14-letter words containing m, e, l, i, n
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- literal-minded — unimaginative; prosaic; matter-of-fact.
- livery company — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
- load-line mark — any of various marks by which the allowable loading and the load line at load displacement are established for a merchant vessel; a load line.
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
- luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
- magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
- magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
- magnetooptical — Having both magnetic and optical elements.
- magniloquently — In a magniloquent manner.
- magnolia metal — an alloy used for bearings, consisting largely of lead (up to 80 per cent) and antimony, with the addition of smaller quantities of iron and tin
- magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
- mail exchanger — (messaging) A server running SMTP Message Transfer Agent software that accepts incoming electronic mail and either delivers it locally or forwards it to another server. The mail exchanger to use for a given domain can be discovered by querying DNS for Mail Exchange Records.
- maine-et-loire — a department in W France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Angers.
- majesticalness — the glory or majesty of someone or something
- make a hole in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- make a killing — If you make a killing, you make a large profit very quickly and easily.
- malapportioned — (of a state or other political unit) poorly apportioned, especially divided, organized, or structured in a manner that prevents large sections of a population from having equitable representation in a legislative body.
- male-dominated — with men in control
- malleable iron — malleable cast iron.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- man of galilee — Jesus.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- manipulatively — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- manitoba maple — a Canadian fast-growing variety of maple
- manometrically — Using a manometer.
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
- manuel noriega — Manuel Antonio, born 1934, military leader of Panama 1983–89: captured by U.S. forces and sentenced to prison for drug trafficking 1992.
- maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
- marine biology — science of sea life
- marine geology — the branch of geology dealing with the rocks, sediments, and processes of the floors and margins of the oceans.
- marine railway — a railway having a rolling cradle for hauling ships out of water onto land and returning them.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- mechanicalness — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being mechanical.
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- medial moraine — a ridge of glacial drift formed by the junction of two converging valley glaciers.
- medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
- medicalization — The act or process of medicalizing.
- medicamentally — in a manner that relates to medicaments
- medicine lodge — a structure used for various ceremonials of North American Indians.
- medicine wheel — a Native American ceremonial tool representing a sacred circle