15-letter words containing e, n, m
- mistrustfulness — Quality of being mistrustful.
- mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
- mitral stenosis — abnormal narrowing of the mitral valve usually resulting from disease, as rheumatic fever, and obstructing the free flow of blood from the atrium to the ventricle.
- mixolydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from G to G.
- moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
- mock pennyroyal — pennyroyal (def 2).
- moderate-income — of or relating to those with a close-to-average income within the overall population.
- modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
- mole salamander — ambystomid.
- molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
- moment of truth — the moment in a bullfight at which the matador is about to make the kill.
- monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
- monkey business — frivolous or mischievous behavior.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
- monomethylamine — methylamine.
- monomolecularly — In monomolecular terms.
- 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
- monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
- monosubstituted — containing one substituent.
- monounsaturated — of or noting a class of fats that lack a hydrogen bond at one point on the carbon chain and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- monovision lens — Ophthalmology. one of a pair of contact lenses that adjust one eye for farsightedness and the other for nearsightedness, used as an alternative to bifocal lenses.
- 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.
- montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
- montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
- monthly meeting — (often initial capital letters) a district unit of local congregations of the Society of Friends.
- montmorillonite — any of a group of clay minerals characterized by the ability to expand when they absorb large quantities of water.
- monumentalizing — Present participle of monumentalize.
- morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
- morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
- moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
- moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
- moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
- morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
- morning service — a regular church service in the mornng
- morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
- morphophonemics — Also called morphonology, morphophonology. the study of the relations between morphemes and their phonological realizations, components, or mappings.
- mortgage lender — a financial institution which provides money to borrowers for mortgages
- mortiferousness — deadliness
- most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
- mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
- motion sickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from stimulation by motion of the semicircular canals of the ear during travel by car, plane, etc.
- motor generator — one or more motors mechanically coupled to one or more generators for converting or transforming electric current into mechanical energy.
- motor insurance — insurance for a motor vehicle such as a car, which provides protection against loss in the event of an accident, theft, etc
- mount of olives — a hill to the east of Jerusalem: in New Testament times the village Bethany (Mark 11:11) was on its eastern slope and Gethsemane on its western one
- mount vancouver — a mountain on the border between Canada and Alaska, in the St Elias Mountains. Height: 4785 m (15 700 ft)
- mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
- mountain laurel — any of various ericaceous shrubs or trees of the genus Kalmia, esp K. latifolia of E North America, which has leathery poisonous leaves and clusters of pink or white flowers