15-letter words containing a, m, l
- maintainability — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- 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.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- make a long arm — to reach out for something, as from a sitting position
- make a play for — to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance; portray: to play Lady Macbeth.
- make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
- make capital of — to get advantage from
- make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- malappropriated — misused or mishandled
- malassimilation — imperfect incorporation of nutrients into body tissue.
- malay peninsula — a peninsula in SE Asia, consisting of W (mainland) Malaysia and the S part of Thailand.
- malayan camphor — borneol.
- malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- male chauvinism — the beliefs, attitudes, or behavior of male chauvinists (men who patronize, disparage, or otherwise denigrate females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit).
- male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
- male prostitute — man who has sex for money
- 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.
- malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- malpighian tuft — glomerulus (def 2).
- malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
- manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
- mandarin collar — a narrow, stand-up collar, not quite meeting at the front.
- maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manganese steel — any of various steels containing manganese, especially one that has up to 14 percent manganese, used in work involving heavy strains and impacts.
- manila envelope — a large, usually brown, envelope, designed to carry documents without them having to be folded
- mannerheim line — a zone of Finnish fortification erected along part of the border between Finland and Russia before the Finno-Russian War.
- mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- manorial system — manorialism.
- manual alphabet — a set of finger configurations corresponding to the letters of the alphabet, used by the deaf in fingerspelling.
- manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
- manual training — training in the various manual arts and crafts, as woodworking.
- manubial column — a triumphal column decorated with spoils of the enemy.
- māori battalion — the Māori unit of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II
- marcus aurelius — Marcus, Marcus Aurelius.
- marginalisation — (British) alternative spelling of marginalization.
- marginalization — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- mariana islands — a group of 15 small islands in the Pacific, E of the Philippines: divided into Guam, a possession of the U.S., and the North Marianas, formally under U.S. trusteeship. 453 sq. mi. (1127 sq. km).
- mariano vallejo — César [Spanish se-sahr] /Spanish ˈsɛ sɑr/ (Show IPA), 1895–1938, Peruvian poet.
- marianske lazne — a spa in W Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic. 18,510.
- marie byrd land — former name of Byrd Land.
- marigold window — wheel window.
- marital therapy — a psychotherapeutic treatment for married couples, who are seen by a therapist both individually and jointly to assist them in resolving various problems related to their marriage.
- market analysis — the process of determining factors, conditions, and characteristics of a market.
- markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
- marlborough leg — a tapered leg having a square section.