15-letter words containing a, m, i, t, r
- micrometastasis — The microscopic level action of metastasis, the spread of disease from the primary site to other areas.
- micropegmatitic — relating to, or designating, a microscopic pegmatitic structure
- microphotograph — microfilm (def 1).
- microsoft basic — (language) (MS-BASIC) A dialect of BASIC from Microsoft, originally developed by Bill Gates in a garage back in the CP/M days. It was originally known as GWBasic, then QBASIC and finally MS-BASIC. When the MS-DOS operating system came out, it incorporated the GWBASIC.EXE or BASICA.EXE interpreters. GWBASIC ("Gee Whiz") incorporated graphics and a screen editor and was compatible with earlier BASICs. QBASIC was more sophisticated. Version 4.5 had a full screen editor, debugger and compiler. The compiler could also produce executable files but to run these a utility program (BRUN44.EXE) had to be present. Thus source code could be kept private. From DOS 5.0 or 6.0 onward, MS-BASIC was standard. Version 1.1 produced stand-alone executables and could display graphics.
- microstructural — Of or pertaining to a microstructure.
- microtopography — microrelief.
- midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
- military police — soldiers who perform police duties
- military school — military academy.
- mineral spirits — a volatile distillation product of petroleum, used as a thinner for paints and varnishes. Compare naphtha (def 1).
- miniaturisation — Alternative spelling of miniaturization.
- miniaturization — to make in extremely small size in order to keep volume or weight to a minimum: to miniaturize electronic equipment.
- ministerialists — Plural form of ministerialist.
- minority leader — the party member who directs the activities of the minority party on the floor of a legislative body, as of the U.S. Congress.
- mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
- mis-measurement — the act of measuring.
- misappreciation — failure to appreciate something fully or properly
- misappreciative — not fully or properly appreciative
- misappropriated — to put to a wrong use.
- misappropriates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misappropriate.
- misarticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- mischaracterize — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- miscoordination — Lack of coordination.
- misregistration — the act of registering.
- mitigate a risk — If something or someone mitigates a risk, they make the effects of a loss or risk less unpleasant, harmful, or serious.
- mitral stenosis — abnormal narrowing of the mitral valve usually resulting from disease, as rheumatic fever, and obstructing the free flow of blood from the atrium to the ventricle.
- mixture quality — Mixture quality is the degree to which a mixture is an ideal mixture.
- moderate-income — of or relating to those with a close-to-average income within the overall population.
- mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
- monoculturalism — The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
- montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
- moral turpitude — conduct that is regarded as immoral.
- morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
- morbidity table — A morbidity table is a statistical table that shows the proportion of people that are expected to become sick or injured at each age.
- moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
- morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
- morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
- mortality table — an actuarial table showing the percentage of persons who die at any given age, compiled from statistics on selected population groups or on former policyholders.
- mortgage relief — (formerly) a reduction of tax on income being used to pay off a mortgage
- motor insurance — insurance for a motor vehicle such as a car, which provides protection against loss in the event of an accident, theft, etc
- mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
- mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
- mountain laurel — any of various ericaceous shrubs or trees of the genus Kalmia, esp K. latifolia of E North America, which has leathery poisonous leaves and clusters of pink or white flowers
- mountain rescue — search and rescue conducted on a mountain, for example of someone who has fallen, got lost, etc
- mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
- moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
- mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
- multiarticulate — Able to bend or hinge at more than one point.