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

  • complement clause — a subordinate clause that functions as the subject, direct object, or prepositional object of a verb, as that you like it in I'm surprised that you like it.
  • compound interest — Compound interest is interest that is calculated both on an original sum of money and on interest which has previously been added to the sum. Compare simple interest.
  • compound sentence — a sentence containing at least two coordinate clauses
  • concurrent scheme — (language)   A parallel Lisp, for the Mayfly by M. Swanson .
  • consensus gentium — agreement of the people.
  • consequent stream — a stream the course of which was determined by the original slope of the land.
  • constitutionalism — the principles, spirit, or system of government in accord with a constitution, esp a written constitution
  • consumer advocate — consumerist (def 1).
  • consumer research — business: investigation of behaviors
  • consumer sampling — a research technique in which targeted consumers are polled or tested for their receptiveness to a product or service
  • consumer spending — the percentage of an economy that is accounted for by what consumers spend
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • consumer-advocate — Also called consumer advocate. a person who is dedicated to protecting and promoting the welfare and rights of consumers.
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • corpus cavernosum — either of two masses of erectile tissue in the penis of mammals
  • corpus spongiosum — a mass of tissue that, with the corpora cavernosa, forms the erectile tissue of the penis of mammals
  • customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
  • d&o insurance — D&O insurance is a personal liability insurance that provides cover to the directors and senior executives of a company.
  • deconstructionism — The belief in, or application of, deconstruction.
  • democritus junior — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
  • dining room suite — a set of furniture used in a dining room
  • displacement hull — a hull that displaces a significant volume of water when under way.
  • down in the dumps — If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable.
  • dynamic insurance — Dynamic insurance is a type of insurance coverage where the policyholder can choose to increase benefits and premiums by a fixed percentage each year to offset the effects of inflation.
  • emission spectrum — the continuous spectrum or pattern of bright lines or bands seen when the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a substance is passed into a spectrometer. The spectrum is characteristic of the emitting substance and the type of excitation to which it is subjected
  • employee discount — When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount, they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
  • enrolment figures — the numbers of people enrolling at an institution, on a course, etc
  • ethnomusicologist — A researcher in the field of ethnomusicology.
  • executive mansion — the White House (in Washington, D.C.), official home of the President of the U.S.
  • exhaust emissions — Exhaust emissions are substances that come out of an exhaust system into the atmosphere.
  • female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • female-chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
  • flight instrument — any instrument used to indicate the altitude, attitude, airspeed, drift, or direction of an aircraft.
  • flight supplement — an additional charge payable on the price of an air ticket
  • fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
  • freedmen's bureau — an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.
  • from soup to nuts — a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
  • functional isomer — any of several structural isomers that have the same molecular formula but with the atoms connected in different ways and therefore falling into different functional groups.
  • gastrojejunostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
  • germanicus caesar — 15 b.c.–a.d. 19, Roman general.
  • guanine deaminase — an enzyme, found in liver, brain, spleen, pancreas, and kidney, that converts guanine into xanthine and ammonia.
  • guggenheim museum — an international chain of art museums, some of which are architecturally important buildings in their own right, most notably one in New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1956–59), and one in Bilbao, designed by Frank O Gehry (1997)
  • gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • household ammonia — diluted ammonia, often having a small quantity of detergent, used in the home for cleaning.
  • hurler's syndrome — a medical condition characterized by physical deformity and mental deficiency
  • i am bound to say — You can say 'I am bound to say' to introduce a statement expressing something that you find undesirable or unexpected.
  • immunocompromised — having an impaired or compromised immune response; immunodeficient.
  • immunodiagnostics — the determination of immunologic characteristics of individuals, cells, and other biologic entities.
  • immunofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or using immunofluorescence.
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