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14-letter words containing m, o, n, t, u, s

  • monounsaturate — a monounsaturated fat or fatty acid, as olive oil.
  • motor industry — the manufacturers of cars viewed as a sector
  • mount pleasant — a city in central Michigan.
  • mount prospect — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • mount rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
  • mountain avens — either of two trailing evergreen white-flowered rosaceous shrubs of the genus Dryas that grow on mountains in N temperate regions and in the Arctic
  • mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
  • mountain state — any of the eight states of the W U.S. through which the Rocky Mountains pass; Mont., Ida., Wyo., Nev., Utah, Colo., Ariz., or N.Mex.
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • multinationals — Plural form of multinational.
  • multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
  • munitions dump — a place where munitions are stored
  • musca volitans — floater (def 6).
  • musicalization — the adaptation of a novel, play, etc into a musical form
  • muster station — the place on a ship where passengers should assemble in the event of an emergency
  • mutton snapper — a snapper, Lutjanus analis, inhabiting the warmer parts of the western Atlantic Ocean, valued as food and game.
  • mysteriousness — full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence.
  • neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
  • nervous system — the system of nerves and nerve centers in an animal or human, including the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and ganglia.
  • neuroanatomist — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
  • neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
  • neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
  • neurocomputers — Plural form of neurocomputer.
  • neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
  • non-assumptive — taken for granted.
  • non-autonomous — Government. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only. pertaining to an autonomy, or a self-governing community.
  • non-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • non-customized — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
  • non-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • 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.
  • nonconsumption — the refusal to consume certain foods
  • nonconsumptive — not consumptive of a resource, product, or service
  • nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • nursing mother — a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
  • obstructionism — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
  • odontoglossums — Plural form of odontoglossum.
  • old-man cactus — a Mexican cactus, Cephalocereus senilis, having a columnar body from 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) high with thatchlike, long, white hairs on the top, and red flowers with white centers.
  • olympus, mount — mountain in N Greece, between Thessaly & Macedonia: c. 9,580 ft (2,920 m): in Greek mythology, the home of the gods
  • osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
  • outer garments — the garments that are worn over a person's other clothes
  • overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
  • overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
  • plymouth sound — an inlet of the English Channel in SW Devon, SW England
  • pneumonologist — an expert or specialist in the respiratory system
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
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