15-letter words containing m, o, n, a
- make no mistake — believe me, let me assure you
- make nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- make one's mark — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- make one's move — to pass from one place or position to another.
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- malassimilation — imperfect incorporation of nutrients into body tissue.
- malayan camphor — borneol.
- malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
- man in the moon — a fancied semblance of a human face in the disk of the full moon, so perceived because of variations in the moon's topography.
- man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- man of the hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- man-o'-war bird — frigate bird.
- man-of-war bird — frigate bird.
- man-of-war fish — a small, tropical fish, Nomeus gronovii, that lives among the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war.
- managed economy — an economy in which the government allocates prices of goods and resources
- managing editor — an editor assigned to the supervision and coordination of certain editorial activities of a newspaper, magazine, book publishing company, or the like. Abbreviation: M.E., m.e.
- mandarin collar — a narrow, stand-up collar, not quite meeting at the front.
- mandarin orange — mandarin (def 4).
- manganese oxide — a type of metallic oxide used to colour glass purple
- manila envelope — a large, usually brown, envelope, designed to carry documents without them having to be folded
- mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- manorial system — manorialism.
- manubial column — a triumphal column decorated with spoils of the enemy.
- manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
- māori battalion — the Māori unit of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II
- marathon runner — person who runs in a marathon race
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- marcus antonius — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
- marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
- margin of error — statistics: variance
- marginalisation — (British) alternative spelling of marginalization.
- marginalization — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- mariano vallejo — César [Spanish se-sahr] /Spanish ˈsɛ sɑr/ (Show IPA), 1895–1938, Peruvian poet.
- marigold window — wheel window.
- marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
- marsh andromeda — a low-growing pink-flowered ericaceous evergreen shrub, Andromeda polifolia, that grows in peaty bogs of northern regions
- masculinization — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- materialisation — Alternative spelling of materialization.
- materialization — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- mathematization — The process of mathematizing.
- matron of honor — a married woman acting as the principal attendant of the bride at a wedding.
- maxilloturbinal — (anatomy) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
- meadow nematode — any of numerous parasitic nematodes of the genus Pratylenchus that infest and destroy the roots of plants.
- meals on wheels — a program, usually one supported or subsidized by a charitable, social, or government agency, for delivering hot meals regularly to elderly, disabled, or convalescing persons who are housebound and cannot cook for themselves.