18-letter words containing m, u, t, a, i
- preantepenultimate — third from the end.
- pressure altimeter — an aneroid barometer adapted for measuring altitude by converting the indicated atmospheric pressure to altitude according to a standard relationship.
- presumption of law — a presumption based upon a policy of law or a general rule and not upon the facts or evidence in an individual case.
- primus inter pares — (of males) first among equals.
- principal argument — the radian measure of the argument between −π and π of a complex number. Compare argument (def 8c).
- production company — an organization which produces, films, plays, television or radio programmes
- production manager — a supervisor of the budget, crew and other details in the production of a film or play
- pseudo-symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- public examination — an examination, such as a GCSE exam, that is set by a central examining board
- publicity campaign — an effort to convey information to the public
- pulmonic airstream — a current of lung air set in motion by the respiratory muscles in the production of speech.
- punishment beating — a form of corporal punishment carried out by a paramilitary organization on a member of another sectarian organization, usually in Northern Ireland
- pygmy hippopotamus — a small hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis, of forests and swamps in western Africa.
- pyramus and thisbe — (in Greek legend) two lovers of Babylon: Pyramus, wrongly supposing Thisbe to be dead, killed himself and she, encountering him in his death throes, did the same
- quantum efficiency — the number of electrons released by a photocell per photon of incident radiation of a given energy
- quantum statistics — the branch of statistical mechanics that incorporates quantum mechanics.
- quartz-iodine lamp — a type of tungsten-halogen lamp containing small amounts of iodine and having a quartz envelope, operating at high temperature and producing an intense light for use in car headlamps, etc
- quasi-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- quick off the mark — If you are quick off the mark, you are quick to understand or respond to something. If you are slow off the mark, you are slow to understand or respond to something.
- quinacrine mustard — a nitrogen mustard derived from mepacrine and used as a stain for chromosomes
- radiocommunication — communication by means of radio waves
- real-time computer — a computer that can process data or information almost immediately
- reciprocating pump — A reciprocating pump is a pump which uses a backward and forward movement to move a fluid.
- recruitment agency — company that places job candidates
- residual magnetism — remanence.
- resuscitation room — an intensive care unit
- roman architecture — buildings in style of ancient Rome
- running commentary — non-stop description of sth
- running martingale — martingale (def 2).
- rural municipality — any lightly settled area in Canada lacking a local elected government and administered directly by a provincial government.
- sampling equipment — Sampling equipment is equipment which is used to remove small amounts of something for analysis and monitoring.
- san juan mountains — a mountain range in SW Colorado and N New Mexico: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak: Uncompahgre Peak, 4363 m (14 314 ft)
- saturation bombing — intense area bombing intended to destroy everything in the target area.
- sault sainte marie — the rapids of the St. Marys River, between NE Michigan and Ontario, Canada.
- second triumvirate — the coalition and joint rule of the Roman Empire by Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian, begun in 43 bc
- security agreement — business: contract
- simple enumeration — a procedure for arriving at empirical generalizations by haphazard accumulation of positive instances.
- ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
- small claims court — a special court established to handle small claims or debts, usually without the services of lawyers.
- small outline dimm — (storage) (SO-DIMM) A smaller kind of DIMM with 72 pins (supporting 32-bit transfers) or 144 pins (64-bit transfers). Regular DIMMs have 168 pins and support 64-bit transfers. Being roughly half the size of the regular DIMM, SO-DIMMs are often used in notebook computers.
- small-claims court — a special court established to handle small claims or debts, usually without the services of lawyers.
- sodium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, in powder or granules, NaHCO 3 , usually prepared by the reaction of soda ash with carbon dioxide or obtained from the intermediate product of the Solvay process by purification: used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium salts, baking powder, and beverages, as a laboratory reagent, as a fire extinguisher, and in medicine as an antacid.
- sodium tetraborate — borax1 .
- sodium thiocyanate — a white powder or colorless, deliquescent crystals, NaSCN, used chiefly in organic synthesis and in medicine in the treatment of hypertension.
- sodium thiosulfate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, Na 2 S 2 O 3 ⋅5H 2 O, used as a bleach and in photography as a fixing agent.
- southampton island — an island in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories at the entrance to Hudson Bay. 19,100 sq. mi. (49,470 sq. km).
- specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
- status asthmaticus — a severe attack of asthma in which the patient may die from respiratory failure if not treated with inhaled oxygen or other appropriate measures
- stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
- subatomic particle — physics: