0%

14-letter words containing m, i, s, l, n

  • modern english — the English language since c1475.
  • moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
  • monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
  • monolingualism — knowing or able to use only one language; monoglot.
  • monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
  • monopolisation — Alternative spelling of monopolization.
  • mont-st-michel — islet just off the NW coast of France, noted for its fortified abbey
  • moon blindness — a disease of horses in which the eyes suffer from recurring attacks of inflammation, eventually resulting in opacity and blindness.
  • moon jellyfish — a coelenterate, Aurelia aurita, inhabiting all seas, having a luminescent milky-pink or milky-orange, umbrellalike disk 3–9 inches (8–23 cm) in diameter.
  • motionlessness — The property of being motionless.
  • 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
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • multi-skilling — Multi-skilling is the practice of training employees to do a number of different tasks.
  • multinationals — Plural form of multinational.
  • multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
  • murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
  • musca volitans — floater (def 6).
  • 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.
  • musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
  • musicalization — the adaptation of a novel, play, etc into a musical form
  • muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
  • mutual insurer — A mutual insurer is an insurance company which is owned by its members or policyholders rather than by shareholders.
  • negri sembilan — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
  • neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
  • neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
  • neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
  • neo-melanesian — a pidgin language based on English and spoken in Melanesia, New Guinea, and NE Australia.
  • neo-surrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
  • neocolonialism — the policy of a strong nation in seeking political and economic hegemony over an independent nation or extended geographical area without necessarily reducing the subordinate nation or area to the legal status of a colony.
  • neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
  • neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
  • 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.
  • new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
  • nil nisi bonum — de mortuis nil nisi bonum
  • nominalisation — Standard spelling of nominalization.
  • non-admissible — that may be allowed or conceded; allowable: an admissible plan.
  • non-liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
  • non-malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
  • non-naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
  • noncombustible — not flammable.
  • nondimensional — Not dimensional.
  • nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
  • nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
  • normal divisor — a normal subgroup.
  • norman english — the dialect of English used by the Norman conquerors of England
  • nt file system — (file system)   (NTFS) The native file system of Windows NT.
  • nuclear isomer — isomer (def 2).
  • numa pompilius — died 673? b.c, 2nd legendary Sabine king of Rome 715–673?
  • numismatically — Of or relating to coins or currency.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?