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16-letter words containing s, i, m, u

  • if you must know — You say 'if you must know' when you tell someone something that you did not want them to know and you want to suggest that you think they were wrong to ask you about it.
  • image consultant — imagemaker.
  • immeasurableness — The state or condition of being immeasurable.
  • immersion course — an educational course that teaches a foreign language, and in which the lessons are entirely conducted in the foreign language
  • immunocompromise — (medicine) The state of having a compromised immune system.
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • immunosuppressed — the inhibition of the normal immune response because of disease, the administration of drugs, or surgery.
  • immunosuppressor — (pharmacology) An immunosuppressive agent.
  • impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
  • impact structure — a large geologic formation, as a crater, created by a comet's or meteor's collision with a planet.
  • imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • in large measure — If something is true in some measure or in large measure, it is partly or mostly true.
  • incidental music — music intended primarily to point up or accompany parts of the action of a play or to serve as transitional material between scenes.
  • incombustibility — The quality or state of being incombustible.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • incommodiousness — The state or quality of being incommodious.
  • indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
  • infantile autism — a disorder appearing in children before the age of two and a half, characterized by lack of interest in others, impaired communication skills, and bizarre behavior, as ritualistic acts and excessive attachment to objects.
  • inharmoniousness — The quality of being inharmonious.
  • inmos transputer — transputer
  • institutionalism — the system of institutions or organized societies devoted to public, charitable, or similar purposes.
  • instrument panel — Also called instrument board. a panel on which are mounted an array of dials, lights, and gauges that monitor the performance of a machine or device, as an airplane.
  • instrumentalists — Plural form of instrumentalist.
  • insurance scheme — a scheme that provides insurance
  • interculturalism — The philosophy of exchanges between cultural groups within a society.
  • interim accounts — accounts published in the course of the financial year
  • investment trust — a company that invests its funds in other companies and issues its own securities against these investments.
  • karelian isthmus — a narrow strip of land between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland, in the NW Russian Federation.
  • keyman insurance — life insurance taken out by a business firm on an essential or very important employee, with the firm as beneficiary.
  • kiss and make up — be reconciled
  • kolyma mountains — a mountain range in NE Siberia, Russia, near the Sea of Okhotsk, rising to over 6000 feet (1830 meters).
  • kunlun mountains — mountain system in W China, between Tibet & Xinjiang: highest peak, c. 25,300 ft (7,711 m)
  • latissimus dorsi — a broad, flat muscle on each side of the midback, the action of which draws the arm backward and downward and rotates the front of the arm toward the body.
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
  • limited-stop bus — a bus which only stops at a small number of predetermined stops, rather than on request
  • lines per minute — (unit)   (lpm) A unit used to measure line printer throughput.
  • lithium stearate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, LiC 18 H 35 O 2 , used chiefly in cosmetics, in plastics, and as a lubricant in powder metallurgy.
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • luminosity class — a classification of stars of a given spectral type according to their luminosity, breaking them down into dwarfs, giants, and supergiants.
  • lymphatic tissue — tissue, such as the lymph nodes, tonsils, spleen, and thymus, that produces lymphocytes
  • maclaurin series — a Taylor series in which the reference point is zero.
  • macro-linguistic — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macroinstruction — macro (def 5).
  • macrolinguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • magnetoacoustics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of physics studying the effects of magnetism on acoustics or their interaction.
  • mail-order house — a retail firm that conducts its business by receiving orders and shipping its merchandise through the mail and that supplies its customers with catalogs, circulars, etc.
  • make an issue of — If you make an issue of something, you try to make other people think about it or discuss it, because you are concerned or annoyed about it.
  • malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
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