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17-letter words containing n, o, m, y

  • homeland security — national defence
  • homolytic fission — the dissociation of a molecule into two neutral fragments
  • hurler's syndrome — a medical condition characterized by physical deformity and mental deficiency
  • hydrothermal vent — an opening on the floor of the sea from which hot, mineral-rich solutions issue. Compare vent1 (def 2).
  • hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
  • hyperalimentation — overfeeding.
  • hyperpigmentation — coloration, especially of the skin.
  • hypodermic needle — a hollow needle used to inject solutions subcutaneously.
  • 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.
  • i am bound to say — You can say 'I am bound to say' to introduce a statement expressing something that you find undesirable or unexpected.
  • if you don't mind — People use the expression if you don't mind when they are rejecting an offer or saying that they do not want to do something, especially when they are annoyed.
  • 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.
  • impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • improvisationally — In an improvisational way.
  • imputation system — a former taxation system in which some, or all, of the corporation tax on a company was treated as a tax credit on account of the income tax paid by its shareholders on their dividends; discontinued from 1999
  • 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.
  • income inequality — a situation in which there is great disparity in income within a society
  • incommunicability — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
  • incomprehensively — In an incomprehensive manner.
  • incompressibility — The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.
  • innominate artery — brachiocephalic artery.
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • irrigation system — a system of supplying (land) with water by means of artificial canals, ditches, etc, esp to promote the growth of food crops
  • journeyman joiner — a joiner who is qualified to work in the employment of another
  • kawasaki syndrome — a syndrome, usually afflicting children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, rashes, irritated eyes and mucous membranes, etc. with possible damage to the cardiovascular system
  • keyboard commando — (messaging)   A bulletin board user who posts authoritatively on military or combat topics, but who has never served in uniform or heard a shot fired in anger. A poseur.
  • know only by name — to be familiar with the name of but not know personally
  • knowledge economy — an economy in which information services are dominant as an area of growth
  • kyoto common lisp — (language)   (KCL) An implementation of Common Lisp by T. Yuasa <[email protected]> and M. Hagiya <[email protected]>, written in C to run under Unix-like operating systems. KCL is compiled to ANSI C. It conforms to Common Lisp as described in Guy Steele's book and is available under a licence agreement. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bug reports). Mailing list: [email protected], [email protected]
  • luminous efficacy — the quotient of the luminous flux of a radiation and its corresponding radiant flux
  • lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
  • lymphangiographic — Relating to lymphangiography.
  • lyon king of arms — the chief herald of Scotland
  • macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
  • magnetoelasticity — the phenomenon, consisting of a change in magnetic properties, exhibited by a ferromagnetic material to which stress is applied.
  • majority decision — a decision supported by more than half the people involved
  • majority-minority — relating to a population in which more than half represent social, ethnic, or racial minorities, and in which fewer members of the more socially, politically, or financially dominant group are represented: majority-minority public schools.
  • malayo-polynesian — a family of languages extending from Madagascar to the central Pacific, including Malagasy, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, and Polynesian
  • management buyout — A management buyout is the buying of a company by its managers. The abbreviation MBO is also used.
  • many-valued logic — the study of logical systems in which the truth-values that a proposition may have are not restricted to two, representing only truth and falsity
  • maraschino cherry — a cherry cooked in colored syrup and flavored with maraschino, used to garnish desserts, cocktails, etc.
  • marriage ceremony — official part of a wedding
  • melissopalynology — The study of honey and its composition.
  • membrane recovery — Membrane recovery is a process which uses membranes to obtain hydrogen from refinery fuel gas, hydrocrackers, and chemical processes such as methanol production.
  • memory management — (memory management, storage)   A collection of techniques for providing sufficient memory to one or more processes in a computer system, especially when the system does not have enough memory to satisfy all processes' requirements simultaneously. Techniques include swapping, paging and virtual memory. Memory management is usually performed mostly by a hardware memory management unit.
  • memory protection — (memory management)   A system to prevent one process corrupting the memory (or other resources) of any other, including the operating system. Memory protection usually relies on a combination of hardware (a memory management unit) and software to allocate memory to processes and handle exceptions. The effectiveness of memory protection varies from one operating system to another. In most versions of Unix it is almost impossible to corrupt another process' memory, except in some archaic implementations and Lunix (not Linux!). Under Microsoft Windows (version? hardware?) any 16 bit application(?) can circumvent the memory protection, often leading to one or more GPFs. Currently (April 1996) neither Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, nor Mac OS offer memory protection. Windows NT has it, and Mac OS System 8 will offer a form of memory protection.
  • mercury poisoning — illness caused by exposure to mercury
  • mercy otis warren — Earl, 1891–1974, U.S. lawyer and political leader: chief justice of the U.S. 1953–69.
  • method of payment — cash, credit card, cheque, etc.
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