15-letter words containing m, o, n, e, s, t
- honeymoon suite — a luxurious suite in a hotel designed for honeymooners
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
- hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.
- horner's method — a technique, involving successive substitutions, for approximating the real roots of an equation with real coefficients.
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- ignition system — the system in an internal-combustion engine that produces the spark to ignite the mixture of fuel and air: includes the battery, ignition coil, distributor, spark plugs, and associated switches and wiring.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
- immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
- implementations — Plural form of implementation.
- implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- impressionistic — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in the midst of — amid, among
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- inhomogeneities — lack of homogeneity.
- inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
- instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
- intercomparison — mutual comparison
- interferometers — Plural form of interferometer.
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
- interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
- 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 bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
- isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- junior minister — politics
- kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
- keystone comedy — a short film of the silent era, often featuring the Keystone Kops.
- leptomeningitis — (pathology) inflammation of the leptomeninges.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
- loan investment — a loan made as an investment
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- make no mistake — believe me, let me assure you
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
- manorial system — manorialism.
- materialisation — Alternative spelling of materialization.
- mean solar time — time measured by the hour angle of the mean sun.
- means to an end — method of achieving sth
- meantone system — a system for tuning keyboard instruments, used before the development of tuning by equal temperament and considered practical only for tonalities of not more than two sharps or flats.
- measurement ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.