14-letter words containing a, l, i, u, n
- manipulatively — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
- manuel noriega — Manuel Antonio, born 1934, military leader of Panama 1983–89: captured by U.S. forces and sentenced to prison for drug trafficking 1992.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- mensural music — polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- midwall column — a column or the like carrying a wall overhanging it on both sides.
- mind uploading — (application) The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- minicalculator — a very small handheld calculator
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- miscalculating — Present participle of miscalculate.
- miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
- misutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- mixed language — any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages
- modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- monolingualism — knowing or able to use only one language; monoglot.
- monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
- moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
- mountain nyala — a similar and related Ethiopian animal, T. buxtoni, lacking the white crest
- mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
- multi-location — the state or power of being in more than two places at the same time.
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multi-talented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
- multicollinear — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting multicollinearity.
- multilingually — In a multilingual manner.
- multinationals — Plural form of multinational.
- multinucleated — Having multiple nuclei; multinucleate.
- multiplication — the act or process of multiplying or the state of being multiplied.
- multipotential — able to differentiate along several lines
- multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- 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.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- musca volitans — floater (def 6).
- musicalization — the adaptation of a novel, play, etc into a musical form
- muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
- mutual insurer — A mutual insurer is an insurance company which is owned by its members or policyholders rather than by shareholders.
- nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
- national guard — state military forces, in part equipped, trained, and quartered by the U.S. government, and paid by the U.S. government, that become an active component of the army when called into federal service by the president in civil emergencies. Compare militia (def 2).
- national trust — (in Britain) an organization concerned with the preservation of historic buildings and monuments and areas of the countryside of great beauty in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1895 and incorporated by act of parliament in 1907. The National Trust for Scotland was founded in 1931
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- natural virtue — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
- naturalisation — Alternative spelling of naturalization.
- naturalization — to confer upon (an alien) the rights and privileges of a citizen.
- neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.