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15-letter words containing a, m, i, t, r

  • materialisation — Alternative spelling of materialization.
  • materialistical — Alternative form of materialistic.
  • materialization — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
  • maternity dress — a dress worn by a pregnant woman and which is designed to allow for the changes in body size which take place during pregnancy
  • maternity grant — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a flat-rate benefit for pregnant women on low incomes
  • maternity leave — a leave of absence for an expectant or new mother for the birth and care of the baby.
  • matrix bar code — a type of 2D bar code that stores data in a matrix of geometrically shaped dark and light cells that represent bits. See also QR code.
  • matrix compiler — Early matrix computations on UNIVAC. Sammet 1969, p.642.
  • matrix sentence — Linguistics. a sentence in which another sentence is embedded: In The man who called is waiting, The man is waiting is a matrix sentence.
  • maxilloturbinal — (anatomy) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
  • mean solar time — time measured by the hour angle of the mean sun.
  • mechlorethamine — a nitrogen mustard, C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, used in combination with other drugs in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and certain other cancers.
  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • media converter — (networking)   A component used in Ethernet, although it is not part of the IEEE standard. The IEEE standard states that all segments must be linked with repeaters. Media converters were developed as a simpler, cheaper alternative to repeaters. However, in the 1990s the cost difference between the two is negligible.
  • medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
  • medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
  • megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
  • memorialization — to commemorate.
  • memory capacity — (on a computer or other device) the amount of memory space available for data storage
  • memory location — (storage)   A byte, word or other small unit of storage space in a computer's main memory that is identified by its starting address (and size).
  • mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
  • merchant marine — the vessels of a nation that are engaged in commerce.
  • merchant prince — a very wealthy or influential merchant.
  • merchantability — The state of being merchantable.
  • merry christmas — well-wishes for Christmas season
  • messier catalog — a catalog of nonstellar objects compiled by Charles Messier in 1784 and later slightly extended, now known to contain nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
  • metacinnabarite — the black solid form of mercuric sulphide
  • metainformation — metadata
  • metallic luster — luster1 (def 8).
  • metallo-organic — organometallic.
  • metallurgically — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
  • metamorphically — In a metamorphic manner.
  • metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
  • metamorphosizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metamorphosize.
  • metanitrophenol — any compound derived from phenol by the replacement of one or more of its ring hydrogen atoms by the nitro group.
  • metropolitanate — the office or province of a metropolitan
  • metropolitanism — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • metropolitanize — to make metropolitan.
  • michaelmas term — the autumn term at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Inns of Court, and some other educational establishments
  • microanalytical — Of, pertaining to, or employing microanalysis.
  • microanatomical — relating to microanatomy
  • microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
  • microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
  • microextraction — (chemistry) A technique used to extract small amounts of material from a mixture.
  • microfiltration — Filtration through a microporous membrane.
  • microgametocyte — a gametocyte that produces microgametes
  • microgeneration — the small-scale generation of electrical power, through means such as solar or wind power
  • micromanagement — The direct management of a project etc to an excessive degree, with too much attention to detail and insufficient delegation.
  • micrometastases — Plural form of micrometastasis.
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