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17-letter words containing m, u, r, e

  • in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
  • incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
  • indefinite number — a variable or unspecified number.
  • instrument flying — the control and navigation of an aircraft by reference to its gauges, with no or only limited visual reference outside the cockpit.
  • instrumentalities — Plural form of instrumentality.
  • insulin treatment — treatment of diabetes with insulin
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • insurance premium — payment on an insurance policy
  • intercolumniation — the space between two adjacent columns, usually the clear space between the lower parts of the shafts.
  • intercommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of intercommunicate.
  • intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
  • irrational number — a number that cannot be exactly expressed as a ratio of two integers.
  • jerusalem cricket — a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper, Stenopelmatus fuscus, occuring chiefly in loose soil and sand along the Pacific coast of the U.S.
  • journeyman joiner — a joiner who is qualified to work in the employment of another
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • jump trace buffer — (JTB) A feature of some pipelined processors (e.g. Amulet, Pentium?) which stores the source and destination addresses of the last few branch instuctions executed. When a branch instruction is fetched, its source is looked for in the JTB. If found, the next instuction fetch will be from the previous destination of that branch. If it turns out that the branch shouldn't have been taken this time, then the pipeline is flushed. This means that in a tight loop it is not necessary to flush the pipeline every time you jump back to the start.
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • key man insurance — Key man insurance is an insurance policy taken out by a small company on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss.
  • key-man assurance — an assurance policy taken out, esp by a small company, on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss
  • ladder tournament — a tournament in which the entrants are listed by name and rank, advancement being by means of challenging and defeating an entrant ranked one or two places higher.
  • lambdoidal suture — the lambda-shaped seam or line of joining between the occipital and two parietal bones at the back part of the skull.
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • latent strabismus — the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.
  • laurent's theorem — the theorem that a function that is analytic on an annulus can be represented by a Laurent series on the annulus.
  • le morte d'arthur — a compilation and translation of French Arthurian romances by Sir Thomas Malory, printed by Caxton in 1485.
  • letters of marque — a former government document authorizing an individual to make reprisals on the subjects of an enemy nation, specif. to arm a ship and capture enemy merchant ships and cargo
  • limousine liberal — a wealthy left-wing person
  • liquid petrolatum — mineral oil.
  • lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
  • lithium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound, LiOH, used to absorb carbon dioxide, especially in spacesuits.
  • lumpenproletariat — the lowest level of the proletariat comprising unskilled workers, vagrants, and criminals and characterized by a lack of class identification and solidarity.
  • macfarlane burnet — Sir (Frank) Macfarlane [muh k-fahr-luh n] /məkˈfɑr lən/ (Show IPA), 1899–1985, Australian physician: Nobel Prize in Physiology 1960.
  • macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
  • mail users' shell — (messaging)   (mush) A MUA for Unix and MS-DOS. It has both line-mode and full-screen interfaces as well as a SunView interface. mush provides a very powerful shell interface with a csh-like scripting language, plenty of environment variables, command-line aliases, filename completion, conditionals, and command piping.
  • malagasy republic — former name of Madagascar.
  • man enough to/for — If you say that a man is man enough to do something, you mean that he has the necessary courage or ability to do it.
  • management course — a course provided by an educational establishment such as a university, which teaches skills concerning the management of a company, business, etc
  • manicure scissors — scissors for manicuring or trimming the nails
  • manual typewriter — a keyboard machine, operated entirely by hand, for writing mechanically in characters resembling print
  • manufactured home — a prefabricated house, assembled in modular sections.
  • mare fecunditatis — (Sea of Fertility) a dark plain in the fourth quadrant and extending into the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 160,000 sq. mi. (415,000 sq. km).
  • margaret of anjou — 1430–82, queen of Henry VI of England.
  • marquesas islands — a group of volcanic islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia. Pop: 8712 (2002). Area: 1287 sq km (497 sq miles)
  • marriage equality — the state of having the same rights and responsibilities of marriage as others, regardless of one's sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • marriage guidance — counselling for married couples
  • masculine caesura — a caesura occurring immediately after a stressed or a long syllable.
  • maurice chevalier — Maurice (Auguste) [maw-rees aw-guh st;; French moh-rees oh-gyst] /mɔˈris ˈɔ gəst;; French moʊˈris oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1888–1972, French actor and singer.
  • maurice of nassau — Prince of Orange 1567-1625; Du. statesman & military leader
  • maximum principle — the theorem that a function of a complex variable that is analytic in a domain and on its boundary attains its maximum absolute value on the boundary.
  • medical insurance — a type of insurance intended to cover possible future medical expenses
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