17-letter words containing mic
- ribbon microphone — a microphone that utilizes a metal ribbon suspended in a magnetic field.
- semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
- septicemic plague — an especially dangerous form of plague in which the infecting organisms invade the bloodstream. Compare plague (def 2).
- simple microscope — a microscope having a single lens.
- socioeconomically — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and economic factors: socioeconomic study; socioeconomic status.
- spectromicroscope — a microscope with an attached spectroscope.
- superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
- throat microphone — a microphone worn around the throat and actuated by vibrations of the larynx, used when background noise would obscure the sound of speech, as in an airplane cockpit.
- ultramicrobalance — a balance for weighing precisely, to a hundredth of a microgram or less, minute quantities of material.
- welfare economics — a branch of economics concerned with improving human welfare and social conditions chiefly through the optimum distribution of wealth, the relief or reduction of unemployment, etc.