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18-letter words containing w, e, m

  • lower klamath lake — See under Klamath Lakes.
  • make allowance for — the act of allowing.
  • make heavy weather — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • make matters worse — If you say that something makes matters worse, you mean that it makes a difficult situation even more difficult.
  • make short work of — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • make sth one's own — If you make something your own, you become involved in it in such a way that people think of it as being related only to you or belonging only to you, rather than to anyone else.
  • marine underwriter — an underwriter who specializes in marine insurance
  • may flower compact — an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
  • mechanical drawing — drawing, as of machinery, done with the aid of rulers, scales, compasses, etc.
  • medicine bow range — a range of the Rocky Mountains, in Wyoming and Colorado. Highest peak, Medicine Bow Peak, 12,014 feet (3662 meters).
  • mendel's first law — the principle, originated by Gregor Mendel, stating that during the production of gametes the two copies of each hereditary factor segregate so that offspring acquire one factor from each parent.
  • microwave detector — a device for recording the speed of a motorist
  • microwave spectrum — a spectrum of electromagnetic radiations whose wavelengths fall in the microwave range.
  • milkweed butterfly — monarch butterfly.
  • mixed-flow turbine — a water turbine in which water flows radially and axially through the rotating vanes
  • mobility allowance — an allowance paid by the government to help people who have limited mobility
  • mop the floor with — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
  • moscow art theater — a Russian theatrical company founded in 1898 principally by Konstantin Stanislavski and famous for its naturalistic acting.
  • multiflow computer — (company)   A now-defunct computer company, best known for its work in Very Long Instruction Word processors. Address: New Haven, Conn. USA.
  • multiple ownership — ownership by several people or organizations
  • network management — (networking)   The process of controlling a network so as to maximise its efficiency and productivity. ISO's model divides network management into five categories: fault management, accounting management, configuration management, security management and performance management. Fault management is the process of identifying and locating faults in the network. This could include discovering the existence of the problem, identifying the source, and possibly repairing (or at least isolating the rest of the network from) the problem. Configuration management is the process of identifying, tracking and modifying the setup of devices on the network. This category is extremely important for devices that come with numerous custom settings (e.g. routers and file servers). Security management is the process of controlling (granting, limiting, restricting or denying) access to the network and resources thereon. This could include setting up and managing access lists in routers (creating "firewalls" to keep intruders out), creating and maintaining password access to critical network resources, identifying the points of entry used by intruders and closing them. Performance Management is the process of measuring the performance of various network components. This also includes taking measures to optimise the network for maximum system performance (periodically measuring of the use of network resources).
  • new american bible — an English translation of the Bible based on the original languages, prepared by Catholic Biblical scholars, and first published in 1970.
  • new storage system — (storage)   (NSS) A major Multics implementation project during the 1970s. The initial Multics file system design had evolved from the one-huge-disk world of CTSS. When multiple disk units were used they were just assigned increasing ranges of disk addresses, so a segment could have pages scattered over all disks on the system. This provided good I/O parallelism but made crash recovery expensive. NSS redesigned the lower levels of the file system, introducing the concepts of logical volume and physical volume and a mapping from a Multics directory branch to a VTOC entry for each file. The new system had much better recovery performance in exchange for a small space and performance cost.
  • overtime work(ing) — work at a regular job done in addition to regular working hours
  • presumption of law — a presumption based upon a policy of law or a general rule and not upon the facts or evidence in an individual case.
  • random walk theory — the theory that the future movement of share prices does not reflect past movements and therefore will not follow a discernible pattern
  • salem witch trials — 17th-century witchcraft case
  • slow-motion replay — a showing again in slow motion of a sequence of action, esp of part of a sporting contest immediately after it happens
  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • super middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 168 pounds (75.6 kg), between middleweight and light heavyweight.
  • swarm intelligence — the collective behaviour of a group of animals, esp social insects such as ants, bees, and termites, that are each following very basic rules
  • swartkrans ape-man — the fossil remains of the extinct hominid Australopithecus robustus, found at Swartkrans, Republic of South Africa: formerly classified in the genus Paranthropus.
  • swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
  • swim with the tide — to conform to prevailing opinion
  • take a dim view of — not bright; obscure from lack of light or emitted light: a dim room; a dim flashlight.
  • the three wise men — the wise men from the east who came to do homage to the infant Jesus
  • the welsh assembly — the elected assembly for Wales, based in Cardiff, that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
  • to take a dim view — If you take a dim view or a poor view of someone or something, you disapprove of them or have a low opinion of them.
  • two-chamber system — the system of having two parliamentary chambers, as the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
  • two-minute warning — a time-out called by an official to notify both teams that two minutes remain in a half.
  • wage determination — the process of setting wage rates or establishing wage structures in particular situations
  • wandering minstrel — travelling performer
  • waste minimization — a policy of generating as little waste as possible
  • watchdog committee — a committee responsible for monitoring standards of behaviour
  • watson-crick model — a widely accepted model for the three-dimensional structure of DNA, featuring a double-helix configuration for the molecule's two hydrogen-bonded complementary polynucleotide strands.
  • wattless component — Electricity. reactive component.
  • wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
  • western hemisphere — the western part of the terrestrial globe, including North and South America, their islands, and the surrounding waters.
  • western meadowlark — any of several American songbirds of the genus Sturnella, of the family Icteridae, especially S. magna (eastern meadowlark) and S. neglecta (western meadowlark) having a brownish and black back and wings and a yellow breast, noted for their clear, tuneful song.
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