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16-letter words containing m, o, n, e, y, c

  • hemolytic anemia — an anemic condition characterized by the destruction of red blood cells: seen in some drug reactions and in certain infectious and hereditary disorders.
  • honeymoon couple — a newly-married couple who are on their honeymoon
  • hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
  • hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
  • immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
  • immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
  • incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • intramolecularly — In an intramolecular manner; within a molecule.
  • limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
  • limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
  • magnetic anomaly — a departure from the normal magnetic field of the earth.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • mechanochemistry — the field of chemistry that deals with the direct conversion of chemical into mechanical energy.
  • megalomaniacally — In a megalomaniacal manner.
  • meningomyelocele — (medicine) A congenital defect of the central nervous system of infants in which membranes and the spinal cord protrude through an opening or defect in the vertebral column.
  • microcrystalline — minutely crystalline; composed of microscopic crystals.
  • minority carrier — the entity responsible for carrying the lesser part of the current in a semiconductor
  • mnemotechnically — In a mnemotechnic manner; using mnemotechny.
  • money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
  • monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
  • monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
  • monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
  • monterey cypress — a tree, Cupressus macrocarpa, of southern California, being pyramid-shaped in youth, but spreading in age: occurs naturally in only two groves on the coast of Monterey County, California, but is cultivated extensively.
  • montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
  • mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
  • myelomeningocele — (pathology) A form of spina bifida characterized by protrusion of the spinal meninges.
  • non-contemporary — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
  • onomatopoeically — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
  • opening ceremony — a ceremony held in celebration of the start of something
  • overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • policy statement — a declaration of the plans and intentions of an organization or government
  • primary consumer — (in the food chain) an animal that feeds on plants; a herbivore.
  • primary election — primary (def 15a).
  • primary electron — in thermionics, any of the electrons falling on a body, distinguished from those emitted by it
  • proboscis monkey — a reddish, arboreal monkey, Nasalis larvatus, of Borneo, the male of which has a long, flexible nose: an endangered species.
  • property company — a business that makes money by buying, selling, and renting out land and houses
  • protection money — law: criminal fee
  • pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • redundancy money — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • secondary modern — Secondary moderns were schools which existed until recently in Britain for children aged between about eleven and sixteen, where more attention was paid to practical skills and less to academic study than in a grammar school.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • self-complacency — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
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