17-letter words containing n, a, m, e, d, y
- mentally impaired — with reduced or weakened mental capacity
- method of payment — cash, credit card, cheque, etc.
- midmorning prayer — the third of the seven canonical hours; terce
- militant tendency — (in Britain) a Trotskyist group formerly operating within the Labour Party
- mistaken identity — when sb is identified as sb else
- money-market fund — a mutual fund that invests in the money market.
- monkey bread tree — a bombacaceous tree, Adansonia digitata, native to Africa, that has a very thick trunk, large white flowers, and a gourdlike fruit with an edible pulp called monkey bread
- monkeygland sauce — a piquant sauce, made from tomatoes, ketchup, fruit chutney, garlic, spices, etc
- mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
- nial systems ltd. — Distributors of Q'NIAL. Address: Ottawa Canada. Telephone: Canada (613) 234 4188.
- nightshade family — the plant family Solanaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, and vines having alternate, simple or pinnate leaves, conspicuous flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including belladonna, eggplant, nightshade, peppers of the genus Capsicum, petunia, potato, tobacco, and tomato.
- oyer and terminer — (in some U.S. states) any of various higher criminal courts.
- phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
- physical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury by means of physical agents, as manipulation, massage, exercise, heat, or water.
- physical pendulum — any apparatus consisting of a body of possibly irregular shape allowed to rotate freely about a horizontal axis on which it is pivoted (distinguished from simple pendulum).
- potassium cyanide — a white, granular, water-soluble, poisonous powder, KCN, having a faint almondlike odor, used chiefly in metallurgy and photography.
- primary dentition — the deciduous dentition
- primary education — junior, elementary schooling
- purely and simply — You use purely and simply to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the only thing involved.
- scentless mayweed — a similar and related plant, Matricaria maritima, with scentless leaves
- spiny-headed worm — any of a small group of endoparasites of the phylum Acanthocephala, as larvae parasitic in insects and crustaceans and as adults in various vertebrates.
- stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
- sunday supplement — a special section incorporated in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, often containing features on books, celebrities, home entertainment, gardening, and the like.
- superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
- supply and demand — economy: basic market theory
- sydenham's chorea — a form of chorea affecting children, often associated with rheumatic fever
- tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
- williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties
- yesterday morning — during the morning of the day preceding today