flux by the consumption of its energy.
  • lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
  • machine instruction — (programming)   The smallest element of a machine code program.
  • magnesium carbonate — a white powder, MgCO 3 , insoluble in water and alcohol, soluble in acids, used in dentifrices and cosmetics, in medicine as an antacid, and as a refractory material.
  • magnesium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, Mg(OH) 2 , used chiefly in medicine as an antacid and as a laxative.
  • make no bones about — Anatomy, Zoology. one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate. the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
  • male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
  • malicious falsehood — a lie told by someone who knows the lie is false or knows it will do harm to the person it is concerning
  • manchester autocode — (language, history)   The predecessor of Mercury Autocode.
  • master of foxhounds — the person responsible for the conduct of a fox hunt and to whom all members of the hunt and its staff are responsible. Abbreviation: M.F.H.
  • means of production — resources: equipment, workers
  • measure for measure — a comedy (1604) by Shakespeare.
  • membership function — fuzzy subset
  • mid-autumn festival — a Chinese festival that is held to celebrate the end of the summer harvest, when the crops have been gathered.
  • miniature schnauzer — one of a German breed of sturdily built terriers resembling a smaller version of the standard schnauzer, having a wiry, pepper-and-salt, black, or black-and-silver coat, a rectangular head, bushy whiskers, and a docked tail, and originally developed as a farm dog but now raised primarily as a pet.
  • miscellaneous items — various kinds of thing, esp small purchases
  • missing fundamental — a tone, not present in the sound received by the ear, whose pitch is that of the difference between the two tones that are sounded
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