14-letter words containing c, h, i, r, n
- marginal hacks — (humour) Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
- mariana trench — a depression in the ocean floor of the Pacific, S and W of the Mariana Islands: site of greatest known depth of any ocean. 36,201 feet (11,034 meters) deep.
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- michigan rummy — a variety of five hundred rummy in which each player scores his or her melds as played.
- microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
- microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- morphinomaniac — a person with an uncontrollable addiction to morphine
- morphophonemic — noting or pertaining to morphophonemics or morphophonemes.
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- motor mechanic — a mechanic who maintains and repairs cars and other road vehicles
- mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- narcocatharsis — a technique in narcoanalysis in which the patient is encouraged to reveal suppressed emotions or memories with the aid of narcotic drugs
- narcosynthesis — a treatment for psychiatric disturbances that uses narcotics.
- nephrectomized — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
- nephrotoxicity — The state or condition of being nephrotoxic.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
- neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
- non-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- noncharismatic — a person or group not involved in the Christian charismatic movement
- nonchurchgoing — Not attending church.
- nonhygroscopic — Not hygroscopic.
- nonpsychiatric — not psychiatric
- nontheoretical — not confined to the theoretical realm; actual
- nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- north american — the northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Central America to the Arctic Ocean. Highest point, Mt. McKinley, 20,300 feet (6187 meters); lowest, Death Valley, 276 feet (84 meters) below sea level. About 9,360,000 sq. mi. (24,242,400 sq. km).
- north atlantic — relating to the North Atlantic and, often, the countries bordering it
- north canadian — river flowing from NE N.Mex. east & southeast into the Canadian River in E Okla.: 760 mi (1,223 km)
- north carolina — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 52,586 sq. mi. (136,198 sq. km). Capital: Raleigh. Abbreviation: NC (for use with zip code), N.C.
- north germanic — the subbranch of Germanic that includes the languages of Scandinavia and Iceland.
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- oceanic trench — a long narrow steep-sided depression in the earth's oceanic crust, usually lying above a subduction zone
- omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
- onchocerciasis — an infestation with filarial worms of the genus Onchocerca, common in tropical America and Africa, transmitted by black flies, and characterized by nodules under the skin, an itchy rash, eye lesions, and in severe cases, elephantiasis.
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
- orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
- organochlorine — Any of a large group of pesticides and other synthetic organic compounds with chlorinated aromatic molecules.
- ornithischians — Plural form of ornithischian.
- ornithological — the branch of zoology that deals with birds.
- ornithomorphic — relating to an ornithomorph
- orthoselection — orthogenesis (def 1a).