13-letter words containing m, a, t, c
- 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.
- interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
- intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
- islamic state — an Islamist terrorist organization, formed in the early 21st century, whose aim is to create a caliphate in the Middle East and N Africa
- ismaticalness — the quality of following isms or fashionable doctrines
- isobarometric — isobaric
- isometrically — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- isosmotically — With the same osmotic pressure.
- john mccarthy — (person, artificial intelligence) A pioneer of artificial intelligence (he coined ther term). He invented Lisp at MIT in the late 1950s and later worked at SAIL. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
- 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.
- keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
- kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kitchen match — a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- lacrimal duct — either of two small ducts extending from the inner corner of each eyelid to the lacrimal sac.
- 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.
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- legacy system — (jargon) A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify. If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
- lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
- little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- logogrammatic — Of or pertaining to logograms; logographic.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- macadamia nut — edible seed
- machicolation — an opening in the floor between the corbels of a projecting gallery or parapet, as on a wall or in the vault of a passage, through which missiles, molten lead, etc., might be cast upon an enemy beneath.
- machilipatnam — a city in E Andhra Pradesh state, in S India, on the Bay of Bengal: first British trading settlement 1611.
- machinability — The condition of being machinable.
- machine-steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
- mackinaw coat — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
- macro-segment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- macroclimates — Plural form of macroclimate.
- macroclimatic — Relating to macroclimate.
- macrolecithal — megalecithal.
- macromutation — a mutation that has a profound effect on the resulting organism, as a change in a regulatory gene that controls the expression of many structural genes.
- macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
- macronutrient — Nutrition. any of the nutritional components of the diet that are required in relatively large amounts: protein, carbohydrate, fat, and the macrominerals.
- macroparasite — (biology) Any parasite that is visible to the naked eye.
- macroplankton — planktonic organisms of about 1 mm in length.