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14-letter words containing i, m, u, n, o, e

  • journal intime — a personal or private diary.
  • lemon geranium — a garden geranium, Pelargonium crispum, having lemon-scented leaves.
  • linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
  • madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
  • magniloquently — In a magniloquent manner.
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • manuel noriega — Manuel Antonio, born 1934, military leader of Panama 1983–89: captured by U.S. forces and sentenced to prison for drug trafficking 1992.
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • mendaciousness — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
  • mercaptopurine — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 H 4 N 4 S, used in the treatment of leukemia.
  • meticulousness — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
  • microaneurysms — Plural form of microaneurysm.
  • microevolution — evolutionary change involving the gradual accumulation of mutations leading to new varieties within a species.
  • microinsurance — (insurance) A type of microfinancial service aimed at low-income people and communities, and typified by low premiums and coverage limits.
  • microminiature — built on an extremely small scale, smaller than subminiature, especially of electronic equipment with small solid-state components in the place of vacuum tubes.
  • micronutrients — Plural form of micronutrient.
  • microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • miscommunicate — (ambitransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
  • misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
  • miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
  • misgovernaunce — misgovernment
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
  • money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • mononucleotide — (genetics) A single nucleotide.
  • monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • motion capture — a process by which a device can be used to capture patterns of live movement; the data is then transmitted to a computer, where simulation software displays it applied to a virtual actor
  • motion picture — a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.
  • 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
  • mount mckinley — a mountain in S central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6190 meters).
  • mountain avens — either of two trailing evergreen white-flowered rosaceous shrubs of the genus Dryas that grow on mountains in N temperate regions and in the Arctic
  • mountain guide — a trained professional mountaineer who guides climbers up a mountain
  • mountain range — series or chain of mountains
  • mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
  • mountain state — any of the eight states of the W U.S. through which the Rocky Mountains pass; Mont., Ida., Wyo., Nev., Utah, Colo., Ariz., or N.Mex.
  • mountaineering — The sport or activity of climbing mountains.
  • mounted police — police who patrol on horseback
  • mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
  • mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
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