17-letter words containing n, a, m, h

hypophrygian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from B to B, with the final on E.
image enhancement — a method of improving the definition of a video picture by a computer program, which reduces the lowest grey values to black and the highest to white: used for pictures from microscopes, surveillance cameras, and scanners
immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
implosion therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
in a/the minority — If people are in a minority or in the minority, they belong to a group of people or things that form less than half of a larger group.
in the family way — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
in the market for — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
in the same canoe — of the same tribe
intermediate host — the host in which a parasite undergoes development but does not reach sexual maturity.
isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
isthmus of panama — an isthmus linking North and South America, between the Pacific and the Caribbean. Length: 676 km (420 miles). Width (at its narrowest point): 50 km (31 miles)
jammu and kashmir — official name of Kashmir (def 2).
khingan mountains — a mountain system of NE China, in W Manchuria. Highest peak: 2034 m (6673 ft)
lagrange's method — a procedure for finding maximum and minimum values of a function of several variables when the variables are restricted by additional conditions.
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.
laurent's theorem — the theorem that a function that is analytic on an annulus can be represented by a Laurent series on the annulus.
light machine gun — any air-cooled machine gun having a caliber not greater than 0.30 inches (7.6 mm).
light mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
lisp machine lisp — (language) An extension of Maclisp, now called Zetalisp.
lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
lombrosian school — a school of criminology, promulgating the theories and employing the methods developed by Lombroso.
lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
lymphangiographic — Relating to lymphangiography.
madonna and child — a representation of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus.
maintained school — a school financially supported by the state
make sense of sth — When you make sense of something, you succeed in understanding it.
make something of — to find a use for
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.
man in the street — the ordinary person; the average citizen: the political opinions of the man in the street.
man on the street — man in the street.
manchester school — a school of economists in England in the first half of the 19th century, devoted to free trade and the repeal of the Corn Law, led by Richard Cobden and John Bright.
manhattan project — U.S. History. the unofficial designation for the U.S. War Department's secret program, organized in 1942, to explore the isolation of radioactive isotopes and the production of an atomic bomb: initial research was conducted at Columbia University in Manhattan.
mann-whitney test — a statistical test of the difference between the distributions of data collected in two experimental conditions applied to unmatched groups of subjects but comparing the distributions of the ranks of the scores
manna from heaven — Bible: food from heaven
manufactured home — a prefabricated house, assembled in modular sections.
maraschino cherry — a cherry cooked in colored syrup and flavored with maraschino, used to garnish desserts, cocktails, etc.
margaret hamilton — (person) (born 1936-08-17) A computer scientist, systems engineer and business owner, credited with coining the term software engineering. Margaret Hamilton published over 130 papers, proceedings and reports about the 60 projects and six major programs in which she has been involved. In 1965 she became Director of Software Programming at MIT's Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. At NASA, Hamilton pioneered the Apollo on-board guidance software that navigated to and landed on the Moon and formed the basis for software used in later missions. At the time, programming was a hands-on, engineering descipline; computer science and software engineering barely existed. Hamilton produced innovations in system design and software development, enterprise and process modelling, development paradigms, formal systems modelling languages, system-oriented objects for systems modelling and development, automated life-cycle environments, software reliability, software reuse, domain analysis, correctness by built-in language properties, open architecture techniques for robust systems, full life-cycle automation, quality assurance, seamless integration, error detection and recovery, man-machine interface systems, operating systems, end-to-end testing and life-cycle management. She developed concepts of asynchronous software, priority scheduling and Human-in-the-loop decision capability, which became the foundation for modern, ultra-reliable software design. The Apollo 11 moon landing would have aborted when spurious data threatened to overload the computer, but thanks to the innovative asynchronous, priority based scheduling, it eliminated the unnecessary processing and completed the landing successfully. In 1986, she founded Hamilton Technologies, Inc., developed around the Universal Systems Language and her systems and software design paradigm of Development Before the Fact (DBTF).
martha's vineyard — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. About 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
mascarpone cheese — a very rich, white cream cheese of Italy
mass merchandiser — a retailer or retail store that seeks to sell large quantities of goods quickly through such means as discounting, customer self-service, or unadorned display and packaging, as in a warehouse.
mechanical digger — a machine used for excavation
mechanical pencil — a pencil for holding lead that can be extended by mechanical means.
mechanical tissue — a plant tissue made up of hard, thick-walled cells that add strength to an organ
mechanoelectrical — Describing the production of electricity by mechanical motion; especially in a transducer.
mental arithmetic — sums done in your head
merchant of death — a company, nation, or person that sells military arms on the international market, usually to the highest bidder and without scruple or regard for political ramifications.
merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
mesembryanthemums — Plural form of mesembryanthemum.
message switching — store and forward
methemoglobinemia — (medicine) A form of toxic anemia characterized by the presence of methemoglobin in the blood.

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