14-letter words containing m, a, c, n, e, s
- micromagnetism — (physics) The study of magnetism at the sub-micrometre scale.
- mie scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are large relative to the wavelength of the light.
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- misacceptation — misinterpretation
- miscellanarian — a person who writes miscellanies
- miscommunicate — (ambitransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
- 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.
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- misremembrance — An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
- mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- narcoterrorism — terrorist tactics employed by dealers in illicit drugs, as against competitors or government agents.
- necessarianism — (philosophy, metaphysics, theology) An extreme form of determinism that holds that all phenomena, including the will, are subject to immutable rules of cause and effect; necessitarianism.
- neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
- neocolonialism — the policy of a strong nation in seeking political and economic hegemony over an independent nation or extended geographical area without necessarily reducing the subordinate nation or area to the legal status of a colony.
- neoromanticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) Fine Arts. a style of painting developed in the 20th century, chiefly characterized by forms or images that project a sense of nostalgia and fantasy.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
- nietzscheanism — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
- non-consumable — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- noncompensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
- nonmechanistic — Not mechanistic.
- nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
- nuclear isomer — isomer (def 2).
- ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
- omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
- open classroom — a spacious instructional area shared by several groups or classes in elementary school, permitting more individualized, less supervised project learning and movement of pupils from one activity to another.
- osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
- overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- placement test — a test to determine a student's level of ability in one or more subjects in order to place the student with others of the same approximate ability.
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
- precision-made — made to precise specifications
- quasi-economic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.