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17-letter words containing r, a, i, l, s

  • louisiana tanager — western tanager.
  • luggage insurance — insurance against the loss of luggage while travelling
  • lyon king of arms — the chief herald of Scotland
  • macro-linguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • mail users' shell — (messaging)   (mush) A MUA for Unix and MS-DOS. It has both line-mode and full-screen interfaces as well as a SunView interface. mush provides a very powerful shell interface with a csh-like scripting language, plenty of environment variables, command-line aliases, filename completion, conditionals, and command piping.
  • mains electricity — electricity supplied to a building through wires
  • maison de moliere — Comédie Française.
  • maladministration — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.
  • malagasy republic — former name of Madagascar.
  • marital relations — a euphemistic term for sexual intercourse between married partners
  • marquesas islands — a group of volcanic islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia. Pop: 8712 (2002). Area: 1287 sq km (497 sq miles)
  • mascarene islands — a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar, including Mauritius, Reunion, and Rodrigues.
  • masculine caesura — a caesura occurring immediately after a stressed or a long syllable.
  • materialistically — excessively concerned with physical comforts or the acquisition of wealth and material possessions, rather than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
  • materials science — the study of the characteristics and uses of various materials, as glass, plastics, and metals.
  • maternal instinct — motherly urge to protect and nurture
  • medical insurance — a type of insurance intended to cover possible future medical expenses
  • meissen porcelain — Dresden china.
  • 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.
  • mercantile system — a system of political and economic policy, evolving with the modern national state and seeking to secure a nation's political and economic supremacy in its rivalry with other states. According to this system, money was regarded as a store of wealth, and the goal of a state was the accumulation of precious metals, by exporting the largest possible quantity of its products and importing as little as possible, thus establishing a favorable balance of trade.
  • messier catalogue — a catalogue of 103 nonstellar objects, such as nebulae and galaxies, prepared in 1781–86. An object is referred to by its number in this catalogue, for example the Andromeda Galaxy is referred to as M31
  • metalloproteinase — (enzyme) Any of several proteinases that have a metal atom (often zinc) at their active centre.
  • microdistillation — the distillation of minute quantities of material.
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • micromanipulators — Plural form of micromanipulator.
  • middle-age spread — an increase in bulk, especially in the waist and buttocks, associated with the onset of middle age and the body's decreasing ability to metabolize calories efficiently.
  • ministering angel — a spirit who is believed to look after the needs of a particular person or group
  • miss lonelyhearts — a novel (1933) by Nathanael West.
  • misunderstandable — Capable of being misunderstood.
  • multidisciplinary — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
  • multimillionaires — Plural form of multimillionaire.
  • muscle dysmorphia — a mental disorder primarily affecting males, characterized by obsessions about a perceived lack of muscularity, leading to compulsive exercising, use of anabolic steroids, etc. Compare body dysmorphic disorder.
  • musical interlude — an interval in a play, event or occasion during which music is played
  • naked singularity — an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole
  • nashville warbler — a North American wood warbler, Vermivora ruficapilla, having a gray head, an olive-green back, and yellow underparts.
  • nasolacrimal duct — a membranous canal extending from the lacrimal sac to the nasal cavity, through which tears are discharged into the nose.
  • national seashore — an area of seacoast set aside and maintained by the U.S. government for purposes of recreation or wildlife study.
  • national security — defence of a country
  • natural harmonics — harmonics of a note produced on a stringed instrument by lightly touching an open or unstopped sounded string.
  • natural selection — the process by which forms of life having traits that better enable them to adapt to specific environmental pressures, as predators, changes in climate, or competition for food or mates, will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers than others of their kind, thus ensuring the perpetuation of those favorable traits in succeeding generations.
  • naval air station — military airbase for the navy
  • nicholas bourbaki — the pseudonym of a group of mainly French mathematicians that, since 1939, has been producing a monumental work on advanced mathematics, Eléments de Mathématique
  • non-controversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • non-instructional — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
  • non-materialistic — excessively concerned with physical comforts or the acquisition of wealth and material possessions, rather than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
  • non-stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • non-thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • north lanarkshire — a council area of central Scotland: consists mainly of the NE part of the historical county of Lanarkshire; formerly (1974–96) part of Strathclyde Region: engineering and metalworking industries. Administrative centre: Motherwell. Pop: 321 820 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
  • nuclear chemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with nuclear reactions
  • nuclear isomerism — isomerism (def 2).
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