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17-letter words containing n, u, m, e, r, o

  • denominate number — a number associated with a unit of measurement.
  • dieu et mon droit — God and my right: motto of the Royal Arms of Great Britain
  • dining room suite — a set of furniture used in a dining room
  • document examiner — (hypertext, tool)   A high-performance hypertext system by Symbolics that provides on-line access to their user documentation.
  • emission spectrum — the continuous spectrum or pattern of bright lines or bands seen when the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a substance is passed into a spectrometer. The spectrum is characteristic of the emitting substance and the type of excitation to which it is subjected
  • enrolment figures — the numbers of people enrolling at an institution, on a course, etc
  • error of judgment — a wrong or bad decision
  • fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
  • fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
  • functional isomer — any of several structural isomers that have the same molecular formula but with the atoms connected in different ways and therefore falling into different functional groups.
  • gastrojejunostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
  • gridiron pendulum — a clock pendulum having, as part of its shaft, an arrangement of brass and steel rods having different coefficients of expansion, such that the pendulum has the same length at any temperature.
  • guglielmo marconi — Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
  • gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • hurler's syndrome — a medical condition characterized by physical deformity and mental deficiency
  • immunocompromised — having an impaired or compromised immune response; immunodeficient.
  • immunofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or using immunofluorescence.
  • immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
  • immunosuppression — the inhibition of the normal immune response because of disease, the administration of drugs, or surgery.
  • immunosuppressive — capable of causing immunosuppression: immunosuppressive drugs.
  • immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
  • in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • intercolumniation — the space between two adjacent columns, usually the clear space between the lower parts of the shafts.
  • intercommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of intercommunicate.
  • intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
  • irrational number — a number that cannot be exactly expressed as a ratio of two integers.
  • journeyman joiner — a joiner who is qualified to work in the employment of another
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • ladder tournament — a tournament in which the entrants are listed by name and rank, advancement being by means of challenging and defeating an entrant ranked one or two places higher.
  • 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.
  • limousine liberal — a wealthy left-wing person
  • lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
  • lumpenproletariat — the lowest level of the proletariat comprising unskilled workers, vagrants, and criminals and characterized by a lack of class identification and solidarity.
  • macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
  • 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.
  • management course — a course provided by an educational establishment such as a university, which teaches skills concerning the management of a company, business, etc
  • manicure scissors — scissors for manicuring or trimming the nails
  • manufactured home — a prefabricated house, assembled in modular sections.
  • margaret of anjou — 1430–82, queen of Henry VI of England.
  • maurice of nassau — Prince of Orange 1567-1625; Du. statesman & military leader
  • mensural notation — a system of musical notation of the 13th to the late 16th centuries, marked by the use of note symbols such as the longa and brevis, the absence of bar lines and ties, and the equivalence in value of one note to either two or three of the next smaller degree.
  • mercury poisoning — illness caused by exposure to mercury
  • metallofullerenes — Plural form of metallofullerene.
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • microconstituents — a microscopically small constituent of a metal or alloy.
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
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