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15-letter words containing m, a, s, r, n

  • kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • laser treatment — any of various medical and surgical techniques using lasers, such as the removal of small growths
  • lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • macrosporangium — megasporangium.
  • magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
  • main royal mast — the part of the mainmast situated immediately above, and generally formed as a single spar with, the main topgallantmast.
  • majoritarianism — rule by a majority, especially the belief that those constituting a simple majority should make the rules for all members of a group, nation, etc.
  • make one's mark — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
  • man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • man-of-war fish — a small, tropical fish, Nomeus gronovii, that lives among the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war.
  • manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
  • manorial system — manorialism.
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • manx shearwater — a European oceanic bird, Puffinus puffinus, with long slender wings and black-and-white plumage: family Procellariidae (shearwaters)
  • marc andreessen — (person)   The man who founded Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1994 with Dr. James H. Clark. Andreessen has been a director since September 1994. As an undergraduate at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Andreessen created the Mosaic web browser prototype with a team of students and staff at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). With a friendly, point-and-click method for navigating the Internet and free distribution to network users, NCSA Mosaic gained an estimated two million users worldwide in just over one year. Andreessen earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science at the University of Illinois in 1993.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • marcus antonius — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
  • marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
  • marginalisation — (British) alternative spelling of marginalization.
  • mariana islands — a group of 15 small islands in the Pacific, E of the Philippines: divided into Guam, a possession of the U.S., and the North Marianas, formally under U.S. trusteeship. 453 sq. mi. (1127 sq. km).
  • marianske lazne — a spa in W Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic. 18,510.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • market analysis — the process of determining factors, conditions, and characteristics of a market.
  • marsh andromeda — a low-growing pink-flowered ericaceous evergreen shrub, Andromeda polifolia, that grows in peaty bogs of northern regions
  • martensitically — in a martensitic manner
  • mascarene grass — a creeping grass, Zoysia tenuifolia, naturalized in California and Florida, having fine leaves and shoots that make good turf.
  • masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
  • mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
  • master mechanic — a mechanic, especially one who is thoroughly skilled, in charge of other mechanics.
  • master sergeant — Army, Air Force, Marine Corps. a noncommissioned officer ranking next to the highest noncommissioned officer.
  • master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • materialisation — Alternative spelling of materialization.
  • maternity dress — a dress worn by a pregnant woman and which is designed to allow for the changes in body size which take place during pregnancy
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