16-letter words containing a, c, t, o, r, m
- migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
- minority carrier — the entity responsible for carrying the lesser part of the current in a semiconductor
- mint is not trac — (text, tool) (MINT) A version of TRAC used as the extension language in the Freemacs editor.
- miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
- misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
- misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
- mispronunciation — (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
- mission-critical — essential for a project to launch
- mistranscription — the act or process of transcribing.
- molecular weight — the average weight of a molecule of an element or compound measured in units once based on the weight of one hydrogen atom taken as the standard or on 1/16 (0.0625) the weight of an oxygen atom, but after 1961 based on 1/12 (0.083) the weight of the carbon-12 atom; the sum of the atomic weights of all the atoms in a molecule. Abbreviation: mol. wt.
- monochromaticity — of or having one color.
- mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
- mortgagee clause — a clause attached to a fire-insurance policy for protecting a mortgagee against loss or damage.
- mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
- motorola 68lc040 — (processor) A version of the Motorola 68040 with no MMU or FPU, making it more like an enhanced Motorola 68020. A Power Macintosh can emulate a Motorola 68LC040.
- mount carmel man — an early human of Neanderthaloid type, known from skeletal remains from the late Pleistocene Epoch, c50,000–40,000 b.c., found in Palestine.
- mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
- moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
- multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- multiple factors — polygene.
- musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
- mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
- mutual recursion — recursion
- neo-conservatism — (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies
- non-confirmation — the act of confirming.
- non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- non-contemporary — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- nonharmonic tone — a tone sounding with a chord of which it is not a chord tone.
- nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
- north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
- not miss a trick — to be very alert
- nuclear magneton — a unit of magnetic moment, used to measure proton spin and approximately equal to 1/1836 Bohr magneton.
- numbered account — a bank account whose owner is identified by a number for the purpose of preserving anonymity.
- occipitotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the occiput and temporal lobe.
- ohmic resistance — resistance (def 3a).
- onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
- operating income — revenue from business operations after operating expenses are deducted from gross income.
- optical computer — an experimental computer that uses photons rather than electrical impulses to process data a thousand times faster than with conventional integrated circuits.
- orthoformic acid — a hypothetical acid, HC(OH) 3 , known only in the form of its esters.
- orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
- over-communicate — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- over-romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
- overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
- overcompensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
- overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
- palmtop computer — a computer that has a small screen and compressed keyboard and is small enough to be held in the hand, often used as a personal organizer