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19-letter words containing s, m, a, l, o

  • humanist technology — (philosophy)   Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
  • hypercholesteraemia — (medicine) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
  • hypocholesterolemia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
  • immunohistochemical — (biology) Of, pertaining to, or by means of immunohistochemistry, the use of immunological techniques to study the chemistry of tissues.
  • impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
  • incommensurableness — (rare) Incommensurability.
  • informal settlement — a squatter camp
  • instrumentalisation — (philosophy) The treatment of an idea as an instrument that functions as a guide to action.
  • instrumentalization — Alternative spelling of instrumentalisation.
  • intermediate school — a school for pupils in grades 4 through 6.
  • internal-combustion — of or relating to an internal-combustion engine.
  • interval estimation — the process of estimating a parameter of a given population by specifying an interval of values and the probability that the true value of the parameter falls within this interval.
  • isthmus of san blas — the narrowest part of the Isthmus of Panama. Width: about 50 km (30 miles)
  • 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 gould cozzens — James Gould, 1903–78, U.S. novelist.
  • jerusalem artichoke — Also called girasol. a sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, having edible, tuberous, underground stems or rootstocks.
  • jumping plant louse — any of numerous lice, of the family Psyllidae, that feed on plant juices and are sometimes pests of fruits and vegetables.
  • komandorski islands — a group of islands in the Bering Sea, in NE Russia, E of the Kamchatka Peninsula: U.S.-Japan naval battle, 1943.
  • lay down one's arms — to stop fighting; surrender
  • lead someone astray — If someone or something leads you astray, they make you believe something that is not true, causing you to make a wrong decision.
  • league championship — the competition to become league champions
  • leave someone alone — to permit to stay or be alone
  • let someone have it — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
  • lobster-tail helmet — a burgonet fitted with a long, articulated tail of lames for protecting the nape of the neck, worn by cavalry in the 17th century.
  • loss-of-containment — Loss-of-containment happens when a fluid which is usually contained somewhere escapes from that place.
  • lumholtz's kangaroo — boongary.
  • lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
  • lyon office of arms — Heralds' Office.
  • machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
  • maestro di cappella — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp a private one attached to the palace of a prince in Italy during the baroque period
  • main-topgallantmast — the mast next above the main-topmast.
  • make oneself scarce — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
  • malicious falsehood — a lie told by someone who knows the lie is false or knows it will do harm to the person it is concerning
  • malleable cast iron — white cast iron that has been malleablized.
  • manual transmission — an automotive transmission in which the driver shifts gears manually.
  • mary wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
  • massive retaliation — a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
  • master of the rolls — (in England and Wales) the judge who presides over the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and who was formerly Keeper of the Records at the Public Record Office
  • melodic minor scale — minor scale (def 2).
  • memory like a sieve — a very poor memory
  • mendel's second law — the principle, originated by Gregor Mendel, stating that when two or more characteristics are inherited, individual hereditary factors assort independently during gamete production, giving different traits an equal opportunity of occurring together.
  • meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
  • metatarsophalangeal — (anatomy) Relating to the metatarsus and phalange.
  • meter-candle-second — a unit of light-exposure equivalent to one lux for one second.
  • miracle of st. mark — a painting (1548) by Tintoretto.
  • miscellaneous items — various kinds of thing, esp small purchases
  • molecular astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the study of molecules in space.
  • molecular biologist — a specialist in the study of biological phenomena at the molecular level
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