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14-letter words containing m, i, n, a

  • margin account — an account opened by a customer with a brokerage house in which listed securities can be purchased on margin.
  • marginal hacks — (humour)   Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
  • mariana trench — a depression in the ocean floor of the Pacific, S and W of the Mariana Islands: site of greatest known depth of any ocean. 36,201 feet (11,034 meters) deep.
  • mariano arista — Mariano [mah-ryah-naw] /mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1802–55, Mexican general: president of Mexico 1851–53.
  • 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.
  • marine science — the branch of science concerned with the sea
  • marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • martin du gard — Roger [raw-zhey] /rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1958, French novelist: Nobel prize 1937.
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • master mariner — a sailor who has achieved a level of competence and experience to be qualified to act as captain of a merchant ship
  • masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • mastocarcinoma — carcinoma of the breast.
  • matara diamond — a zircon heat-treated to render it colorless: not a true diamond.
  • maternity home — a house in which a pregnant woman can live until her baby is born, esp one for women who became pregnant out of wedlock and whose baby is going to be put up for adoption
  • maternity ward — hospital room for new mothers
  • mathematicians — Plural form of mathematician.
  • matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
  • matrimony vine — any plant belonging to the genus Lycium, of the nightshade family, species of which are cultivated for their foliage, flowers, and berries.
  • matter in deed — a fact or statement that can be proved or established by a deed or specialty.
  • mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
  • meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
  • mean deviation — a measure of dispersion, computed by taking the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of the deviations of the functional values from some central value, usually the mean or median.
  • meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • meat and drink — a source of pleasure
  • 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.
  • mediastinotomy — (surgery) incision of the mediastinum.
  • medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
  • medicalization — The act or process of medicalizing.
  • medicamentally — in a manner that relates to medicaments
  • medicine dance — a ritual dance performed by some North American Indians to invoke supernatural assistance as for driving out disease.
  • medicine woman — (among North American Indians and some other aboriginal peoples) a woman believed to possess magical or supernatural powers; a female shaman.
  • medieval latin — the Latin language of the literature of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500, including many Latinized words from other languages. Abbreviation: ML, M.L.
  • meditativeness — The quality of being meditative.
  • mefenamic acid — a white powder, C 1 5 H 1 5 NO 2 , used as a mild analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and antipyretic in certain types of arthritis and for the relief of moderate short-term pain due to dysmenorrhea.
  • megalomaniacal — a person afflicted with megalomania.
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • melamine resin — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the interaction of melamine and formaldehyde: used chiefly as adhesives for laminated materials and as coatings for paper, plastics, and textiles.
  • melamine-faced — having a thin melamine layer on one or more faces
  • melancholiness — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
  • memory mapping — a technique whereby computer peripherals may be addressed as though they formed part of the main memory of the computer
  • menage a trois — a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household.
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