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15-letter words containing m, e, a, t, n

  • lateral moraine — a moraine formed at the side of a glacier.
  • latino-american — an American who is of Latin-American or Spanish origin
  • law of the mean — the theorem that for a function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on the corresponding open interval, there is a point in the interval such that the difference in functional values at the endpoints is equal to the derivative evaluated at the particular point and multiplied by the difference in the endpoints.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • lethal mutation — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • 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.
  • levi-montalciniRita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • limited partner — special partner.
  • line management — those managers in an organization who are responsible for the main activity or product of the organization, as distinct from those, such as transport, accounting, or personnel, who provide services to the line management
  • linear argument — (theory)   A function argument which is used exactly once by the function. If the argument is used at most once then it is safe to inline the function and replace the single occurrence of the formal parameter with the actual argument expression. If the argument was used more than once this transformation would duplicate the argument expression, causing it to be evaluated more than once. If the argument is sure to be used at least once then it is safe to evaluate it in advance (see strictness analysis) whereas if the argument was not used then this would waste work and might prevent the program from terminating.
  • linear momentum — force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: The car gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost momentum after two unsuccessful films.
  • little magazine — a magazine, usually small in format and of limited circulation, that publishes literary works.
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • loan investment — a loan made as an investment
  • long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
  • low-maintenance — requiring little attention or upkeep
  • lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • lymphadenopathy — chronically swollen lymph nodes.
  • lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
  • magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
  • magnetic mirror — a region in a magnetic bottle where the magnetic field increases abruptly, causing charged particles that enter it to be reflected.
  • magnetic moment — a vector quantity associated with a given electric current, magnet, or the like, having the property that its vector product with the magnetic induction equals the torque acting on the given object.
  • magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
  • magnetic pickup — a phonograph pickup in which the vibrations of the stylus cause variations in or motions of a coil in a magnetic field that produces corresponding variations in an electrical voltage.
  • magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
  • magnetoelectric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
  • magnetoreceptor — The part of an organism responsible for magnetoreception.
  • magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
  • maidenhair tree — ginkgo.
  • maidenhair-tree — ginkgo.
  • 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.
  • maintenance man — man who carries out repairs
  • make a point of — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • make a thing of — to make a fuss about; exaggerate the importance of
  • make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
  • make mention of — allude to
  • make no mistake — believe me, let me assure you
  • make nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
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