14-letter words containing i, n, d, u
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- latitudinarian — allowing or characterized by latitude in opinion or conduct, especially in religious views.
- levulinic acid — a white or colorless, water-soluble solid, C 5 H 8 O 3 , produced by the hydrolysis of cane sugar, starch, or cellulose; used chiefly in the organic synthesis of nylon, plastics, and pharmaceuticals.
- libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- liquid protein — an amino acid hydrosol used in weight-reduction programs as a substitute for all or some meals: generally regarded as hazardous to health because of low nutritional content and recommended for controlled use only under medical supervision.
- liquidationist — pertaining to or promoting a theory of economics which holds that governments should not interfere in a recession
- longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- 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.
- maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
- martin du gard — Roger [raw-zhey] /rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1958, French novelist: Nobel prize 1937.
- mendaciousness — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- midwall column — a column or the like carrying a wall overhanging it on both sides.
- mind uploading — (application) The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
- misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
- mixed language — any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages
- modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- mononucleotide — (genetics) A single nucleotide.
- monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
- motor industry — the manufacturers of cars viewed as a sector
- moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
- 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
- mountain guide — a trained professional mountaineer who guides climbers up a mountain
- mounted police — police who patrol on horseback
- mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
- multi-talented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
- multiconductor — having or involving several electrical conductors
- multinucleated — Having multiple nuclei; multinucleate.
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- muni bond fund — municipal bond fund.
- municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- munitions dump — a place where munitions are stored
- muscle spindle — Cell Biology. a proprioceptor in skeletal muscle, composed of striated muscle fibers and sensory nerve endings in a connective tissue sheath, that conveys information via the spinal nerves on the state of muscle stretch, important in the reflex mechanism that maintains body posture.
- muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
- national guard — state military forces, in part equipped, trained, and quartered by the U.S. government, and paid by the U.S. government, that become an active component of the army when called into federal service by the president in civil emergencies. Compare militia (def 2).
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neurodivergent — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
- neurodiversity — the variation and differences in neurological structure and function that exist among human beings, especially when viewed as being normal and natural rather than pathological: recognizing autism as an example of neurodiversity.
- neuroendocrine — of or relating to the interactions between the nervous and endocrine systems, especially in relation to hormones.