15-letter words containing m, i, r, f, c
- interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
- limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
- malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
- man-made fabric — a type of fabric that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
- marie de france — flourished 12th century, French poet in England.
- medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
- meissner effect — the loss of magnetism that a superconductor displays when cooled to its transition temperature in a magnetic field.
- member function — A method in C++.
- michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
- microfiltration — Filtration through a microporous membrane.
- micromicrofarad — picofarad. Symbol: μμF.
- microsoft basic — (language) (MS-BASIC) A dialect of BASIC from Microsoft, originally developed by Bill Gates in a garage back in the CP/M days. It was originally known as GWBasic, then QBASIC and finally MS-BASIC. When the MS-DOS operating system came out, it incorporated the GWBASIC.EXE or BASICA.EXE interpreters. GWBASIC ("Gee Whiz") incorporated graphics and a screen editor and was compatible with earlier BASICs. QBASIC was more sophisticated. Version 4.5 had a full screen editor, debugger and compiler. The compiler could also produce executable files but to run these a utility program (BRUN44.EXE) had to be present. Thus source code could be kept private. From DOS 5.0 or 6.0 onward, MS-BASIC was standard. Version 1.1 produced stand-alone executables and could display graphics.
- microsoft excel — (tool) A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world.
- moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
- molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
- multiple factor — polygene.
- myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
- nitrochloroform — chloropicrin.
- nonconformities — Plural form of nonconformity.
- officer of arms — an officer with the duties of a herald, especially one charged with the devising, granting, or confirming of armorial bearings.
- organic farming — farming with organic methods
- pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
- perimeter fence — fence surrounding an area
- picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
- platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
- rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
- riemann surface — a geometric representation of a function of a complex variable in which a multiple-valued function is depicted as a single-valued function on several planes, the planes being connected at some of the points at which the function takes on more than one value.
- rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
- scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
- securities firm — a firm that deals in securities
- self-enrichment — an act of enriching.
- self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- semimanufacture — a product which forms an intermediate stage in the manufacture of another, often more complex product
- service uniform — a uniform for routine duties and service, as distinguished from work, dress, or full-dress uniforms.
- simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
- simple fracture — a fracture in which the bone does not pierce the skin.
- sister of mercy — a member of a congregation of sisters founded in Dublin in 1827 by Catherine McAuley (1787–1841) and engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy.
- theatrical film — a film made for exhibition in theaters, as distinguished from one made for television.
- time difference — the difference in clock time between two or more different time zones
- traffic calming — Traffic calming consists of measures designed to make roads safer, for example making them narrower or placing obstacles in them, so that drivers are forced to slow down.
- traffic manager — a person who supervises the transportation of goods for an employer.
- ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.