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16-letter words containing m, i, s, o

  • mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
  • minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • mint is not trac — (text, tool)   (MINT) A version of TRAC used as the extension language in the Freemacs editor.
  • miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
  • misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
  • misapprehensions — Plural form of misapprehension.
  • misappropriating — Present participle of misappropriate.
  • misappropriation — to put to a wrong use.
  • miscommunication — Failure to communicate adequately.
  • miscomprehension — the act or process of comprehending.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • misconstructions — Plural form of misconstruction.
  • misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
  • mispronunciation — (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
  • miss one's guess — to fail to guess or predict accurately
  • mission-critical — essential for a project to launch
  • missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
  • misspecification — An incorrect specification.
  • mistletoe cactus — a tropical, branched cactus, Rhipsalis baccifera (or cassutha), having cylindrical stems and mistletoelike fruit.
  • mistranscription — the act or process of transcribing.
  • mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
  • modern synthesis — a consolidation of the results of various lines of investigation from the 1920s through the 1950s that supported and reconciled the Darwinian theory of evolution and the Mendelian laws of inheritance in terms of natural selection acting on genetic variation.
  • modified-release — denoting a formulation of a medicinal drug taken orally that releases the active ingredients over several hours, in order to maintain a relatively constant plasma concentration of the drug
  • monkey's wedding — a combination of sunshine and light rain
  • monohybrid cross — the offspring of individuals that differ with respect to a particular gene pair.
  • monoline insurer — insurer who pays the principal and interest on a bond in the event of a default
  • monopolistically — In a monopolistic manner.
  • monosyllabically — In single syllables.
  • monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
  • monotransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being monotransitive.
  • montes apenninus — a mountain range in the first and second quadrants of the visible face of the moon, forming the SE border of Mare Imbrium: about 600 miles (970 km) long.
  • moral philosophy — philosophy dealing with the principles of morality; ethics.
  • morning sickness — nausea occurring in the early part of the day, especially as a characteristic symptom in the first months of pregnancy.
  • morphophysiology — The (study of the) biological interrelationship between form and physiological function.
  • morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
  • mos technologies — MOS Technology
  • mosquito netting — netting used in the making of mosquito nets.
  • most wanted list — an actual or supposed listing of the names of persons who are urgently being sought for a specific reason, as apprehension for an alleged crime.
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
  • mount kosciuszko — a mountain in Australia, in SE New South Wales in the Australian Alps: the highest peak in Australia. Height: 2230 m (7316 ft)
  • mount washington — a mountain in N New Hampshire, in the White Mountains: the highest peak in the northeast US; noted for extreme weather conditions. Height: 1917 m (6288 ft)
  • mourne mountains — a mountain range in SE Northern Ireland. Highest peak: Slieve Donard, 853 m (2798 ft)
  • mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
  • mousseline sauce — a light sauce, made by adding whipped cream or egg whites to hollandaise sauce
  • movies on demand — Movies on demand is a service that allows you to choose and watch a movie on your television.
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
  • multinationalism — a large corporation with operations and subsidiaries in several countries.
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