13-letter words containing m, a, n, c, l
- functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
- funeral march — march played for funeral processions
- galactomannan — (carbohydrate) Any of a class of polysaccharides, found in many gums, having a backbone composed of mannose with galactose sidechains.
- galactosamine — an amino sugar that is a major component of glycolipids and chondroitin.
- gallo-romance — the vernacular language, a development from Latin, spoken in France from about a.d. 600 to 900. Abbreviation: Gallo-Rom.
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
- games console — Also called game(s) console, gaming console, video-game console. a computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound.
- gastronomical — the art or science of good eating.
- general magic — A software company based in Mountain View, California. Products released in 1994 after four years in development include: Telescript - a communications-oriented programming language; Magic Cap - an OOPS designed for PDAs; and a new, third generation GUI. Motorola's Envoy, due for release in the third quarter of 1994, will use Magic Cap as its OS. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols. Competitors for Magic Cap include Microsoft's Windows for Pens/Winpad, PenPoint, Apple Computer's Newton Intelligence and GEOS by GeoWorks.
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- guzman blanco — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1829–99, Venezuelan political leader: president 1870–88.
- gymnastically — In a gymnastic manner.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
- human capital — the collective skills, knowledge, or other intangible assets of individuals that can be used to create economic value for the individuals, their employers, or their community: Education is an investment in human capital that pays off in terms of higher productivity.
- human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
- human ecology — ecology (def 4).
- hyponymically — In a hyponymic way.
- immunological — (immunology) Of, or relating to immunology.
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- implicational — something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood: to resent an implication of dishonesty.
- incidentaloma — an abnormal lesion or tumor detected by chance during a medical imaging test, physical examination, or surgery.
- inclinatorium — an instrument invented by Robert Norman in 1576, used to determine the degree to which a magnetic needle dips towards the earth; a dipping needle
- inclusion map — a map of a set to itself in which each element of a given subset of the set is mapped to itself.
- incompatibles — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- incrementally — increasing or adding on, especially in a regular series: small, incremental tax hikes.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- interlacement — to cross one another, typically passing alternately over and under, as if woven together; intertwine: Their hands interlaced.
- intermetallic — (inorganic chemistry) of, relating to, acting between, or comprising two or more metals.
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
- ismaticalness — the quality of following isms or fashionable doctrines
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- lacedaemonian — of or relating to ancient Sparta; Spartan.
- lacrimal bone — a small, thin, membrane bone forming the front part of the inner wall of each orbit.
- lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- lamellibranch — bivalve.
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
- latin america — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
- leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
- local minimum — minimum (def 5a).