14-letter words containing l, e, m
- movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
- moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
- mpeg-1 layer 3 — MPEG-1 audio layer 3
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- muddle through — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
- muddleheadedly — In a muddleheaded manner.
- mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
- multarticulate — having multiple joints
- 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.
- multi-part key — compound key
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multi-talented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
- multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multicharacter — (of a book, play, film, etc) involving or relating to several characters
- multicollinear — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting multicollinearity.
- multicomponent — Having, or affecting, multiple components.
- multidialectal — encompassing or involving several dialects
- multielectrode — having or involving several electrodes
- multiethnicity — The state of being multiethnic.
- multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
- multigrade oil — Multigrade oil is engine or gear oil which works well at both low and high temperatures.
- multilaterally — In a multilateral manner.
- multimolecular — (chemistry, physics) Involving multiple molecules.
- multinucleated — Having multiple nuclei; multinucleate.
- multiparameter — Having, or employing multiple parameters.
- multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
- multiple drill — a drilling machine having a number of vertical spindles for drilling several holes in a piece simultaneously.
- multiple fruit — a fruit, such as a pineapple, formed from the ovaries of individual flowers in an inflorescence
- multiple store — chain store.
- multiple value — (database) (MU) A one-to-many relationship between entries in a database, for example a person may have an address field which spanned multiple records (with different indexes). Multiple values are a non-relational technique. MUs have recently been made available in DB2, despite the product being so heavily influenced by Codd's Laws of relational databases.
- multiplicative — tending to multiply or increase.
- multiplicities — Plural form of multiplicity.
- multipotential — able to differentiate along several lines
- multiprocessor — parallel processing
- multireligious — belonging to or following more than one religion
- multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- multispecialty — (US) Exhibiting or possessing multiple specialties (especially medical specialties).
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- multiversities — Plural form of multiversity.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- muscle spindle — Cell Biology. a proprioceptor in skeletal muscle, composed of striated muscle fibers and sensory nerve endings in a connective tissue sheath, that conveys information via the spinal nerves on the state of muscle stretch, important in the reflex mechanism that maintains body posture.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- museologically — In a museological manner.
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- musical comedy — musical (def 5).
- muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
- mutual insurer — A mutual insurer is an insurance company which is owned by its members or policyholders rather than by shareholders.
- mutual society — co-operative organization
- myelencephalon — the posterior section of the hindbrain comprising the medulla oblongata.