14-letter words containing a, d, m, i, n
- morbid anatomy — the branch of medical science concerned with the study of the structure of diseased organs and tissues
- morris dancing — Morris dancing is a type of old English country dancing which is performed by people wearing special costumes.
- moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
- mountain guide — a trained professional mountaineer who guides climbers up a mountain
- multi-talented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
- 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.
- municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
- 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.
- non-admissible — that may be allowed or conceded; allowable: an admissible plan.
- noncomplicated — (esp of a medical condition or procedure) not involving complications
- nondenominated — designating or of a postage stamp that has no denomination printed on it
- nondimensional — Not dimensional.
- nonpalindromic — Not palindromic.
- normal divisor — a normal subgroup.
- numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
- numidian crane — the demoiselle crane
- old-time dance — a formal or formation dance, such as the lancers
- ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- over-demanding — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
- overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
- panidiomorphic — (of igneous rocks) having well-developed crystals
- pantomime dame — an exaggerated comedic female character in a pantomime played by a male actor
- pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
- platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
- pneumatic duct — the duct joining the air bladder and alimentary canal of a physostomous fish.
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- pointed domain — (theory) In most formulations of domain theory, a domain is defined to have a bottom element and algebraic CPOs without bottoms are called "predomains". David Schmidt's domains do not have this requirement and he calls a domain with a bottom "pointed".
- precision-made — made to precise specifications
- predeterminate — determined beforehand; predetermined.
- prime meridian — the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.
- printed matter — any of various kinds of printed material that qualifies for a special postal rate.
- procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
- promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
- psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
- radiostrontium — strontium 90.
- random testing — (programming, testing) A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work.
- recommendation — an act of recommending.
- right-hand man — an indispensable or invaluable assistant; right hand.
- saddam hussein — Also, Hosein, Husain. (al-Husayn) a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.
- scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
- scream and die — Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
- self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.