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

  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
  • isoimmunization — the development of isoantibodies within an individual in order to protect against antigens derived from a different member of the same species
  • isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
  • italian jasmine — an evergreen shrub, Jasminum humile, of the olive family, having fragrant, golden-yellow flowers.
  • james rainwater — (Leo) James, 1917–86, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1975.
  • janissary music — music characteristic of or imitative of that played by a Turkish military band, typically employing cymbals, triangles, bass drum, and Turkish crescents.
  • jeffersonianism — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
  • joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
  • junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
  • kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
  • karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
  • king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
  • kommunizma peak — a mountain in SE Tajikistan in the Pamirs: the highest mountain in the former Soviet Union. Height: 7495 m (24 590 ft)
  • lake mistassini — a lake in E Canada, in N Quebec: the largest lake in the province; drains through the Rupert River into James Bay. Area: 2175 sq km (840 sq miles). Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
  • laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
  • lamino-alveolar — articulated with the blade of the tongue approaching the alveolar ridge.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • lateral moraine — a moraine formed at the side of a glacier.
  • latino-american — an American who is of Latin-American or Spanish origin
  • lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
  • lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • lethal mutation — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
  • lexical meaning — the meaning of a base morpheme.
  • 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.
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • 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 manifold — subspace (def 2b).
  • 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
  • loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
  • loan investment — a loan made as an investment
  • lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
  • logging company — a company that fells trees and sells timber
  • 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
  • lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
  • macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
  • machine gunning — the act of using a machine gun
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
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