15-letter words containing c, e, d
- medicine bottle — a small bottle used to hold medicine
- medicine bundle — a wrapped package of items used by some North American Indians for religious or ceremonial purposes.
- medullary canal — the central area of a bone, containing marrow
- melamine-coated — covered with an outer layer of melamine
- mental handicap — learning disability
- meridian circle — a transit instrument provided with a graduated vertical scale, used to measure the declinations of heavenly bodies and to determine the time of meridian transits.
- methyl chloride — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Cl, used chiefly as a refrigerant, as a local anesthetic, and as a methylating agent in organic synthesis.
- michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- microdiscectomy — (surgery) microdecompression.
- microdissection — dissection performed under a microscope.
- micrometeoroids — Plural form of micrometeoroid.
- mid-ocean ridge — any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.
- middle american — average middle-class Americans as a group, as distinguished from the rich or poor or the politically extreme.
- middle distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
- middle-distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- miscommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscommunicate.
- miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
- mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
- moderate-income — of or relating to those with a close-to-average income within the overall population.
- modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
- mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
- molecular cloud — a cool dense interstellar region composed of a wide variety of molecules, mainly hydrogen, plus some dust, in which stars are forming
- monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
- monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
- mononucleotides — Plural form of mononucleotide.
- monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
- monospaced type — a typeface in which the width of all letters, including the space around them, is the same
- monroe doctrine — the policy, as stated by President Monroe in 1823, that the U.S. opposed further European colonization of and interference with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere.
- morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
- multi-channeled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
- multidiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- muslim calendar — the lunar calendar used by Muslims and reckoned from a.d. 622: the calendar year consists of 354 days and contains 12 months: Moharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu ʾl-Qaʿda, and Dhu ʾl-hijjah. In leap years the month Dhu ʾl-hijjah contains one extra day.
- myelodysplastic — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or showing evidence of myelodysplasia.
- napoleonic code — Code Napoléon
- native canadian — a person born in Canada of American Indian or Inuit descent.
- neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
- needle exchange — A needle exchange is a place where drug addicts are able to obtain new syringes in exchange for used ones.
- neuroectodermal — Of or pertaining to the neuroectoderm.
- new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
- newton's cradle — an ornamental puzzle consisting of a frame in which five metal balls are suspended in such a way that when one is moved it sets all the others in motion in turn
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- nickel and dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- nickel-and-dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- nolo contendere — (in a criminal case) a defendant's pleading that does not admit guilt but subjects him or her to punishment as though a guilty plea had been entered, the determination of guilt remaining open in other proceedings.
- non-adjudicated — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- non-capitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- non-coincidence — a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance: Our meeting in Venice was pure coincidence.
- non-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.