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16-letter words containing m, c, v

  • machiavellianism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • macroenvironment — (biology) The large-scale and long-term environment and conditions that affect an organism.
  • magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
  • majority verdict — a decision supported by more than half, but not all, the jury
  • male-voice choir — a choir of male singers
  • manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
  • measuring device — gauge
  • mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
  • medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
  • melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • memorial service — ceremony held in commemoration
  • mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
  • merchant service — A merchant service is a provider of credit card processing services.
  • metavanadic acid — an oxyacid of vanadium, known chiefly in the form of its vanadate salts; Formula: H4V2O7
  • microenvironment — the environment of a small area or of a particular organism; microhabitat.
  • microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
  • military service — compulsory period spent in the army
  • molecular volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a substance
  • molotov cocktail — a crude incendiary grenade consisting of a bottle filled with a flammable liquid and a wick that is ignited before throwing: used originally for setting fire to enemy tanks during the Spanish Civil War.
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • multiplicatively — tending to multiply or increase.
  • native americans — a person born in the United States.
  • native companion — brolga.
  • neo-conservatism — (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies
  • nevado de colima — a volcano in SW Mexico, in Jalisco state. Height: 4339 m (14 235 ft)
  • non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
  • noncommunicative — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • oculomotor nerve — either one of the third pair of cranial nerves, consisting chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.
  • over-communicate — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
  • over-competitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
  • over-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • over-romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
  • overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
  • overcompensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
  • overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
  • pincers movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
  • primary deviance — the violation of a norm or rule that does not result in the violator's being stigmatized as deviant.
  • primitive church — the early Christian church, especially in reference to its earliest form and organization.
  • recovered memory — a memory of a past event that has been recalled after having been forgotten or repressed for a long time. Compare false-memory syndrome.
  • reverse commuter — a commuter who lives in a city and commutes to a job in the suburbs.
  • same-day service — (humour, operating system)   An ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute). Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not well-behaved. See also PC-ism.
  • selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
  • self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
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