13-letter words containing m, c, i, n
- meeting place — A meeting place is a place where people meet.
- megalomaniacs — Plural form of megalomaniac.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- mellification — the production of honey from nectar
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- memo function — (programming) (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
- meningococcal — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or caused by meningococci.
- meningococcic — relating to, or caused by, the meningococcus bacterium
- meningococcus — a reniform or spherical bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis, that causes cerebrospinal meningitis.
- mercenariness — The state or condition of being mercenary.
- mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
- mercerisation — A process of treating cotton with sodium hydroxide in order to make it more lustrous.
- mercerization — to treat (cotton yarns or fabric) with caustic alkali under tension, in order to increase strength, luster, and affinity for dye.
- merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- mercilessness — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
- mercurialness — Quality of being mercurial; mercuriality.
- mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
- mesencephalic — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- messianically — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
- metacognition — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- metacognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- metafictional — Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metalcrafting — metalworking.
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- metallic lens — an arrangement of louvres used to direct and focus electromagnetic or sound waves
- metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metasemantics — (linguistics) The part of metalanguage that deals with semantics.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- metonic cycle — a cycle of 235 synodic months, very nearly equal to 19 years, after which the new moon occurs on the same day of the year as at the beginning of the cycle with perhaps a shift of one day, depending on the number of leap years in the cycle.
- metonymically — In a metonymic fashion; using metonymy.
- metrification — metrication.
- mexican apple — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
- mexican poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
- michelin star — a mark of distinction awarded by the Michelin travel guides to a restaurant in recognition of the high quality of its cooking. A restaurant may receive one, two, or three stars, representing very good, exceptional, or exquisite cuisine, respectively
- michigan city — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan.
- micr encoding — The MICR encoding of a check is the magnetic ink pattern at the bottom that can be scanned and that contains information about the check.
- micro-organic — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
- microanalyses — Plural form of microanalysis.
- microanalysis — Chemistry. the analysis of very small samples of substances.
- microaneurysm — An extremely small aneurysm.
- microbalances — Plural form of microbalance.
- microblogging — a blog that is smaller than a traditional blog and contains very short entries.
- microbusiness — A business that operates on a very small scale.
- microchipping — Present participle of microchip.
- microcracking — microscopic cracking
- microeconomic — Of, or relating to, a microeconomy.