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17-letter words containing u, n, s, t, o

  • institutionalized — to make institutional.
  • institutionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of institutionalize.
  • insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
  • insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • integrated course — a course that covers several subjects
  • intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
  • iron constitution — a particularly strong and resistant physical make-up
  • island of the sun — Sicily: the island where Helius kept his oxen.
  • isthmus of panama — an isthmus linking North and South America, between the Pacific and the Caribbean. Length: 676 km (420 miles). Width (at its narrowest point): 50 km (31 miles)
  • it's your funeral — If someone says to you 'It's your funeral', they think your decision or your actions will have bad consequences for you, but they are unwilling to interfere.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • kastor and pollux — Castor and Pollux.
  • kennesaw mountain — a mountain in N Georgia, near Atlanta: battle 1864. 1809 feet (551 meters).
  • khingan mountains — a mountain system of NE China, in W Manchuria. Highest peak: 2034 m (6673 ft)
  • knock oneself out — to make great efforts; exhaust oneself
  • 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.
  • last-in first-out — stack
  • laurent's theorem — the theorem that a function that is analytic on an annulus can be represented by a Laurent series on the annulus.
  • league of nations — an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946.
  • 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.
  • lebanon mountains — a mountain range extending the length of Lebanon, in the central part. Highest peak, 10,049 feet (3063 meters).
  • leibniz mountains — a mountain range on the SW limb of the moon, containing the highest peaks (10 000 metres) on the moon
  • limestone lettuce — a variety of lettuce derived from Bibb lettuce.
  • liquidity cushion — a reserve fund of assets held by a company or person
  • louisiana tanager — western tanager.
  • luminous exitance — the ability of a surface to emit light expressed as the luminous flux per unit area at a specified point on the surface
  • 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.
  • make noises about — to give indications of one's intentions
  • management course — a course provided by an educational establishment such as a university, which teaches skills concerning the management of a company, business, etc
  • manifest function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is planned and intentional.
  • manitoulin island — an island in N Lake Huron belonging to Canada. 80 miles (130 km) long.
  • maxwell equations — equations developed by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–79) upon which classical electromagnetic theory is based
  • memoised function — memo function
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • mill construction — heavy, fire-resistant timber construction within masonry walls, all vertical communication being within masonry towers provided with fire doors.
  • mis en bouteilles — (of a wine) bottled by a specified château, shipper, etc.
  • miscommunications — Plural form of miscommunication.
  • missense mutation — a type of mutation to a specific protein, that results from the substitution, during translation, of one amino acid for another
  • 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.
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