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17-letter words containing s, u, r, n

  • jurisprudentially — In terms of jurisprudence.
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • kastor and pollux — Castor and Pollux.
  • kerguelen islands — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
  • key man insurance — Key man insurance is an insurance policy taken out by a small company on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss.
  • key-man assurance — an assurance policy taken out, esp by a small company, on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss
  • lance of courtesy — a lance having a blunt head to prevent serious injury by a jouster to an opponent.
  • 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.
  • language transfer — transfer (def 20).
  • last-in first-out — stack
  • latent strabismus — the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.
  • latitudinarianism — Tolerance of other people's views, particularly in religious context.
  • laurent's theorem — the theorem that a function that is analytic on an annulus can be represented by a Laurent series on the annulus.
  • least upper bound — an upper bound that is less than or equal to all the upper bounds of a particular set. 3 is the least upper bound of the set consisting of 1, 2, 3. Abbr.: lub.
  • lebesgue integral — an integral obtained by application of the theory of measure and more general than the Riemann integral.
  • limousine liberal — a wealthy left-wing person
  • louisiana tanager — western tanager.
  • luggage insurance — insurance against the loss of luggage while travelling
  • macro-linguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macroinstructions — Plural form of macroinstruction.
  • 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
  • mare fecunditatis — (Sea of Fertility) a dark plain in the fourth quadrant and extending into the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 160,000 sq. mi. (415,000 sq. km).
  • marquesas islands — a group of volcanic islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia. Pop: 8712 (2002). Area: 1287 sq km (497 sq miles)
  • masculine caesura — a caesura occurring immediately after a stressed or a long syllable.
  • maurice of nassau — Prince of Orange 1567-1625; Du. statesman & military leader
  • medical insurance — a type of insurance intended to cover possible future medical expenses
  • 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
  • mesembryanthemums — Plural form of mesembryanthemum.
  • metallofullerenes — Plural form of metallofullerene.
  • microconstituents — a microscopically small constituent of a metal or alloy.
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • microinstructions — Plural form of microinstruction.
  • micromanipulators — Plural form of micromanipulator.
  • midsummer madness — a temporary lapse into foolishness, senseless behavior, folly, etc., especially during the summer: His plan to become a beachcomber is midsummer madness.
  • mill construction — heavy, fire-resistant timber construction within masonry walls, all vertical communication being within masonry towers provided with fire doors.
  • misunderstandable — Capable of being misunderstood.
  • misunderstandings — Plural form of misunderstanding.
  • montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
  • more than usually — You use more than usually to show that something shows even more of a particular quality than it normally does.
  • motion of censure — a motion by opposition parties criticizing the government
  • mount robson park — a national park in the Rocky Mountains of E British Columbia, Canada.
  • muenster (cheese) — a mild light-yellow semisoft cheese
  • multidisciplinary — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
  • multiline insurer — an insurance company that is engaged in more than two fields of insurance.
  • multimillionaires — Plural form of multimillionaire.
  • multiple neuritis — polyneuritis.
  • mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
  • munitions factory — a factory where munitions are made
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