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17-letter words containing s, y, m

  • absolute humidity — the humidity of the atmosphere, usually expressed as the number of grams of water contained in 1 cubic metre of air
  • absolute majority — If a political party wins an absolute majority, they obtain more seats or votes than the total number of seats or votes gained by their opponents in an election.
  • absolute monarchy — a monarchy without constitutional limits
  • absolute monopoly — a market situation in which there is only one supplier of a good or service for which there is no acceptable substitute.
  • accessory mineral — See at accessory (def 7).
  • accessory pigment — any pigment in plants that can absorb light energy and pass the electrons along to the primary pigment which starts the process of photosynthesis.
  • accounting system — the way in which a company keeps its accounts
  • admiralty islands — a group of about 40 volcanic and coral islands in the SW Pacific, part of Papua New Guinea, in the Bismarck Archipelago: main island: Manus. Pop (whole province): 43 589 (2000). Area: about 2000 sq km (800 sq miles)
  • almost everywhere — everywhere in a given set except on a subset with measure zero. Abbreviation: a.e.
  • amoebic dysentery — inflammation of the intestines caused by the parasitic amoeba Endamoeba histolytica
  • analytical cubism — the early phase of cubism, chiefly characterized by a pronounced use of geometric shapes and by a tendency toward a monochromatic use of color.
  • anti-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • armaments factory — a factory for producing armaments
  • asperger syndrome — a developmental disorder characterized by severely impaired social skills, repetitive behaviors, and often, a narrow set of interests, but not involving delayed development of linguistic and cognitive abilities: now considered one of the autism spectrum disorders.
  • assembly district — one of a fixed number of districts into which a state is divided, each district electing one member to the lower house of the state legislature.
  • assembly language — a low-level programming language that allows a programmer complete control of the machine code to be generated
  • astronomical year — year (def 4b).
  • asymmetrical bars — a set of parallel bars, having one bar fixed at 230 cm (7 ft, 6 in) and the other at 150 cm (4 ft, 11 in), used by women gymnasts
  • autonomous syntax — an approach of generative grammar in which the syntactic component of a grammar is viewed as existing or operating independently of the semantic component and abstract syntactic representation is not equivalent to semantic representation.
  • autonomous system — (networking, routing)   (AS) A collection of routers under a single administrative authority, using a common Interior Gateway Protocol for routing packets.
  • babi yar symphony — a symphony (1962) by Dimitri Dimitrievich Shostakovich.
  • baby-doll pyjamas — frilly pyjamas with short pants and no sleeves
  • be that as it may — You say 'Be that as it may' when you want to move onto another subject or go further with the discussion, without deciding whether what has just been said is right or wrong.
  • beyond comparison — outstanding, without equal
  • bicycle motocross — a bicycle race over a rough cross-country course, usually consisting of jumps, obstacles, and turns. Abbreviation: BMX.
  • bitmapped display — bitmap display
  • blow someone away — to kill by shooting
  • blue dot syndrome — (graphics, jargon)   The inability to display an image file or text embedded in an image file on your monitor.
  • bull's-eye mirror — a circular, convex, ornamental mirror.
  • by the same token — You use by the same token to introduce a statement that you think is true for the same reasons that were given for a previous statement.
  • campus university — a university in which the buildings, often including shops and cafés, are all on one site
  • case-study method — Also called case-study method [keys-stuhd-ee] /ˈkeɪsˈstʌd i/ (Show IPA). the teaching or elucidation of a subject or issue through analysis and discussion of actual cases, as in business education.
  • cholecystectomies — Plural form of cholecystectomy.
  • circumscriptively — In a circumscriptive manner.
  • circumstantiality — the quality of being circumstantial
  • colloid chemistry — the study of colloids.
  • comedy of manners — a comedy dealing with the way of life and foibles of a social group
  • comity of nations — the friendly recognition accorded by one nation to the laws and usages of another
  • commodity markets — stock markets in which commodities are traded
  • community service — Community service is unpaid work that criminals sometimes do as a punishment instead of being sent to prison.
  • community singing — singing, esp of hymns, by a large gathering of people
  • company secretary — A company secretary is a person whose job within a company is to keep the legal affairs, accounts, and administration in order.
  • comprehensibility — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • computer security — security
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
  • coordinate system — a system of coordinates that uses numbers to represent a point, line, or the like.
  • copernican system — the theory published in 1543 by Copernicus which stated that the earth and the planets rotated around the sun and which opposed the Ptolemaic system
  • costume jewellery — Costume jewellery is jewellery made from cheap materials.
  • criminally insane — habitually criminal because of a psychological illness

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