14-letter words containing l, i, n, t, o
- medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
- medicalization — The act or process of medicalizing.
- mental lexicon — the store of words in a person's mind
- metallogenetic — metallogenic
- metallokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals.
- methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
- methylthionine — as in methylthionine chloride, a dark green dye used as a stain, antiseptic etc
- meticulousness — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- metronomically — a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
- microevolution — evolutionary change involving the gradual accumulation of mutations leading to new varieties within a species.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- militarisation — The process by which something such as an area of land or a function of government becomes dependent on or subordinate to the military, or military in its attributes or practices.
- militarization — to equip with armed forces, military supplies, or the like.
- 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.
- minicalculator — a very small handheld calculator
- minilaparotomy — Surgery. laparotomy with a small incision into the abdomen, often no more than 1 inch (2.5 cm), used especially for tubal ligation.
- minimalization — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- misallocations — Plural form of misallocation.
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misapplication — to make a wrong application or use of.
- miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
- 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.
- misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
- mistranslation — An incorrect translation.
- misutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- mnemotechnical — Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
- mobile canteen — a truck or lorry with kitchen facilities that can be used on site, such as on a film set, construction site, as a soup kitchen, etc
- modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
- mongrelization — to subject (a breed, group, etc.) to crossbreeding, especially with one considered inferior.
- monocratically — In a monocratic manner.
- monolithically — of or relating to a monolith.
- mononucleotide — (genetics) A single nucleotide.
- monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- monopolisation — Alternative spelling of monopolization.
- monopolization — to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
- monotheletical — like a monothelete
- mont-st-michel — islet just off the NW coast of France, noted for its fortified abbey
- monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
- moonlight flit — a hurried departure at night, esp from rented accommodation to avoid payment of rent owed
- morganatically — In a morganatic manner.
- motionlessness — The property of being motionless.
- motivationally — In a motivational manner.
- motorola, inc. — (company) One of the world's leading providers of wireless communications, semiconductors and advanced electronic systems and services. Major equipment businesses include mobile telephone, two-way radio, paging and data communications, personal communications, automotive, defense and space electronics, computers, satellite communications systems, police and emergency service radio systems, taxicab dispatching (radio) systems. Communication devices, computers and millions of consumer products are powered by Motorola semiconductors. They are probably best known in the computing world for their microprocessors, including the Motorola 6800 and Motorola 68000 CISC families and Motorola 88000 RISCs, the Motorola DSP56000 digital signal processors and the PowerPC on which they collaborated. They also led the development of VMEbus. Quarterly sales $5400M, profits $367M (Aug 1994). See also Envoy, Monsoon, MPL. Address: Schaumberg, Illinois, USA.
- mount mckinley — a mountain in S central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6190 meters).
- mountain nyala — a similar and related Ethiopian animal, T. buxtoni, lacking the white crest