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16-letter words containing i, s, o, t, n, c

  • luminosity class — a classification of stars of a given spectral type according to their luminosity, breaking them down into dwarfs, giants, and supergiants.
  • macro-linguistic — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macroinstruction — macro (def 5).
  • macrolinguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macrorestriction — In physical gene mapping, the digestion of DNA of high molecular weight with a restriction enzyme having a low number of restriction sites.
  • magazine section — a magazinelike section in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, containing articles rather than news items and often letters, reviews, stories, puzzles, etc.
  • magmatic stoping — the process by which country rock is broken up and engulfed by the upward movement of magma
  • magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
  • magnetic compass — a compass having a magnetized needle generally in line with the magnetic poles of the earth.
  • magnetoacoustics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of physics studying the effects of magnetism on acoustics or their interaction.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • magnetostriction — a change in dimensions exhibited by ferromagnetic materials when subjected to a magnetic field.
  • magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
  • marginal costing — a method of cost accounting and decision making used for internal reporting in which only marginal costs are charged to cost units and fixed costs are treated as a lump sum
  • mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
  • mechanochemistry — the field of chemistry that deals with the direct conversion of chemical into mechanical energy.
  • megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
  • mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
  • meretriciousness — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
  • mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
  • microconstituent — a microscopically small constituent of a metal or alloy.
  • microcrystalline — minutely crystalline; composed of microscopic crystals.
  • microelectronics — the technology dealing with the design, development, and construction of electronic systems utilizing extremely small elements, especially solid-state devices employing microminiaturization.
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • microenterprises — Plural form of microenterprise.
  • microinstruction — an instruction that defines part of a machine-language instruction in terms of simpler operations.
  • microlinguistics — the branch of linguistics that is concerned with the study of languages in the abstract, and that looks at specific linguistic data without consideration of meaning
  • microtransmitter — a small electronic device which transmits television or radio signals
  • mint is not trac — (text, tool)   (MINT) A version of TRAC used as the extension language in the Freemacs editor.
  • misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
  • miscommunication — Failure to communicate adequately.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • misconstructions — Plural form of misconstruction.
  • misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
  • mispronunciation — (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
  • mission-critical — essential for a project to launch
  • misspecification — An incorrect specification.
  • mistranscription — the act or process of transcribing.
  • monopolistically — In a monopolistic manner.
  • monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
  • mos technologies — MOS Technology
  • mount kosciuszko — a mountain in Australia, in SE New South Wales in the Australian Alps: the highest peak in Australia. Height: 2230 m (7316 ft)
  • mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • musique concrete — tape-recorded musical and natural sounds, often electronically distorted, arranged in planned combinations, sequences, and rhythmic patterns to create an artistic work.
  • mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system)   (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
  • mutual recursion — recursion
  • nanotechnologies — Plural form of nanotechnology.
  • nanotechnologist — Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.
  • narcotics charge — a criminal charge or accusation concerning the use or dealing of illegal drugs
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