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14-letter words containing l, e, m

  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • microsatellite — A miniature satellite.
  • microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
  • middle america — average middle-class Americans as a group, as distinguished from the rich or poor or the politically extreme.
  • middle chinese — the Chinese language of the 7th and 8th centuries a.d. Abbreviation: MChin.
  • middle eastern — Also called Mideast. (loosely) the area from Libya E to Afghanistan, usually including Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the other countries of the Arabian peninsula.
  • middle england — Journalists use Middle England to refer to middle class people in England who are believed not to like change.
  • middle english — the English language of the period c1150–c1475. Abbreviation: ME.
  • middle flemish — the Flemish language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
  • middle iranian — any of the Iranian languages spoken from about the first to the tenth centuries a.d., as Middle Persian.
  • middle kingdom — Also called Middle Empire. the period in the history of ancient Egypt, c2000–1785 b.c., comprising the 11th to 14th dynasties. Compare New Kingdom, Old Kingdom.
  • middle lamella — the layer of cementing material, composed of pectates and similar substances, between the walls of adjacent cells.
  • middle passage — the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.
  • middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
  • middle western — of or relating to the Middle West.
  • middle-ranking — A middle-ranking person has a fairly important or responsible position in a particular organization, but is not one of the most important people in it.
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • midlife crisis — a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.
  • mileage ticket — a book (mileage book) or ticket containing coupons good for a certain number of miles of transportation at a fixed rate per mile.
  • milieu therapy — a type of inpatient therapy, used in psychiatric hospitals, involving prescription of particular activities and social interactions according to a patient's emotional and interpersonal needs.
  • milk and water — If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water.
  • milk chocolate — chocolate that has been mixed with milk.
  • milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
  • millenarianism — a belief in the millennium.
  • millennialists — Plural form of millennialist.
  • millennium bug — Year 2000
  • miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • milling cutter — any of various rotating toothed cutters used in a milling machine to cut or shape metal parts
  • millivoltmeter — A voltmeter that is sensitive enough to produce readings on the millivolt scale.
  • mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
  • mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.
  • mineralisation — Alternative spelling of mineralization.
  • mineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • mining geology — geology applied to the exploitation of mineral deposits.
  • ministerialist — A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
  • minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
  • mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
  • miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
  • miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
  • miscellanarian — a person who writes miscellanies
  • 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.
  • miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
  • misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
  • mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
  • mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
  • mittag-leffler — Magnus Gösta [mahng-nuhs yœ-stah] /ˈmɑŋ nʌs ˈyœ stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1846–1927, Swedish mathematician.
  • mixed blessing — something that, although generally favorable or advantageous, has one or more unfavorable or disadvantageous features.
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