19-letter words containing s, i, m, l, n
- jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
- jamaica honeysuckle — a climbing vine, Passiflora laurifolia, of tropical America, having red-spotted white flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide, with a white and violet-colored crown, and edible yellow fruit.
- james' dsssl engine — (text, tool) (JADE) A DSSSL tool by James J. Clark. Jade is an implementation of the DSSSL style language for Unix and Microsoft Windows. It can turn the SGML source of the DSSSL standard into an RTF file of about 200 pages using a fairly complex DSSSL specification.
- jump to conclusions — to come to a conclusion prematurely, without sufficient thought or on incomplete evidence
- jumping bristletail — any of several thysanuran insects that live in dark, warm, moist places, as under leaves, bark, and dead tree trunks and along rocky seacoasts, and are active jumpers, making erratic leaps when disturbed.
- jumping plant louse — any of numerous lice, of the family Psyllidae, that feed on plant juices and are sometimes pests of fruits and vegetables.
- king william island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, in the W Nunavut Territory, Canada. 5062 sq. mi. (13,111 sq. km).
- knights of columbus — an international fraternal and benevolent organization of Roman Catholic men, founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882.
- komandorski islands — a group of islands in the Bering Sea, in NE Russia, E of the Kamchatka Peninsula: U.S.-Japan naval battle, 1943.
- lateral line system — a system of sensory organs in fishes and aquatic amphibians consisting of a series of cells on the head and along the sides of the body that detect pressure changes and vibrations
- league championship — the competition to become league champions
- let someone have it — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
- leveling instrument — an instrument used to establish a horizontal line of sight, usually by means of a spirit level.
- licensing agreement — an agreement that sets out the fees and terms of use for something available only under licence
- limit of resolution — the capacity of an optical system to resolve point objects as separate images.
- limited partnership — a partnership formed by at least one general partner and at least one special partner.
- loss-of-containment — Loss-of-containment happens when a fluid which is usually contained somewhere escapes from that place.
- luminous efficiency — the perceived brightness of light as a ratio of the total luminous flux to total radiant flux of the source; a measure of brightness obtained by dividing the source's luminous flux by the consumption of its energy.
- lyon office of arms — Heralds' Office.
- lytham saint anne's — a resort in NW England, in Lancashire on the Irish Sea. Pop: 41 327 (2001)
- machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
- mail transfer agent — Message Transfer Agent
- main-topgallantmast — the mast next above the main-topmast.
- male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
- malleable cast iron — white cast iron that has been malleablized.
- manned space flight — space travel in vehicles with a human crew
- manual transmission — an automotive transmission in which the driver shifts gears manually.
- marriage settlement — a formal agreement made before marriage disposing of the property of the couple to be married
- massive retaliation — a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
- mechanical scanning — Electronics. a technique for varying the sector covered by a transmitting or receiving antenna by rotating it.
- melodic minor scale — minor scale (def 2).
- meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
- mermaid's wineglass — a colony of green algae, Acetabularia crenulata, of warm seas, having a cup-shaped cap on a slender stalk.
- mid-autumn festival — a Chinese festival that is held to celebrate the end of the summer harvest, when the crops have been gathered.
- mild silver protein — a compound of silver and a protein, applied to mucous membranes as a mild antiseptic.
- miscellaneous items — various kinds of thing, esp small purchases
- missing fundamental — a tone, not present in the sound received by the ear, whose pitch is that of the difference between the two tones that are sounded
- moses-in-the-cradle — a plant, Rhoeo spathacea, native to the West Indies and Central America, having leaves with purple undersides and white flowers enclosed in a boat-shaped envelope formed by two bracts.
- mount desert island — an island off the coast of E central Maine: summer resort; forms part of Acadia National Park. 14 miles (23 km) long; 8 miles (13 km) wide.
- mousseline de laine — a thin worsted fabric, often having a printed pattern.
- multidimensionality — The property of being multidimensional.
- multimedia analysis — Multimedia analysis is the consideration of all possible risks relating to pollution and waste management.
- multiple-entry visa — a visa that permits the holder to enter a country several times
- multiplication sign — Arithmetic. the symbol (⋅), (×), or (∗) between two mathematical expressions, denoting multiplication of the second expression by the first. In certain algebraic notations the sign is suppressed and multiplication is indicated by immediate juxtaposition or contiguity, as in ab.
- mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
- mutual masturbation — the act of two or more people masturbating each other
- mutual savings bank — a noncapitalized savings bank that distributes its net earnings to depositors.
- nail polish remover — solvent for removing nail polish
- national serviceman — a soldier undertaking compulsory military service
- network file system — (networking, operating system) (NFS) A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems, and defined in RFC 1094, which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (UDP) in order to make it stateless. See Nightmare File System, WebNFS.