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16-letter words containing a, s, m, u

  • muddy the waters — If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
  • multiculturalism — the state or condition of being multicultural.
  • multiculturalist — Pertaining to or advocating multiculturalism.
  • multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
  • multinationalism — a large corporation with operations and subsidiaries in several countries.
  • multiple alleles — any one of a series of three or more alternative or allelic forms of a gene, only two of which can exist in any normal, diploid individual.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • 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.]
  • murasaki shikibu — Lady, 978?–1031? Japanese poet and novelist.
  • musculocutaneous — of, relating to, or supplying the muscles and skin
  • musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
  • mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
  • mutation testing — (testing)   A method to determine test set thoroughness by measuring the extent to which a test set can discriminate the program from slight variants of the program.
  • mutatis mutandis — the necessary changes having been made.
  • 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 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
  • nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
  • national costume — traditional dress
  • neurotransmitter — any of several chemical substances, as epinephrine or acetylcholine, that transmit nerve impulses across a synapse to a postsynaptic element, as another nerve, muscle, or gland.
  • nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
  • non-consummation — the act of consummating; completion.
  • non-instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
  • norodom sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
  • north massapequa — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • nuclear emulsion — a photographic emulsion in the form of a thick block, used to record the tracks of elementary particles.
  • obsequent stream — a stream flowing in a direction opposite to that of the dip of the local strata.
  • orthodox judaism — Judaism as observed by Orthodox Jews.
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • paint-by-numbers — formulaic; showing no original thought or creativity
  • pairs tournament — an event in a sport such as tennis or darts open to pairs of competitors
  • palmer peninsula — former name of Antarctic Peninsula.
  • papillary muscle — one of the small bundles of muscles attached to the ventricle walls and to the chordae tendineae that tighten these tendons during ventricular contraction.
  • parasol mushroom — a common edible field mushroom, Macrolepiota (Lepiota) procera, having a light-brown, scaly cap.
  • passive immunity — immunity resulting from the injection of antibodies or sensitized lymphocytes from another organism or, in infants, from the transfer of antibodies through the placenta or from colostrum.
  • pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
  • permaculturalist — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
  • pleasure steamer — a boat powered by steam, used for recreational purposes
  • pocono mountains — ridge of the Appalachians, in E Pa.: resort area: c. 2,000 ft (610 m) high
  • political asylum — asylum provided by one nation to refugees, especially political refugees, from another nation.
  • potassium iodide — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, KI, having a bitter saline taste: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions, as a laboratory reagent, in the preparation of Gram's solution for biological staining, and in medicine as an expectorant and to treat thyroid conditions.
  • primary consumer — (in the food chain) an animal that feeds on plants; a herbivore.
  • primary industry — an industry, as agriculture, forestry, or fishing, that deals in obtaining natural materials.
  • print journalism — journalism as practiced in newspapers and magazines.
  • pseudohemophilia — a clotting disorder caused by abnormal factor VIII activity, and characterized by a prolonged bleeding time but without the delayed coagulation time of hemophilia.
  • pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • pullorum disease — a highly contagious, frequently fatal disease of young poultry caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum (pullorum), transmitted by the infected hen during egg production, and characterized by weakness, loss of appetite, and diarrhea.
  • pulse modulation — a type of modulation in which a train of pulses is used as the carrier wave, one or more of its parameters, such as amplitude, being modulated or modified in order to carry information
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