15-letter words containing m, o, n, t, u, s
- dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
- disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- domain squatter — (web) An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
- doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
- fifth columnist — A fifth columnist is someone who secretly supports and helps the enemies of the country or organization they are in.
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
- from sun to sun — from sunrise to sunset
- gesta romanorum — a popular collection of tales in Latin with moral applications, compiled in the late 13th century as a manual for preachers
- get one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- gnome computers — (company) A small UK hardware and software company. They make transputer boards for the Acorn Archimedes among other things. E-mail: Chris Stenton <[email protected]>.
- gnu mirror site — GNU archive site
- gram's solution — (sometimes lowercase) a solution of iodine, potassium iodide, and water, used in staining bacteria.
- green mountains — a mountain range in E North America, extending from Canada through Vermont into W Massachusetts: part of the Appalachian system. Highest peak: Mount Mansfield, 1338 m (4393 ft)
- ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
- 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.
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
- immunohistology — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
- immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
- immunostimulant — (immunology, pharmacology) Any substance that stimulates an immune response.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
- isoimmunization — the development of isoantibodies within an individual in order to protect against antigens derived from a different member of the same species
- 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
- jus postliminii — postliminy.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- marcus antonius — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
- 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.
- 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.
- meritoriousness — The property of being meritorious.
- miniaturisation — Alternative spelling of miniaturization.