13-letter words containing a, d, c, m
- major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- malleoincudal — Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
- mandarin duck — a crested Asian duck, Aix galericulata, having variegated purple, green, chestnut, and white plumage.
- manganic acid — a hypothetical dibasic acid known only in solution and in the form of manganate salts. Formula: H2MnO4
- many-coloured — having many colours
- marching band — musical group that parades
- margaric acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, fatty acid, C 1 7 H 3 4 O 2 , resembling stearic acid, obtained from lichens or synthetically.
- marmalade cat — a cat that is streaked orange or yellow and brown in colour
- mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- matched order — an order placed with a broker to buy a specified stock at a price above the market price with the intention of immediately selling the stock through another broker at the same price. It is designed to give the appearance of active trading in the stock.
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- mean distance — the arithmetic mean of the greatest and least distances of a planet from the sun, used in stating the size of an orbit; the semimajor axis.
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- medical audit — a review of the professional standards of doctors, usually within a hospital, conducted by a medical committee
- medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- medicine ball — a large, solid, heavy, leather-covered ball, thrown from one person to another for exercise.
- medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
- melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
- mendes-france — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1907–1982, French statesman and economist: premier 1954–55.
- mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
- merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- mercurialized — Simple past tense and past participle of mercurialize.
- merry dancers — the aurora borealis
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- mid-victorian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle portion (about 1850 to 1890) of the reign of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837–1901) in England: mid-Victorian writers.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- miscalculated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalculate.
- miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
- misclassified — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
- miscoordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- mitochondrial — (cytology) Of, or relating to mitochondria.
- mix and match — made up of complementary elements taken from different sets or sources: a mix-and-match approach to interior decoration.
- mix-and-match — made up of complementary elements taken from different sets or sources: a mix-and-match approach to interior decoration.
- mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
- modifications — Plural form of modification.
- molluscicidal — relating to a preparation that kills molluscs
- monochromated — Fitted with a monochromator.
- monodactylous — having only one digit or claw.
- mononucleated — having a single nucleus
- mood enhancer — something, esp a drug, that has the effect of lifting a person's mood
- morris dancer — A morris dancer is a person who takes part in morris dancing.
- much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.