14-letter words containing i, r, s, c
- miscellanarian — a person who writes miscellanies
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
- 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.
- misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
- misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misinstruction — Wrong or improper instruction.
- misperceptions — Plural form of misperception.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- mispronouncing — Present participle of mispronounce.
- 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).
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
- 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.
- moralistically — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- morris dancing — Morris dancing is a type of old English country dancing which is performed by people wearing special costumes.
- mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
- mortise chisel — framing chisel.
- multi-cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- multiculturism — Multiculturalism.
- multiprocessor — parallel processing
- multiracialism — The promotion of a diverse society composed of various races with different cultural backgrounds.
- 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.
- musical chairs — Also called going to Jerusalem. a game in which players march to music around two rows of chairs placed back to back, there being one chair less than the number of players, the object being to find a seat when the music stops abruptly. The player failing to do so is removed from the game, together with one chair, at each interval.
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- narcissistical — Of, pertaining to or involved in narcissism or narcissistic behaviour; narcissistic.
- narcocatharsis — a technique in narcoanalysis in which the patient is encouraged to reveal suppressed emotions or memories with the aid of narcotic drugs
- narcodiagnosis — the use of drugs to produce narcosis as an aid in diagnosis.
- narcosynthesis — a treatment for psychiatric disturbances that uses narcotics.
- narcoterrorism — terrorist tactics employed by dealers in illicit drugs, as against competitors or government agents.
- necessarianism — (philosophy, metaphysics, theology) An extreme form of determinism that holds that all phenomena, including the will, are subject to immutable rules of cause and effect; necessitarianism.
- necessitarians — Plural form of necessitarian.
- 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.
- 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.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
- neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
- neuroscientist — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
- neurosecretion — a chemical secreted by a nerve cell.
- nitrocellulose — cellulose nitrate.
- non-altruistic — unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoistic).
- non-conformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.