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17-letter words containing f, e, r, m, n

  • 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.
  • heat of formation — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a compound is formed from its constituent atoms
  • homo floresiensis — a possible species of very small, primitive human: its fossils were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003.
  • image intensifier — any of various devices for amplifying the intensity of an optical image, sometimes used in conjunction with an image converter
  • immunofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or using immunofluorescence.
  • impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
  • improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
  • 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.
  • incomplete flower — a flower without one or more of the normal parts, as carpels, sepals, petals, pistils, or stamens.
  • indefinite number — a variable or unspecified number.
  • inertial platform — self-contained navigational devices used in inertial guidance, along with their mounting.
  • infinitive marker — a word or affix occurring with the verb stem in the infinitive, such as to in to make
  • instrument flying — the control and navigation of an aircraft by reference to its gauges, with no or only limited visual reference outside the cockpit.
  • intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
  • interim financing — temporary financing
  • isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
  • life imprisonment — long-term prison sentence
  • line of scrimmage — an imaginary line parallel to the goal lines that passes from one sideline to the other through the point of the football closest to the goal line of each team.
  • macfarlane burnet — Sir (Frank) Macfarlane [muh k-fahr-luh n] /məkˈfɑr lən/ (Show IPA), 1899–1985, Australian physician: Nobel Prize in Physiology 1960.
  • magnetizing force — that part of the magnetic induction that is determined at any point in space by the current density and displacement current at that point independently of the magnetic or other physical properties of the surrounding medium. Symbol: H.
  • make a difference — have a significant impact
  • make reference to — mention, allude to
  • man enough to/for — If you say that a man is man enough to do something, you mean that he has the necessary courage or ability to do it.
  • man's best friend — a dog, especially as a pet.
  • manna from heaven — Bible: food from heaven
  • manufactured home — a prefabricated house, assembled in modular sections.
  • mare fecunditatis — (Sea of Fertility) a dark plain in the fourth quadrant and extending into the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 160,000 sq. mi. (415,000 sq. km).
  • margaret of anjou — 1430–82, queen of Henry VI of England.
  • master of science — a master's degree given usually in a specific branch of the natural sciences, mathematics, or technology.
  • maternity benefit — government allowance
  • matter of opinion — a point open to question; a debatable statement
  • maurice of nassau — Prince of Orange 1567-1625; Du. statesman & military leader
  • merchant of death — a company, nation, or person that sells military arms on the international market, usually to the highest bidder and without scruple or regard for political ramifications.
  • metallofullerenes — Plural form of metallofullerene.
  • methyltransferase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of methyl groups from one molecule to another.
  • microsoft network — The Microsoft Network
  • middle of nowhere — a completely isolated, featureless, or insignificant place
  • minimal free form — the smallest unit of language that can make sense on its own
  • minister of state — (in the British Parliament) a minister, usually below cabinet rank, appointed to assist a senior minister with heavy responsibilities
  • mode of transport — means of travel
  • moment of inertia — the sum of the products of the mass and the square of the perpendicular distance to the axis of rotation of each particle in a body rotating about an axis.
  • monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
  • money-market fund — a mutual fund that invests in the money market.
  • month after month — every month
  • mother of vinegar — mother2 .
  • motion of censure — a motion by opposition parties criticizing the government
  • mount fairweather — a mountain in W North America, on the border between Alaska and British Columbia. Height: 4663 m (15 300 ft)
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