17-letter words containing ma

financial manager — a person responsible for the supervision and handling of the financial affairs of an organization
first commandment — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”: first of the Ten Commandments.
first normal form — database normalisation
first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
french somaliland — a former name of Djibouti (def 1).
gamma-ray burster — a source of gamma-ray bursts
garlic mayonnaise — mayonnaise flavoured with garlic
gas chromatograph — a chromatograph used for the separation of volatile substances.
general semantics — a philosophical approach to language, developed by Alfred Korzybski, exploring the relationship between the form of language and its use and attempting to improve the capacity to express ideas.
gentleman-at-arms — (in England) one of a guard of 40 gentlemen who attend the sovereign on state occasions.
geomagnetic storm — magnetic storm.
geothermal energy — Geothermal energy is energy from temperature differences inside the earth's crust.
germanicus caesar — 15 b.c.–a.d. 19, Roman general.
gethsemane cheese — a semisoft, mild, yellow cheese from whole milk, made by Trappist monks.
grand climacteric — Physiology. a period of decrease of reproductive capacity in men and women, culminating, in women, in the menopause.
great namaqualand — an arid coastal region in the S part of Namibia, extending into the Cape of Good Hope province of the Republic of South Africa, divided by the Orange River into two regions, one in Namibia (Great Namaqualand) the other in South Africa (Little Namaqualand) inhabited by the Nama.
guglielmo marconi — Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
gustavo a. madero — official name of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
haemagglutinating — That agglutinates red blood cells.
haemagglutination — Alternative form of hemagglutination.
haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
heat of formation — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a compound is formed from its constituent atoms
heimlich maneuver — an emergency rescue procedure for application to someone choking on a foreign object, in which the rescuer places a fist between the victim's lower ribs or upper abdomen from behind and exerts sudden pressure in the form of thrusts of sufficient force to help eject the object from the windpipe.
hermaphrodite rig — jackass rig.
heteronormativity — The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.
hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
hollerith, herman — Herman Hollerith
holy roman empire — a Germanic empire located chiefly in central Europe that began with the coronation of Charlemagne as Roman emperor in a.d. 800 (or, according to some historians, with the coronation of Otto the Great, king of Germany, in a.d. 962) and ended with the renunciation of the Roman imperial title by Francis II in 1806, and was regarded theoretically as the continuation of the Western Empire and as the temporal form of a universal dominion whose spiritual head was the pope.
homeopathic magic — magic that attempts to control the universe through the mimicking of a desired event, as by stabbing an image of an enemy in an effort to destroy him or her or by performing a ritual dance imitative of the growth of food in an effort to secure an abundant supply; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that similar actions produce similar results.
human engineering — an applied science that coordinates the design of devices, systems, and physical working conditions with the capacities and requirements of the worker.
human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
hydrothermal vent — an opening on the floor of the sea from which hot, mineral-rich solutions issue. Compare vent1 (def 2).
i will/can manage — You say 'I can manage' or 'I'll manage' as a way of refusing someone's offer of help and insisting on doing something by yourself.
ideogrammatically — In terms of, or by means of, ideograms.
image enhancement — a method of improving the definition of a video picture by a computer program, which reduces the lowest grey values to black and the highest to white: used for pictures from microscopes, surveillance cameras, and scanners
image intensifier — any of various devices for amplifying the intensity of an optical image, sometimes used in conjunction with an image converter
image recognition — (graphics, artificial intelligence) The identification of objects in an image. This process would probably start with image processing techniques such as noise removal, followed by (low-level) feature extraction to locate lines, regions and possibly areas with certain textures. The clever bit is to interpret collections of these shapes as single objects, e.g. cars on a road, boxes on a conveyor belt or cancerous cells on a microscope slide. One reason this is an AI problem is that an object can appear very different when viewed from different angles or under different lighting. Another problem is deciding what features belong to what object and which are background or shadows etc. The human visual system performs these tasks mostly unconsciously but a computer requires skillful programming and lots of processing power to approach human performance.
in (great) demand — If someone or something is in demand or in great demand, they are very popular and a lot of people want them.
in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
in the market for — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
infinitive marker — a word or affix occurring with the verb stem in the infinitive, such as to in to make
interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
invincible armada — Armada.
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 doesn't matter — You say 'it doesn't matter' to tell someone who is apologizing to you that you are not angry or upset, and that they should not worry.
japanese clematis — a Japanese woody vine, Clematis paniculata, of the buttercup family, having dense clusters of fragrant, white flowers and plumed fruit.
journeyman joiner — a joiner who is qualified to work in the employment of another
jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.

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