15-letter words containing a, d, m, i
- indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
- indirect demand — the secondary demand for labour, raw materials, premises etc which arises from the direct demand for goods
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
- intra-abdominal — being within the abdomen.
- intramyocardial — Into or within the myocardium.
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
- judicial murder — the unjustified execution of the death penalty
- lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
- laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
- leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
- liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
- limited partner — special partner.
- linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
- loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
- mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- mad cow disease — BSE: bovine spongiform encephalopathy
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- magnesium oxide — magnesia.
- magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
- magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
- maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- maid-in-waiting — an unmarried woman who serves as an attendant to a queen or princess; lady-in-waiting.
- maidenhair fern — any fern of the cosmopolitan genus Adiantum, esp A. capillis-veneris, having delicate fan-shaped fronds with small pale-green leaflets: family Adiantaceae
- maidenhair tree — ginkgo.
- maidenhair-tree — ginkgo.
- maidenhair-vine — wire vine.
- mail order firm — a company that sells goods by mail order
- mailing address — postal or delivery address
- majority leader — the leader of the majority party in a legislative body, especially the party member who directs the activities of the majority party on the floor of either the Senate or the House of Representatives.
- make a big deal — If someone makes a big deal out of something, they make a fuss about it or treat it as if it were very important.
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- malappropriated — misused or mishandled
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- man-made fabric — a type of fabric that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
- man-o'-war bird — frigate bird.
- man-of-war bird — frigate bird.
- managing editor — an editor assigned to the supervision and coordination of certain editorial activities of a newspaper, magazine, book publishing company, or the like. Abbreviation: M.E., m.e.
- mandarin collar — a narrow, stand-up collar, not quite meeting at the front.