15-letter words containing l, m, d
- medullary canal — the central area of a bone, containing marrow
- medulloblastoma — (oncology) A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum.
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- melamine-coated — covered with an outer layer of melamine
- melville island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, N of Canada, belonging to Canada. 200 miles (320 km) long; 130 miles (210 km) wide.
- mendeleev's law — periodic law (def 2).
- mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
- mental handicap — learning disability
- meridian circle — a transit instrument provided with a graduated vertical scale, used to measure the declinations of heavenly bodies and to determine the time of meridian transits.
- methyl chloride — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Cl, used chiefly as a refrigerant, as a local anesthetic, and as a methylating agent in organic synthesis.
- methylphenidate — a central nervous system stimulant, C 1 4 H 1 9 NO 2 , used in the control of hyperkinetic syndromes and narcolepsy.
- michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- middelmannetjie — (South Africa) Ridge between ruts made by wheels in a dirt or gravel road.
- middle american — average middle-class Americans as a group, as distinguished from the rich or poor or the politically extreme.
- middle distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
- middle palisade — a mountain of the Sierra Nevada in EC California, one of the Palisades Peaks in the Sierra Nevada 14,040 feet (4279 meters).
- middle-distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
- miles and miles — a long distance
- milk of almonds — almond milk.
- milkweed beetle — any of several small red, black-spotted elongated beetles of the genus Tetraopes, common in eastern North America, that inhabit the milkweed.
- milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- minkowski world — a four-dimensional space in which the fourth coordinate is time and in which a single event is represented as a point.
- minority leader — the party member who directs the activities of the minority party on the floor of a legislative body, as of the U.S. Congress.
- missile address — ICBM address
- mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
- mixolydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from G to G.
- modal auxiliary — Grammar. any of the group of English auxiliary verbs, including can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, and must, that are used with the base form of another verb to express distinctions of mood.
- modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
- modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
- modulo operator — (mathematics) (mod) The operator that returns the remainder after integer division of its first argument by its second. Written as "%" in C and some other languages. Where the second argument is a power of two, the result can be calculated much more quickly using bitwise and with the appropriate bit-mask.
- mole salamander — ambystomid.
- molecular cloud — a cool dense interstellar region composed of a wide variety of molecules, mainly hydrogen, plus some dust, in which stars are forming
- mollier diagram — a graph showing the enthalpy of a substance as a function of its entropy when some physical property of the substance, as temperature or pressure, is kept at a specified constant value.
- monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
- mongolian idiot — a person affected with Down syndrome
- monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
- mononucleotides — Plural form of mononucleotide.
- moral turpitude — conduct that is regarded as immoral.
- morbidity table — A morbidity table is a statistical table that shows the proportion of people that are expected to become sick or injured at each age.
- mortgage lender — a financial institution which provides money to borrowers for mortgages
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- multi-channeled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
- multidiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
- multihomed host — A host which has more than one connection to a network. The host may send and receive data over any of the links but will not route traffic for other nodes.
- multiple-valued — many-valued.
- multitudinously — In a multitudinous way.