15-letter words containing l, a, m, e, n
- malay peninsula — a peninsula in SE Asia, consisting of W (mainland) Malaysia and the S part of Thailand.
- male chauvinism — the beliefs, attitudes, or behavior of male chauvinists (men who patronize, disparage, or otherwise denigrate females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit).
- 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.
- manila envelope — a large, usually brown, envelope, designed to carry documents without them having to be folded
- mannerheim line — a zone of Finnish fortification erected along part of the border between Finland and Russia before the Finno-Russian War.
- mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
- 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.
- mariano vallejo — César [Spanish se-sahr] /Spanish ˈsɛ sɑr/ (Show IPA), 1895–1938, Peruvian poet.
- marianske lazne — a spa in W Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic. 18,510.
- marie byrd land — former name of Byrd Land.
- market analysis — the process of determining factors, conditions, and characteristics of a market.
- markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
- martensitically — in a martensitic manner
- masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
- 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.
- meals on wheels — a program, usually one supported or subsidized by a charitable, social, or government agency, for delivering hot meals regularly to elderly, disabled, or convalescing persons who are housebound and cannot cook for themselves.
- mean solar time — time measured by the hour angle of the mean sun.
- meaninglessness — without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant: a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.
- measurelessness — The state or condition of being measureless.
- measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
- mechanic's lien — a lien secured on property, as an automobile, building, or the like, by the contractor who has repaired or built it, in order to ensure payment for labor and materials.
- mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
- mechanical pulp — groundwood pulp.
- 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.
- mechanochemical — involving the conversion of chemical energy into mechanical energy
- 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
- medicinal leech — a bloodsucking leech, Hirudo medicinalis, of Europe, introduced into the northeastern U.S., usually green with brown stripes, up to 4 inches (10 cm) long: once used by physicians to bleed patients.
- medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
- medullary canal — the central area of a bone, containing marrow
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- melamine-coated — covered with an outer layer of melamine
- melancholically — disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
- melville island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, N of Canada, belonging to Canada. 200 miles (320 km) long; 130 miles (210 km) wide.
- 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).
- mendeleev's law — periodic law (def 2).