14-letter words containing e, r, i, o, s
- misorientation — a bad or incorrect orientation
- misperceptions — Plural form of misperception.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- misrecognition — Incorrect recognition.
- misrecognizing — Present participle of misrecognize.
- missing person — sb who has disappeared
- missouri river — a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City. Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
- mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- moderate-sized — not large or small
- modern english — the English language since c1475.
- modern persian — the Persian language since the Middle Persian stage.
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
- monodispersive — Monodisperse.
- monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- monotransitive — In grammar, pertaining to a transitive verb that takes a single mandatory object, either a direct object or a primary object depending on the language.
- montes veneris — mons veneris
- morbid obesity — a state of obesity in which the body mass index is between 40 and 49.9 kg/m2
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- mortise chisel — framing chisel.
- mother shipton — a day-flying noctuid moth, Callistege mi, mottled brown in colour and named from a fancied resemblance between its darker marking and a haggish profile
- motor-assisted — mechanically assisted by a motor
- mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multiple store — chain store.
- multiprocessor — parallel processing
- multireligious — belonging to or following more than one religion
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- music director — The music director of an orchestra or other group of musicians is the person who decides what they will play and where, and usually conducts them as well.
- muster station — the place on a ship where passengers should assemble in the event of an emergency
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- mysteriousness — full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence.
- napier's bones — a form of multiplication table originally marked on sticks of bone or ivory that could be rearranged to carry out the operations of multiplication or division.
- narcosynthesis — a treatment for psychiatric disturbances that uses narcotics.
- narcoterrorism — terrorist tactics employed by dealers in illicit drugs, as against competitors or government agents.
- national dress — the traditional clothing of a country
- national press — newspapers which concern national events of a country collectively
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- neighborliness — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
- nematodiriasis — the condition, esp in sheep, of having parasitic nematode worms of the genus Nematodirus in the small intestine
- neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
- neo-surrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
- neoromanticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) Fine Arts. a style of painting developed in the 20th century, chiefly characterized by forms or images that project a sense of nostalgia and fantasy.
- nervous nellie — a constantly nervous, worried, or timid person.
- nether regions — the lower part of a place, esp when unpleasant or frightening