15-letter words containing l, a, m, e, n, t
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
- malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
- manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
- maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manganese steel — any of various steels containing manganese, especially one that has up to 14 percent manganese, used in work involving heavy strains and impacts.
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- manorial system — manorialism.
- manual alphabet — a set of finger configurations corresponding to the letters of the alphabet, used by the deaf in fingerspelling.
- manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
- market analysis — the process of determining factors, conditions, and characteristics of a market.
- martensitically — in a martensitic manner
- master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
- master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- materialisation — Alternative spelling of materialization.
- materialization — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- maternity leave — a leave of absence for an expectant or new mother for the birth and care of the baby.
- mean solar time — time measured by the hour angle of the mean sun.
- mechanical twin — a crystalline twin formed by the strain set up by an applied force.
- mechanistically — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
- mechlorethamine — a nitrogen mustard, C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, used in combination with other drugs in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and certain other cancers.
- medical student — trainee doctor
- medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
- melamine-coated — covered with an outer layer of melamine
- memorialization — to commemorate.
- memory location — (storage) A byte, word or other small unit of storage space in a computer's main memory that is identified by its starting address (and size).
- menstrual cycle — (in women of reproductive age) the cycle of physiological changes affecting the reproductive organs that takes place typically over a month and includes ovulation, thickening of the lining of the womb and menstruation if fertilization of the egg has not occurred
- mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
- mental handicap — learning disability
- mental hospital — psychiatric institution
- mephistophelean — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mephistophelian — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- merchantability — The state of being merchantable.
- metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
- metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
- metallo-organic — organometallic.
- metallotolerant — (biology) Any extremophile that is able to tolerate a high concentration metal ions in its environment.
- metanitrophenol — any compound derived from phenol by the replacement of one or more of its ring hydrogen atoms by the nitro group.
- methylcobalamin — A cobalamin used to treat neuropathies.
- methylphenidate — a central nervous system stimulant, C 1 4 H 1 9 NO 2 , used in the control of hyperkinetic syndromes and narcolepsy.
- methylpropanone — (organic compound) The industrial solvent butanone.
- metropolitanate — the office or province of a metropolitan
- metropolitanism — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
- metropolitanize — to make metropolitan.
- mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- middelmannetjie — (South Africa) Ridge between ruts made by wheels in a dirt or gravel road.
- middle distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
- middle-distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.