14-letter words containing a, d, m, i, e
- metric madness — excessive devotion to metrication
- michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- middle america — average middle-class Americans as a group, as distinguished from the rich or poor or the politically extreme.
- middle eastern — Also called Mideast. (loosely) the area from Libya E to Afghanistan, usually including Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the other countries of the Arabian peninsula.
- middle england — Journalists use Middle England to refer to middle class people in England who are believed not to like change.
- middle iranian — any of the Iranian languages spoken from about the first to the tenth centuries a.d., as Middle Persian.
- middle lamella — the layer of cementing material, composed of pectates and similar substances, between the walls of adjacent cells.
- middle passage — the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.
- middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
- middle-ranking — A middle-ranking person has a fairly important or responsible position in a particular organization, but is not one of the most important people in it.
- midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
- milk and water — If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water.
- milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
- mind-expanding — heightening perceptions in a hallucinatory way: mind-expanding drugs.
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadvisedness — the state of being ill-advised or misguided
- misapprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of misapprehend.
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
- mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
- mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
- mixed language — any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages
- mixed marriage — a marriage between persons of different racial, ethnic, or religious groups, as between a black person and a white person or between a Christian and a Jew.
- mixed metaphor — the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet.”.
- mobile command — the Canadian army and other land forces
- modelling clay — mouldable substance fixed in a kiln
- moderate-sized — not large or small
- modern persian — the Persian language since the Middle Persian stage.
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
- morbidity rate — a measure of the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
- mosaic disease — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- motor-assisted — mechanically assisted by a motor
- mountain guide — a trained professional mountaineer who guides climbers up a mountain
- multi-talented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
- multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multidialectal — encompassing or involving several dialects
- multigrade oil — Multigrade oil is engine or gear oil which works well at both low and high temperatures.
- multinucleated — Having multiple nuclei; multinucleate.
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- musical comedy — musical (def 5).
- muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
- myelodysplasia — (medicine) Any of various conditions characterized by the faulty or inadequate production of bone marrow or blood cells.
- nematodiriasis — the condition, esp in sheep, of having parasitic nematode worms of the genus Nematodirus in the small intestine
- new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.