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17-letter words containing m, y, l

  • professional army — an army of trained soldiers
  • purely and simply — You use purely and simply to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the only thing involved.
  • radial keratotomy — a surgical technique for correcting nearsightedness by making a series of spokelike incisions in the cornea to change its shape and focusing properties.
  • railway timetable — a list of railway journeys arranged according to the time when they begin and end
  • recumbent bicycle — a type of bicycle that is ridden in a reclining position
  • relative humidity — the amount of water vapor in the air, expressed as a percentage of the maximum amount that the air could hold at the given temperature; the ratio of the actual water vapor pressure to the saturation vapor pressure. Abbreviation: RH, rh.
  • relative majority — the excess of votes or seats won by the winner of an election over the runner-up when no candidate or party has more than 50 per cent
  • republic of yemen — Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
  • role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
  • scentless mayweed — a similar and related plant, Matricaria maritima, with scentless leaves
  • semi-permeability — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
  • shubra al khaymah — a city in NE Egypt, a Cairo suburb.
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • simplicity itself — If you say that something is simplicity itself, you are emphasizing that it is very simple or easy.
  • socioeconomically — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and economic factors: socioeconomic study; socioeconomic status.
  • sodium salicylate — a white, crystalline compound, C 7 H 5 NaO 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and glycerol: used in medicine as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory, and as a preservative.
  • spectrum analyser — an instrument that splits an input waveform into its frequency components, which are then displayed
  • spectrum analysis — the determination of the constitution or condition of bodies and substances by means of the spectra they produce.
  • stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • suction lipectomy — the removal of fatty tissue by making a small incision in the skin, loosening the fat layer, and withdrawing it by suction.
  • sunday supplement — a special section incorporated in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, often containing features on books, celebrities, home entertainment, gardening, and the like.
  • supply and demand — economy: basic market theory
  • supply management — business purchasing
  • symbolic assembly — (language)   An early system on the IBM 705.
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
  • terminal capacity — The terminal capacity is the volume which can be stored in a terminal (= building or area with tanks).
  • terminal velocity — Physics. the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity. the maximum velocity of a body falling through a viscous fluid.
  • the olympic flame — the flame that is symbolically lit at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia and transported by relay to the place where the Olympic Games are to be held. It is used to ignite a fire in a cauldron that will burn throughout the Games
  • the olympic torch — a torch that is symbolically lit at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia and transported by relay to the place where the Olympic Games are to be held. It is used to ignite a fire in a cauldron that will burn throughout the Games
  • the underemployed — underemployed people
  • thermoelectricity — electricity generated by heat or temperature difference, as in a thermocouple.
  • to lose your mind — If you say that someone is losing their mind, you mean that they are becoming mad.
  • to slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget it.
  • tolpuddle martyrs — six farm workers sentenced to transportation for seven years in 1834 for administering an unlawful oath to form a trade union in the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset
  • tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
  • uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • uncomprehendingly — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • unemployment line — When people talk about the unemployment line, they are talking about the state of being unemployed, especially when saying how many people are unemployed.
  • unemployment rate — percentage of population without jobs
  • unlawful assembly — a meeting of three or more people with the intent of carrying out any unlawful purpose
  • unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • variable-geometry — denoting an aircraft in which the wings are hinged to give the variable aspect ratio colloquially known as a swing-wing
  • varix lymphaticus — a similar condition affecting an artery or lymphatic vessel
  • velocity of money — the frequency with which a single unit of currency or the total money supply turns over within the economy in a given year.
  • vertical mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
  • very large memory — (architecture)   (VLM) A processor and operating system that can use more than 4GB of RAM, which is the limit for systems using 32-bit addresses. VLM architectures allow application programs and Very Large Databases with more than 4GB of data to be placed entirely in physical memory, with large performance enhancements. Some recent processors like the DEC Alpha can process 64 bits of data at a time and use addresses wider than 32 bits. (Solaris http://sun.com/solaris/64bit.html). (SGI http://sgi.com/Technology/standard/faq.html). (Unix 98 http://UNIX-systems.org/version2/whatsnew/login_64bit.html).
  • vestibular system — the sensory mechanism in the inner ear that detects movement of the head and helps to control balance
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