16-letter words containing c, r, e, n, l, a
- melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- menstrual cramps — pain in the lower abdomen as well as possibly in the lower back and legs associated with menstruation
- mercantile paper — commercial paper.
- mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
- mexican fruitfly — a brightly colored fly, Anastrepha ludens, whose larvae are a serious pest chiefly of citrus fruits and mangoes in Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas.
- mexican hairless — one of a breed of small dogs having no hair except for a tuft on the top of the head and a little fuzz on the lower part of the tail.
- microcrystalline — minutely crystalline; composed of microscopic crystals.
- microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
- 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.
- missile launcher — system that fires missiles
- modern icelandic — the Icelandic language since c1550.
- 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
- multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
- 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
- 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 service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
- 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
- nephrocalcinosis — (medicine) The deposition of calcium salts in the renal parenchyma due to hyperparathyroidism.
- neurasthenically — In a neurasthenic way.
- nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- non-geographical — of or relating to geography.
- non-hierarchical — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
- non-reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
- nonarchitectural — Not architectural.
- noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- nonrecourse loan — a loan for which the borrower cannot be held responsible for any amount in excess of the security for the loan, even if the value of such security falls below the level it had or that had been anticipated for it at the time of the loan.
- north charleston — a city in SE South Carolina.
- north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
- nubuck (leather) — tanned leather similar to suede, but with the nap on the grain side
- nuclear emulsion — a photographic emulsion in the form of a thick block, used to record the tracks of elementary particles.
- nuclear envelope — the double membrane surrounding the nucleus within a cell.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- nuclear magneton — a unit of magnetic moment, used to measure proton spin and approximately equal to 1/1836 Bohr magneton.
- nuclear medicine — diagnostic and therapeutic medical techniques using radionuclides or radioisotopes.
- nuclear membrane — the double membrane surrounding the nucleus within a cell.
- nuclear reaction — reaction (def 8).
- nuclear transfer — the procedure used to produce the first cloned mammals, in which the nucleus of a somatic cell is transferred into an egg cell whose own nucleus has been removed. This cell is then stimulated by an electric shock to divide and form an embryo
- nuclear umbrella — a guarantee from a country or state that possesses nuclear weapons to a country that does not that they will defend them
- occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
- on a world scale — in a way that involves the whole world
- once and for all — former; having at one time been: the once and future king.
- open scholarship — a scholarship which anyone can apply for
- organ-pipe coral — an alcyonarian coral of the genus Tubipora, occurring in tropical waters, and forming a complex colony of brick-red, vertical tubules joined at intervals by transverse plates.
- organoleptically — In an organoleptic manner.