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16-letter words containing m, a, r

  • mineral charcoal — a fibrous substance resembling charcoal and having a high carbon content, often occurring in thin layers in bituminous coal.
  • mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
  • minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • miniature camera — a small camera using film that is 35 millimeters wide or less.
  • miniature poodle — a breed of poodle, bred to be much smaller than standard poodles
  • minority carrier — the entity responsible for carrying the lesser part of the current in a semiconductor
  • minstrel gallery — a gallery in a building meant for use by musicians playing to provide background music or entertainment at a feast or other event
  • mint is not trac — (text, tool)   (MINT) A version of TRAC used as the extension language in the Freemacs editor.
  • minute secretary — the person responsible for noting the minutes of a meeting
  • miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
  • misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
  • misapprehensions — Plural form of misapprehension.
  • misappropriating — Present participle of misappropriate.
  • misappropriation — to put to a wrong use.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • mispronunciation — (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
  • missile launcher — system that fires missiles
  • mission-critical — essential for a project to launch
  • missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
  • mistranscription — the act or process of transcribing.
  • misunderestimate — (colloquial, malapropism, or, intentionally incorrect) To underestimate by mistake.
  • misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • modern icelandic — the Icelandic language since c1550.
  • modern languages — languages currently spoken
  • modified-release — denoting a formulation of a medicinal drug taken orally that releases the active ingredients over several hours, in order to maintain a relatively constant plasma concentration of the drug
  • modular language — (language)   (Modula) Wirth's 1977 predecessor of Modula-2. The original Modula was, more oriented toward concurrent programming, but otherwise quite similar.
  • mohammed of ghor — (Mu'izz-ad-din) died 1206, Muslim Sultan of Ghazni 1173–1206: established Muslim power in India.
  • molecular volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a substance
  • molecular weight — the average weight of a molecule of an element or compound measured in units once based on the weight of one hydrogen atom taken as the standard or on 1/16 (0.0625) the weight of an oxygen atom, but after 1961 based on 1/12 (0.083) the weight of the carbon-12 atom; the sum of the atomic weights of all the atoms in a molecule. Abbreviation: mol. wt.
  • molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
  • money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
  • monochromaticity — of or having one color.
  • monotransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being monotransitive.
  • montague grammar — a model-theoretic semantic theory for natural language that seeks to encompass indexical expressions and opaque contexts within an extensional theory by constructing set-theoretic representations of the intension of an expression in terms of functions of possible worlds
  • montpelier maple — a maple, Acer monspessulanum, that is native to southern Europe and Northwest Africa
  • moral philosophy — philosophy dealing with the principles of morality; ethics.
  • moral rearmament — a worldwide movement initiated by Frank Buchman in 1938 as a successor to the Oxford Group, and maintaining that the practice of high morality in public and private life is the key to world betterment. Abbreviation: MRA.
  • moravska ostrava — former name of Ostrava.
  • morera's theorem — the theorem that a function is analytic in a simply connected domain if its integral is zero around every simple closed curve of finite length in the domain.
  • morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
  • mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
  • mortgage payment — instalment paid on a housebuyer's loan
  • mortgagee clause — a clause attached to a fire-insurance policy for protecting a mortgagee against loss or damage.
  • mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • motorola 68lc040 — (processor)   A version of the Motorola 68040 with no MMU or FPU, making it more like an enhanced Motorola 68020. A Power Macintosh can emulate a Motorola 68LC040.
  • mount carmel man — an early human of Neanderthaloid type, known from skeletal remains from the late Pleistocene Epoch, c50,000–40,000 b.c., found in Palestine.
  • mount erymanthus — a mountain in SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese. Height: 2224 m (7297 ft)
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
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