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

  • microinstructions — Plural form of microinstruction.
  • micromanipulators — Plural form of micromanipulator.
  • mill construction — heavy, fire-resistant timber construction within masonry walls, all vertical communication being within masonry towers provided with fire doors.
  • minimum seek time — (storage)   (Or track-to-track seek time) The time it takes to move the head of a disk drive from one track to the next. The minimum seek time gives a good measure of the speed of the drive in a single-user/single-process environment where successive read/write request are largely correlated and thus if correlated data is stored in nearby cylinders most seeks are from one cylinder to the next.
  • mis en bouteilles — (of a wine) bottled by a specified château, shipper, etc.
  • miscommunications — Plural form of miscommunication.
  • missense mutation — a type of mutation to a specific protein, that results from the substitution, during translation, of one amino acid for another
  • misunderstandable — Capable of being misunderstood.
  • misunderstandings — Plural form of misunderstanding.
  • modest mussorgski — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
  • montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
  • more than usually — You use more than usually to show that something shows even more of a particular quality than it normally does.
  • most well studied — marked by or suggestive of conscious effort; not spontaneous or natural; affected: studied simplicity.
  • motion of censure — a motion by opposition parties criticizing the government
  • mount robson park — a national park in the Rocky Mountains of E British Columbia, Canada.
  • mountain sickness — illness caused by being at high altitude
  • mountain viscacha — the mountain chinchilla
  • muenster (cheese) — a mild light-yellow semisoft cheese
  • multi-nationalism — a large corporation with operations and subsidiaries in several countries.
  • multidisciplinary — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
  • multiline insurer — an insurance company that is engaged in more than two fields of insurance.
  • multimedia system — multimedia
  • multimillionaires — Plural form of multimillionaire.
  • multiple exposure — the filming of more than one scene in a single frame
  • multiple neuritis — polyneuritis.
  • multitudinousness — The state or condition of being multitudinous.
  • mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
  • munitions factory — a factory where munitions are made
  • muscae volitantes — floater (def 6).
  • musical interlude — an interval in a play, event or occasion during which music is played
  • mustard and cress — Mustard and cress is very young mustard plants and cress plants grown together and eaten in salad.
  • nasolacrimal duct — a membranous canal extending from the lacrimal sac to the nasal cavity, through which tears are discharged into the nose.
  • 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.
  • neurofibromatosis — a dominantly inherited genetic disorder characterized by flat brown patches on the skin, neurofibromas of the skin and internal organs, and in some cases skeletal deformity.
  • neurotransmission — the transmission of a nerve impulse across a synapse.
  • neurotransmissive — Relating to neurotransmission.
  • neurotransmitters — Plural form of neurotransmitter.
  • non-reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • nuclear chemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with nuclear reactions
  • olympic mountains — a mountain range in NW Washington: part of the Coast Range. Highest peak: Mount Olympus, 2427 m (7965 ft)
  • opening arguments — the statements or arguments provided by lawyers at the beginning of a trial
  • out of commission — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
  • out of harm's way — If someone or something is out of harm's way, they are in a safe place away from danger or from the possibility of being damaged.
  • out of one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • over-presumptuous — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • parents anonymous — (in Britain) an association of local voluntary self-help groups offering help through an anonymous telephone service to parents who fear they will injure their children, or who have other problems in managing their children
  • pasteur treatment — Pasteur's method of preventing certain diseases, esp. rabies, by increasing the strength of successive inoculations with a specific weakened or attenuated virus
  • personal computer — a compact computer that uses a microprocessor and is designed for individual use, as by a person in an office or at home or school, for such applications as word processing, data management, financial analysis, or computer games. Abbreviation: PC.
  • phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
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