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16-letter words containing e, i, s, n, t

  • middle westerner — the region of the United States bounded on the W by the Rocky Mountains, on the S by the Ohio River and the S extremities of Missouri and Kansas, and on the E, variously, by the Allegheny Mountains, the E border of Ohio, or the E border of Illinois.
  • military science — the study of the causative factors and tactical principles of warfare.
  • minamata disease — a severe form of mercury poisoning, characterized by neurological degeneration.
  • mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
  • minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • minimum-security — (of a prison) designed for prisoners regarded as being less dangerous; having fewer restrictions.
  • minstrel gallery — a gallery in a building meant for use by musicians playing to provide background music or entertainment at a feast or other event
  • minute secretary — the person responsible for noting the minutes of a meeting
  • misspecification — An incorrect specification.
  • misunderestimate — (colloquial, malapropism, or, intentionally incorrect) To underestimate by mistake.
  • misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
  • mit lisp machine — Lisp Machine
  • modern synthesis — a consolidation of the results of various lines of investigation from the 1920s through the 1950s that supported and reconciled the Darwinian theory of evolution and the Mendelian laws of inheritance in terms of natural selection acting on genetic variation.
  • monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
  • montes apenninus — a mountain range in the first and second quadrants of the visible face of the moon, forming the SE border of Mare Imbrium: about 600 miles (970 km) long.
  • mos technologies — MOS Technology
  • mosquito netting — netting used in the making of mosquito nets.
  • most wanted list — an actual or supposed listing of the names of persons who are urgently being sought for a specific reason, as apprehension for an alleged crime.
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • mourne mountains — a mountain range in SE Northern Ireland. Highest peak: Slieve Donard, 853 m (2798 ft)
  • mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • multi-discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • 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.
  • multidisciplined — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
  • multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
  • multiple fission — fission into more than two new organisms.
  • multiple listing — the listing of a home for sale with a number of real-estate brokers who participate in a shared listing service.
  • musique concrete — tape-recorded musical and natural sounds, often electronically distorted, arranged in planned combinations, sequences, and rhythmic patterns to create an artistic work.
  • muskegon heights — a city in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • natural disaster — meteorological or geological catastrophe
  • neapolitan sixth — (in musical harmony) a chord composed of the subdominant of the key, plus a minor third and a minor sixth. Harmonically it is equivalent to the first inversion of a major chord built upon the flattened supertonic
  • necessitarianism — the doctrine that all events, including acts of the will, are determined by antecedent causes; determinism.
  • negative-raising — a rule that moves a negative element out of the complement clause of certain verbs, such as think, into the main clause, as in the derivation of He doesn't think that he'll finish
  • neo-christianity — any interpretation of Christianity based on the prevalent philosophy of a given period.
  • neo-confucianist — of or relating to neo-Confucians or neo-Confucianism.
  • neo-conservatism — (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies
  • neoconservatives — Plural form of neoconservative.
  • neptunium series — a radioactive series that starts with plutonium-241 and ends with bismuth-209. Neptunium-237 is the longest-lived member of the series. The series does not occur in nature
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