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16-letter words containing a, n, e, c

  • microcrystalline — minutely crystalline; composed of microscopic crystals.
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • microminiaturize — (especially of electronic equipment) to make extremely small; subject to microminiaturization.
  • microtransmitter — a small electronic device which transmits television or radio signals
  • military science — the study of the causative factors and tactical principles of warfare.
  • mineral charcoal — a fibrous substance resembling charcoal and having a high carbon content, often occurring in thin layers in bituminous coal.
  • miniature camera — a small camera using film that is 35 millimeters wide or less.
  • minority carrier — the entity responsible for carrying the lesser part of the current in a semiconductor
  • minute secretary — the person responsible for noting the minutes of a meeting
  • missile launcher — system that fires missiles
  • misspecification — An incorrect specification.
  • mit lisp machine — Lisp Machine
  • mittelland canal — a canal in Germany, linking the Rivers Rhine and Elbe. Length: 325 km (202 miles)
  • mnemotechnically — In a mnemotechnic manner; using mnemotechny.
  • mock examination — an examination, esp in a school, taken as practice before an official examination
  • modern icelandic — the Icelandic language since c1550.
  • mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
  • money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
  • monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
  • monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
  • mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
  • moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
  • mount carmel man — an early human of Neanderthaloid type, known from skeletal remains from the late Pleistocene Epoch, c50,000–40,000 b.c., found in Palestine.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • mousseline sauce — a light sauce, made by adding whipped cream or egg whites to hollandaise sauce
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
  • munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
  • munching squares — A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca. 1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T - see HAKMEM items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen. The initial value of T is treated as a parameter, which, when well-chosen, can produce amazing effects. Some of these, later (re)discovered on the LISP Machine, have been christened "munching triangles" (try AND for XOR and toggling points instead of plotting them), "munching w's", and "munching mazes". More generally, suppose a graphics program produces an impressive and ever-changing display of some basic form, foo, on a display terminal, and does it using a relatively simple program; then the program (or the resulting display) is likely to be referred to as "munching foos". [This is a good example of the use of the word foo as a metasyntactic variable.]
  • musculocutaneous — of, relating to, or supplying the muscles and skin
  • mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system)   (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
  • mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
  • mutual insurance — insurance in which those insured become members of a company who reciprocally engage, by payment of certain amounts into a common fund, to indemnify one another against loss.
  • mutual recursion — recursion
  • nanotechnologies — Plural form of nanotechnology.
  • nanotechnologist — Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.
  • narcotics charge — a criminal charge or accusation concerning the use or dealing of illegal drugs
  • narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
  • nassella tussock — type of tussock grass
  • national charter — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
  • national costume — traditional dress
  • national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
  • native americans — a person born in the United States.
  • native companion — brolga.
  • natural resource — a naturally occurring source of wealth, as land or water.
  • nature-identical — manufactured to be identical to a natural substance
  • near the knuckle — risqué
  • necessitarianism — the doctrine that all events, including acts of the will, are determined by antecedent causes; determinism.
  • necklace killing — an instance in which someone is killed by a burning tyre that has been placed around his or her neck.
  • neo-christianity — any interpretation of Christianity based on the prevalent philosophy of a given period.
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