14-letter words containing e, m, c
- midlife crisis — a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.
- mie scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are large relative to the wavelength of the light.
- mileage ticket — a book (mileage book) or ticket containing coupons good for a certain number of miles of transportation at a fixed rate per mile.
- milk chocolate — chocolate that has been mixed with milk.
- milling cutter — any of various rotating toothed cutters used in a milling machine to cut or shape metal parts
- miniconvention — a small-scale or preliminary convention, especially a political convention prior to a larger or national convention.
- minor sentence — any sentence that is not a true full sentence; a transformation by deletion from a full sentence.
- minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- misacceptation — misinterpretation
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- miscellanarian — a person who writes miscellanies
- mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- miscommunicate — (ambitransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
- misconceptions — Plural form of misconception.
- misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
- miscontentment — discontent; dissatisfaction
- miscorrelation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
- miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
- misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
- misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misperceptions — Plural form of misperception.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- misrecognition — Incorrect recognition.
- misrecognizing — Present participle of misrecognize.
- misremembrance — An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
- mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
- mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- mmx technology — Matrix Math eXtensions
- mnemotechnical — Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
- mobile canteen — a truck or lorry with kitchen facilities that can be used on site, such as on a film set, construction site, as a soup kitchen, etc
- mobile command — the Canadian army and other land forces
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- model checking — (theory, algorithm, testing) To algorithmically check whether a program (the model) satisfies a specification. The model is usually expressed as a directed graph consisting of nodes (or vertices) and edges. A set of atomic propositions is associated with each node. The nodes represents states of a program, the edges represent possible executions which alters the state, while the atomic propositions represent the basic properties that hold at a point of execution. A specification language, usually some kind of temporal logic, is used to express properties. The problem can be expressed mathematically as: given a temporal logic formula p and a model M with initial state s, decide if M,s \models p.
- modelling clay — mouldable substance fixed in a kiln
- molecular beam — a stream of molecules freed from a substance, usually a salt, by evaporation and then passed through a narrow slit for focusing, for investigating the properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules.
- molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
- money changing — the business of exchanging one currency for another, with the deduction of a commission for the service.
- money-changing — the business or act of exchanging currency, usually of different countries, esp. at a set rate
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- monocarpellary — consisting of a single carpel.
- monocotyledons — Plural form of monocotyledon.
- monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
- mononucleotide — (genetics) A single nucleotide.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.