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14-letter words containing m, i, d, l, e, s

  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • midlife crisis — a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.
  • misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
  • mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
  • mixed blessing — something that, although generally favorable or advantageous, has one or more unfavorable or disadvantageous features.
  • mixed feelings — conflicted emotions
  • modern english — the English language since c1475.
  • modestly sized — moderately sized; not very large, but not small
  • monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
  • moon blindness — a disease of horses in which the eyes suffer from recurring attacks of inflammation, eventually resulting in opacity and blindness.
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • muscle spindle — Cell Biology. a proprioceptor in skeletal muscle, composed of striated muscle fibers and sensory nerve endings in a connective tissue sheath, that conveys information via the spinal nerves on the state of muscle stretch, important in the reflex mechanism that maintains body posture.
  • musical comedy — musical (def 5).
  • muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
  • myelodysplasia — (medicine) Any of various conditions characterized by the faulty or inadequate production of bone marrow or blood cells.
  • new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
  • non-admissible — that may be allowed or conceded; allowable: an admissible plan.
  • nondimensional — Not dimensional.
  • oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • plumbous oxide — litharge.
  • pseudo-medical — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
  • quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
  • quasi-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • remedilessness — the state or quality of being remediless or incapable of being restored or corrected
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • sedimentologic — of or relating to sedimentology
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • semper fidelis — always faithful
  • service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
  • sesquipedalism — given to using long words.
  • shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
  • sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • silver bromide — a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.
  • simple-hearted — free of deceit; artless; sincere.
  • simplex method — a numerical method for solving problems in linear programming.
  • single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
  • slide magazine — a piece of equipment that holds slides and pushes them into a projector
  • slide mountain — a mountain in SE New York: highest peak of the Catskill Mountains. 4204 feet (1280 meters).
  • slide trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
  • sodium lactate — a water-soluble, hygroscopic salt, C 3 H 5 NaO 3 , used in solution in medicine to treat metabolic acidosis, usually by injection.
  • sodium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 , used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes, soaps, detergents, glass, and ceramic glazes.
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